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Newly-elected Jacksonville mayor sets aside $500K to remove Confederate statue
NY Post ^ | 07/24/2023 | Selim Algar

Posted on 07/24/2023 10:43:53 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The newly-elected mayor of Jacksonville has allocated $500,000 in the Florida city’s budget to remove a monument dedicated to women who lost loved ones serving in the Confederate army.

Donna Deegan — a progressive Democrat who toppled her Republican opponent in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ backyard — had pledged to topple the monument and lined up the dollars to do so.

“We are looking at all potential options and Mayor Deegan remains committed to removing the Springfield Park monument,” her spokesperson, Philip Perry, tweeted.

Erected in 1915, the monument is one of the last Confederate memorials remaining in Jacksonville, the nation’s largest city in terms of contiguous land mass.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: confederate; jacksonville; mayor; statue
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another radical commie, America hater. What the hell is the matter with those people in Jacksonville? $500k to remove a statue? Sounds to me like it’s the Confederates who are getting the last laugh at this ditzy bimbo and her sheep.


21 posted on 07/24/2023 11:17:23 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And she wants to change the name of the city from Jacksonville to Jackassvile!


22 posted on 07/24/2023 11:18:35 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: DiogenesLamp

Not in the slightest.

If someone doesn’t like a book they shouldn’t read it. Unless it is a parent in regards to what THEIR children read, they should STFU in any other cases.

It’s none of my business what other people read, listen to, or look at, period.


23 posted on 07/24/2023 11:19:06 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: V_TWIN

Her “claim to fame” is she’s an ex news reader on a local NBC affiliate that divorced her sportscaster husband on the same station and immediately took up with the weatherman on the same channel....with children getting caught up in the middle of all that


That is a hilarious story. Her daddy was a mayor of Jax and long time power broker here. That surely helped her win this time around.


24 posted on 07/24/2023 11:29:48 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Just tell her the city is named after Stonewall and not Andrew.

Watch her head explode.


25 posted on 07/24/2023 11:31:47 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes because grieving wives and mothers are so racist. That was clearly the message here.

This is the same slut who got caught porking weatherman Tim Deegan in his van in the parking lot of the news station where she AND HER HUSBAND worked at the time. He had the good sense to divorce the skank. Too bad all the newcomers to my hometown did not have the good sense to avoid voting for this disgusting hag.


26 posted on 07/24/2023 11:42:39 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

He divorced her after she was caught screwing the weather guy. They didn’t even have the decency to go somewhere else to do it. They were caught in flagrante porking in his van in the parking lot.

The whole city knew about it.


27 posted on 07/24/2023 11:44:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

Yikes! Not even Laz


28 posted on 07/24/2023 11:44:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So many mentally impaired people in leadership positions these days. The Democrat way.


29 posted on 07/24/2023 11:47:54 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Jacksonville has gone way down hill over the past 20 years. Shows how bad it is when a Navy town goes liberal.

Used to go to NAS Jax many times over the years for work and it’s just a shxthole now.


30 posted on 07/24/2023 11:57:04 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deegan was born Donna Elizabeth Hazouri on February 28, 1961. She has Lebanese ancestry through her father.[5] Deegan’s great-great grandfather immigrated from Lebanon circa 1905.[6] Deegan was raised on the south side of Jacksonville and graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1979.

She attended Florida State University and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in communications.[3] She is the cousin of former Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri, who served from 1987 to 1991.[1][7]


31 posted on 07/24/2023 11:58:00 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
I'm definitely not seeing being easy on the eyes...


32 posted on 07/24/2023 11:59:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: V_TWIN

Typical leftist hag....
Lines on her face from too any lines on the table...


33 posted on 07/24/2023 11:59:35 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: rktman

You pressure wash off that 1/2 inch of makeup there’s no telling what you’ll find


34 posted on 07/24/2023 11:59:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bitch.


35 posted on 07/24/2023 12:00:45 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: maddog55

One of her campaign ads was shot outside in the sun.......her skin looked like one of Johnny Bench’s old catchers mitts.


36 posted on 07/24/2023 12:02:07 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: lodi90

She was a catholic school girl......the promiscuity was so predictable its almost cliché.


37 posted on 07/24/2023 12:03:51 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: euram

You find anything about political experience?......nope


38 posted on 07/24/2023 12:05:57 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Looks older than 61 — too much Florida sun.


39 posted on 07/24/2023 12:07:01 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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To: V_TWIN

“Why...I remember her voice from the local news! easy on the eyes”...said a Jacksonville blind man.


40 posted on 07/24/2023 12:12:10 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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