[MD] Leggett wants Rockville statue of Rebel soldier off lawn near courthouse

Washington Post ^ | 7/17/15 | Bill Turque

[markomalley]

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett stepped into the national debate over symbols of the Confederacy on Friday, saying that he has ordered a 102-year-old bronze statue of a Confederate soldier removed from the lawn next to Rockville’s Red Brick Courthouse.

Leggett (D) had been staying out of a community discussion over the Montgomery County Confederate Monument, sparked by the movement to remove the Rebel battle flag from South Carolina’s state capitol grounds.

Last week, he said he wanted to hear various points of view on the statue, and the Rockville City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing Monday evening. In addition, County Council President George L. Leventhal (D-At Large) has asked his staff to put together a private meeting of stakeholders — without elected officials present — so they could freely exchange views.

But on Friday, Leggett, who was the first African American to serve on the Montgomery County Council and be elected county executive, sounded adamant.

“I decided we’re going to remove it, period,” he said, adding that he has David Dise, director of the county’s General Services Department, to develop a plan for moving and storing the monument, which was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

[TXnMA]

Isaiah Leggett:

Surprise, surprise...

[JimRed]

Put a lawn jockey there instead.

[DPMD]

And I want the idiot congresswoman from Houston to stop strutting her offensive Confederate surname in front of the congressional black communists, sheila jackson whatsis.

[John S Mosby]

Absolutely and funded by front groups for them, supplied with our tax funds under some other title. You can bank on that. This is pure unadulterated marxism— using the bankers of the Left.

[John S Mosby]

Indeed— one can very easily visualize black liberation theology based “national” socialism— key element socialism door opener using the CPUSA playbook to hype race division to divide our Republic.

Black “Na”zis..and their white guilt liberal fellow travelers... to coin a meme.

[John S Mosby]

Fear. Pure and simple. Stand up, America. Without fear- and we will find how many of the “coerced” actuators of what they really do not believe— will turn against the apparat and the the thugs in the fedgov, and their enablers.

We are quite large in number, people of all persuasions and lovers of freedom. We cannot be “pigeonholed” by the police state paid dogs— because we are real Americans— of all colors and desirous of personal freedom and removal of oppression of the Progressives and Statists.