Top House Republican threatens to cut funding to states, cities that don't protect statues

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS JULY 16, 2020 / 12:58 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Top House Republican threatens to cut funding to states, cities that don't protect statues

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Thursday that would cut federal aid to state and local governments if they do not protect statues, after protesters attacked monuments to people who owned slaves or fought for the Confederacy.

“It is wrong to erase our history,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement, criticizing “left-wing mobs” who have attacked statues across the United States.

Under his bill, introduced with fellow Republican Representatives Jim Jordan and Sam Graves, some federal funds would be withheld if local governments do not “restore order or arrest rioters.”

During national - and international - protests against racial injustice sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May some demonstrators have taken down or vandalized statues of historical figures such as Robert E. Lee, who led Confederate troops against the United States, and Christopher Columbus.

Republican President Donald Trump, who is campaigning for re-election in November, has harshly criticized such protesters, and criticized U.S. lawmakers who want to remove monuments to those who owned slaves and fought against U.S. forces in the 1860s Civil War.

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[lagomorph777]

1. Protect racist statues but kill your children.

What a brilliant campaign.

[jaysunb]

2. LOL ! With what money ?

[lagomorph777]

9. With what votes? Minority leader.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

3. Jesus Fucking Christ

We've got 140,000 people dead because of Trump's negligence and these fuckers are focused on protecting statues of racist white people.

[Nevilledog]

4. Okay....defund police bad, defund schools and states & cities over statues good

[no_hypocrisy]

5. A minority leader is going to tell the Democratic Speaker of the House how to spend

federal money?

[Grins]

8. Jebus, yes...

Do they even understand that they are in the MINORITY?

This is just noise to rally-up the bigots and imbeciles that make up “the base”.

[gratuitous]

6. This is the empty threat by which all other empty threats are measured

Take a flying leap at a rolling donut, Kevin.

[DBoon]

7. If I put up a statue of Karl Marx, will this bill protect it?

Or does it just protect confederate leaders and KKK founders?

[Sherman A1]

10. Did he forget that

he is in the minority????

[GoCubsGo]

11. Good luck getting that passed, asshole.

Hell, I doubt Nancy Pelosi will even allow that bullshit to reach the floor.

[redstatebluegirl]

12. Another diversion!

Covid 19 is what we need to focus on.

[struggle4progress]

13. "My constituents want me to protect California's confederate monuments!"

[dalton99a]

17. +1. California's heritage

[dalton99a]

14. Somebody ought to tell Kevin to sit down and shut his mouth

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Another Freedumb Caucus Buffoon

They wielded a modest amount of actual clout when they were in the majority.
McCarthy has not figured out that modest clout becomes irrelevance when in the minority.

[malaise]

19. I was writing my reply when you responded

Just the truth

[struggle4progress]

16. A fitting end to the last Confederate monument in Southern California

By CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
JULY 8, 20208 AM

... The memorial had been placed along Highway 99 near Bakersfield almost 80 years ago by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose specialty was sponsoring monuments to white supremacy across the nation. The unassuming commemorative plaque was part of a bizarre plan to celebrate Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States, as “Father of National Highways.”

Three weeks ago, the 800-pound marker was hauled off to a weedy outdoor storage area and fenced off from public view behind the Kern County Museum ...

In Bakersfield, the circular concrete marker with a simple bronze plaque was dedicated on Oct. 14, 1942. (Just 10 days earlier, the notorious Nazi Hermann Göring, director of Germany’s Jewish slave camps, declared that World War II should be called the War of the Races.) The Southern California highway project was led by the UDC’s local Mildred Lee Chapter 1580, named for the sister of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The marker’s original location is unknown. But in 1968, when the state expanded Highway 99 to create a modern automotive spine for the Central Valley, it was dug up and moved to the sprawling grounds of the Kern County Museum. For the next half-century it sat in a flower bed in an employee parking lot ...

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-07-08/last-confederate-monument-southern-california

[malaise]

18. Kevin even though you wanted to change the name from Minority Leader

that is what you fucking are - you have no fucking say in matters funding - Nancy has her boots on your fucking neck.

GoyAway Kevin! GoyAway ReTHUGs, GoyAwayDon the Con!

[LonePirate]

20. Somebody needs to ask him why he supports traitors and enemies of America.

The press needs to start throwing their bullshit back in their faces.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. Kevin,shut the f up and sit down!

Before the Speaker has to spank your sorry ass.

[MiniMe]

22. Hate to tell you this Kevin, but you have absolutely no power to do that.

The Democrats control the house, therefor the funding.