Assembly debates nixing Confederate names (CA)
JUNE 27, 2016 4:39 PM
BY JEREMY B. WHITE
... Assembly members on Monday spent a fervent few minutes debating and then passing a resolution that would urge Congress and the president to strip the names of Confederate leaders from federal buildings, roads and other pieces of property.
The author of the resolution, Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, last year pushed a bill to erase Confederate place names in California that could have renamed Fort Bragg, a tiny town on the northern California coast that’s known more for its beach of polished glass fragments than for being named after General Braxton Bragg. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Glazer’s bill, calling it “an issue quintessentially for local decision makers.”
... “By continuing to honor confederate leaders who fought against our country to defend the institution of slavery,” said Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, “we perpetuate a long flirtation in this nation with a selective, I would say abjectly false, nostalgia” ...
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article86314817.html
