Texas GOP Speaker Calls for Removal of Confederate Marker

[struggle4progress]

By The Associated Press
September 20, 2017 5:51 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A powerful Texas Republican is calling for the removal of a Confederate marker in the state Capitol that rejects slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War.

Republican House Speaker Joe Straus said Tuesday in a letter to state officials that the plaque is "blatantly inaccurate." He says Texans aren’t "well-served by incorrect information about our history."

The plaque titled “Children of the Confederacy Creed” was installed in 1959 ...

http://kfyo.com/texas-gop-speaker-calls-for-removal-of-confederate-marker/

[hibbing]

1. 1959, let that sink in n/t

[gratuitous]

2. Installed in 1959?

Gee, what historical significance could that year possibly have, 94 years after the end of the Civil War? 1959. What an odd year to install a blatantly inaccurate historical marker. I wonder if there's a reason besides historical remembrance for its placement that particular year?

[struggle4progress]

3. Here's the plaque

And, as counterpoint, here's the very clear 2 February 1861 "Declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union" adopted by the secession convention:

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html

[LeftInTX]

4. Joe Straus is a decent man

[Gothmog]

5. Yeah for Speaker Joe Staus

[Paladin]

6. Joe Straus is one of the few saving graces of TX politics. (nt)

[dalton99a]

7. Straus also killed the bathroom bill