NC GOP leaders don't want Confederate statues moved
Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press
Updated 6:45 pm, Thursday, September 21, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Thursday pressed a state panel not to grant Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's request to relocate Confederate monuments from the old Capitol grounds, with one leader predicting that any such approval would be overturned in court.
Two dozen House GOP leaders sent a memo to the North Carolina Historical Commission on the day before the panel is to meet to consider the Cooper administration's petition to move three monuments to the Bentonville Battlefield, a Civil War site 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Raleigh.
Senate leader Phil Berger also copied commission members with his own letter to Cooper asking the governor to withdraw his request, saying the proposal has many problems and the commission lacks authority to grant it ...
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