Helena officials open to discussing Confederate fountain's fate

[TexasTowelie]

Helena city officials said they were open to discussing the fate of a displaced Confederate monument, after the leader of the group that donated the water fountain again expressed support for moving it out of the Queen City.

However, discussions were halted at the Oct. 13 Helena City Commission meeting when one commissioner said she was uncomfortable talking about it until it came back to the panel as an agenda item.

Jewell Wellborn, president of the Margaret Howell Davis Hayes Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, spoke to the commission and repeated a request to relocate the fountain that was removed from a city park in 2017.

“It is our desire to remove the statue from Montana and move it to another location, where we have several statues that are basically displaced,” she said.

Read more: https://helenair.com/news/local/helena-officials-open-to-discussing-confederate-fountains-fate/article_f6b39249-5959-5dcb-8517-5eb57ba127e4.html
(Helena Independent Record)


The then 101-year-old UDC Confederate Memorial Fountain that had been in Helena's Hill Park was removed in 2017 due to racial concerns after a woman had been killed at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Thom Bridge, Independent Record

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Yaknow, Montana wasn't even a territory until after the Civil War started...

and never had more than 20% or so of Southerners living there.

But they were LOUD Southerners and caused no end of trouble even after it became a state.

So fuck 'em and move the thing to the local dump.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Send the Daughters of the Confederacy a bill

for storing their toilet with a bidet on city property for over a century.