Charlottesville City Council appropriates $1 million for removal of Confederate statues
Charlottesville is one step closer to removing its Confederate statues.
The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday during a special meeting to appropriate $1 million for removal, storage and/or covering of the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, as well as one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacagawea.
The $1 million will come from the city’s Capital Improvement Program Contingency Fund.
“This is just putting funding in place so that we can either remove, store or cover any or all of the three statues … Any type of permanent dispossession, transfer of ownership or otherwise, would have to come back to you as a council for approval and a vote,” said City Manager Chip Boyles.
The council has not yet decided if the statues will be demolished or relocated.
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It was a bold move by the city council. 
Despite the bad publicity of those marchers ("very fine people on both sides" 
), they were outsiders, not from folks from Charlottesville.
Even the area's Airbnb's cancelled bookings when they learned that they were being used by racists at the rally.
John Grisham and Sissy Spacek live in there...and UVa (my son's undergrad alma mater) is in Charlottesville.
However, I think you can find racist wingers in the outlying areas.
