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onetexan

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16. Aww a kitty! Wonderful u're able to get around well & have a new friend. I gather you're a SW U alum

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #14)

Sat Sep 12, 2020, 03:11 PM

Sep 2020

Georgetown's old downtown is lovely as ever and fun to stroll around. But it's expanding with new growth and lots of new homes, same as RR, Cedar Park, Leander & other cities around. That confed statue - a reminder of a dark past - just needs to go.

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Charlottesville taking down Confederate statue near the site of violent Unite the Right rally [View all] Maeve Sep 2020 OP

From the article: appalachiablue Sep 2020 #1

Saw the breaking on this! BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #2

Bravo hot2na Sep 2020 #3

Update - they confirmed the statue is affixed to the capstone (which itself weighs 1300lbs) BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #4

And the shit is off the momument BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #5

Bravo! There is one in Georgetown, Tx near me. Dems have succeeded in getting it moved onetexan Sep 2020 #6

I hadn't read that they were taking the statue down at the Square. TexasTowelie Sep 2020 #9

Yes, a committee of 8 was appointed who decided 5/3 in favor of removing the statue onetexan Sep 2020 #13

Well, I'm staying busy filling out and scanning forms, doing physical therapy, and going to TexasTowelie Sep 2020 #14

Aww a kitty! Wonderful u're able to get around well & have a new friend. I gather you're a SW U alum onetexan Sep 2020 #16

Yes, I'm an alum from 1987 TexasTowelie Sep 2020 #17

How about melting it down if it is bronze? lonely bird Sep 2020 #10

Good riddance. nt iluvtennis Sep 2020 #7

We must ask ourselves why we have had so many statues and monuments to traitors for so many years dlk Sep 2020 #8

I'm so proud of my town. We survived an invasion of white supremacists and came out stronger than Nitram Sep 2020 #11

I have been watching the stream of this all day BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #15

What? No Proud Boys or white supremacists showed up to bash heads? RussBLib Sep 2020 #12

Update - the time capsule was recovered but had collapsed BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #18

sure took them long enough.. choie Sep 2020 #19