Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday that a statue of Jefferson Davis, the Civil War president of the Confederate States, should be removed from the Kentucky state capitol.
McConnell’s suggestion comes after politicians in other states considered removing the Confederate symbols from state capitol grounds after last week’s mass shooting in Charleston, S.C., which appeared to have been racially motivated.
“With regard to my own state, we curiously enough have a statue of Jefferson Davis in the capitol in Frankfort,” McConnell said at a Senate news conference. “Davis’ sole connection to Kentucky was he was born there, he subsequently moved to Mississippi. And Kentucky of course did not secede from the union.”
McConnell took issue with “the appropriateness of continuing to have Jefferson Davis’ statue in a very prominent place in our state capitol.”
He suggested that perhaps “a better place for that would be the Kentucky History Museum, which is also in the state capital.”
Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin earlier Tuesday released a statement saying that removing the Davis statue would be “appropriate,” according to Bloomberg Politics.
Watch the video below, from television station WKYT:
The racist-cochroaches are now scurrying for the darkness under the refrigerator as fast as their little legs can carry them as the light of truth shines upon them.
Time for the RAID.
Uuuuhhh yup, that sure… seems like the way things are goin’… Seems like… a good mooove…
-Yertle the Senator
He’s exactly right. Those are words I don’t think I have ever used to describe anything the turtle has ever said, nor are they words I will likely ever use again in the future in regards to a McConnell statement.
The heat is on. So …
The turtle and all other cold-blooded creatures take on the temperature of their surroundings. They are hot when it is hot and cold when it is cold. They will change their environment to help regulate their temperature.
Republicans accusing the President of leading from behind rush to lead from behind.