RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some General Assembly members say it’s time North Carolina native Rev. Billy Graham is honored with a statue inside the U.S. Capitol. His likeness would replace a statue remembering a former governor with links to the white supremacy movement over a century ago.
Bills filed in the House and Senate last week ask a congressional committee to approve the replacement of the statue of former Gov. Charles Aycock for one of Graham, the Charlotte-born evangelist now living in Montreat.
Each state gets two statues inside Statuary Hall. Federal law allows states to request changes.
Aycock was governor from 1901 to 1905 and a fierce advocate of universal public education. But the Democrat also backed segregation and used racial fears during a campaign against Republicans and populists in the late 1890s.
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…as long as it’s a bust in a urinal…
Make it portable so all the public bathrooms can have a go at it.
There is a bust of Jefferson Davis in the Capital building, just in case we already didn’t know that lawmakers were dicks.
No! No! Hell, no!
Along with a bust of Cheech and Chong?
How about one of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from NC? William Hooper, Joseph Hewes or John Penn?
Billy Graham? Not so much.