But at a press conference on Tuesday, in the midst of a national debate over the propriety of Confederate images, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell identified one place where Davis shouldn't be: the Capitol building in his home state of Kentucky. A statue of Davis stands alongside former President Abraham Lincoln—his Civil War adversary—and other Kentucky-born leaders.
After last week's deadly shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, images emerged of the suspected gunman's affinity for the Confederate flag, spurring debate over whether the Confederate symbol should be represented on state property. According to reporters at the news conference, McConnell said that a "more appropriate" location for the Davis statue would be a state museum. This week, McConnell expressed support for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's call to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in Columbia.
This isn't the first time that Davis's place of honor in the Kentucky Capitol has been questioned. Earlier Tuesday, a Kentucky gubernatorial candidate called for its removal, and last year, a former state treasurer started an online petition to replace Davis's statue with a memorial to boxer Muhammed Ali, who was born in Louisville.
"Every day, Americans of all political stripes are working to transcend the scars left by slavery and its aftermath," the former treasurer, Jonathan Miller, wrote in a blog post in November. "And every day, walking through our Commonwealth's cathedral, our most important citizens—from the officials who lead the state, to the schoolchildren who visit our capital—pass by the white statue that daily pours salt into our nation's deepest wound. … Jefferson Davis, it's time for you to go."
McConnell is a POS....FUMM
Soooo…. when everyone jumps on the bandwagon to ban guns and repeal the Second Amendment - I wonder how fast that will blow through the country?
We have no idea what is about to happen to us.
I’d much rather lose Mitch and the GOP bandwagoneers.
These guys are f***in’ worthless.
The GOP is in FULL retreat nationwide.....which is why the national election for president in 16 is already over.
Mitch McDumbo, you belong in a museum, not in the senate as majority leader. You are a buffoon.
Just wait ‘til they find out we have a Jefferson Davis Parish in Louisiana.
“A statue of Davis stands alongside former President Abraham Lincoln—his Civil War adversary”
As a symbol of f***ing reconciliation, you frigging son of a Mitch! Kentucky stayed with the Union and had zero reason to ever have the stature there if it was really that horrid.
Again, another MISSED opportunity by a so-called Republican to bring up the fact the DEMS are the party of slavery, racism, the Confederacy, etc.
COWARDS! I’m done with the GOP. Forever. FU trolls that will argue they aren’t as bad as the libs. Get mental help, they are just as bad or worse.
It’s time for Mitch to go, too. What next, will we have only five flags over Texas?
Interesting since Kentucky was a border state. As was Maryland and Missouri, slave states that remained in the Union during the War of Secession.
Reason #569,743 why I’m no longer registered as a Republican.
The GOP are such eunuchs they never say a word about Sheets Byrd:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?201172-1/senator-byrd-portrait-unveiling
I’m a Pennsylvania yankee and even I say let the statue stay. It’s not racist, it’s a part of southern history.
I think today is the day I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion I can never vote GOP again. I used to think I’d at least support some tea-party guys and whatnot, but the GOP has just become too much to stomach, with this insane parade of GOP-er’s lining up with the Leftist Nazis and spitting in my face.
So what is the argument? Jeff Davis WAS Secretary of War for the USA, and Kentucky was NEVER a part of the Confederacy.
KR to Mitch : BUG OFF!
If so.. Then why is mitch just now bringing it up? Was the statue ok a week ago, a year ago, a decade ago?
Now there going after the memorials.