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Buccaneers join Rays in supporting removal of Confederate monument
TAMPA — Make that two local professional sports teams that want to see Tampa’s Confederate monument moved.
Responding to a question from the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers said in statement: “We support the removal of the Confederate memorial.”
“We do not believe it is a true and accurate depiction of the values that make Tampa such a great, progressive city,” the statement said.
The Buccaneers are now aligned on the issue with the Tampa Bay Rays, which last week also said the organization was “supportive of its removal from the courthouse.”
Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Lightning declined to weigh in on the controversy, saying the decision, “should rest with the county commissioners that have been elected to represent us and our county.”
(The Times asked the region’s three professional sports teams about the monument last week, however, the Buccaneers’ offices were closed for the holiday. The team responded to the inquiry Wednesday night.)
An effort to remove the Confederate statue, called Memoria in Aeterna, was defeated by one vote last month by the Hillsborough County Commission. But Commissioner Les Miller said he will bring it up again at the next meeting on Wednesday…
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