Florida Daughters of the Confederacy president supports statue move
TAMPA (FOX 13) – The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument outside the old Tampa courthouse all the way back in 1911. Now, that statue has triggered a firestorm, and the Florida president of the UDC says she favors moving Confederate monuments off of government land in the interest of bringing people together.
Ginger Rudiger, the president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Florida Division, said she is not authorized to speak for the group. But she agreed to share her own opinions in an interview with FOX 13.
“Remove them (Confederate monuments) from public display of places and put them in cemeteries or let them be moved to veterans’ parks, or private parks or private lands. I’m all for that,” said Rudiger. “If it’s on public property and because of the issue of slavery, and because we’ve had so many years in our country of unfairness in this country to minority groups, why not relocate these to places where they can be given the respect they deserve for veteran service?”…
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