A member representing ta Union soldier and one representing the Sons of the Confederacy Brigade came out in full uniform to City Hall Tuesday to support keeping the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Washington Park where it was placed years after it had been donated to the city by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926.
It was defaced by anti-Monument protesters in September 2017.
But there was also a contingent of anti-monument protesters who came out in the freezing, blustery weather to listen as the results of the survey taken by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. The results showed that those wanting the stone removed to a museum and away from its perch at Washington Park and those who wanted it removed altogether outnumbered those who want it kept there.
A lesser number wanted it moved to Veterans Park next to the Main Library on Central Blvd.
Since the report was merely to acknowledge and discuss, no action could be taken.
"I think we need a little time to digest this survey," Mayor Tony Martinez told the audience and thanked those attending for their presence.
"I'd rather have people make their impassioned opinions than not to have their hats in the ring at all," he said.
The commissioners did not set a date for the consideration and action to vote on the issue.
13 comments:
Spineless. The data should have sufficed. People have been saying it over and over again too. The Rock is over.
Get rid of Cesar (racist & big mouth)Deleon and pot head (ben Neece).
Queer City
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Tell those idiots to shower; they look absolutely disgusting, dirty and unkempt.
The Parks and Recreation Board meeting was a farce. The City Commission punted the ball over there to let folks blow off steam there and not waste Commission time. The numbers on each side is just a reflection of how hard the two sides worked to get out their adherents. Everybody knows that 99.5% of the Brownsville citizens don't care whether the rock goes or stays. It is only an issue to a few.
The Commission will now just sit on the matter and let the issue blow over and then do whatever the rich and powerful want done, which is nothing. This whole thing is really a "tempest in a teapot".
Santa lives in Harlingen and the fake Apache lives in Edinburg.
NOBODY in state and national gov. cares about a ROCK that actually looks like it was taken from the zoo area.
Apparently, nobody in the local gov. cares or has the cojones to suggest a solution. If they had any, such a solution would have been done.
If the Cesar de Leon is such an important racial issue, Mr. Saenz and the D.A assistants SHOULD have sued (they ARE attorneys)or register a complaint to the mayor and city commission, minimum.
Commentators in this blog want De Leon and Neece's head, call them racist, pothead, BUT; HOW MANY TIMES have ANY of them gone to the microphone during a city commission meeting and say it to their face.
The mayor at Charlottsville covered up Lee's STATUE, and Brownsville mayor has done NOTHING to even cover a ROCK!
Citizens complain about our local government, we should just grab a mirror, look at the reflection and realize that we are one and the same.
Wow you mean I look like a gringo? You mean I can sit in front of the bus? pendejo
Leave the darn rock alone....the Bronze plaque should be replaced is all
Maybe a plaque remembering the poor little kids who lost their lives in house fires over the years.
Shameful living conditions in some areas haven't been improved in years.
Maybe all those nearly abandoned churches with tax exemptions could be opened up to low income safe housing.
On the left Georgetown ex-student!
When did the circus arrived in town?
You buy those belts at walmart for 6.99 plus tax. The white coat comes from the chicken farms in Lake Charles, La. Geronimo would never wear a confederate uniform. No injuns allowed.
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