Senate Democrats aren’t just looking to remove statues honoring Confederate leaders from Capitol Square. They want to decide what to do with Confederate statues that have already been removed from public spaces and put into storage.
The Senate Finance & Appropriations Committee voted 9-5 on Wednesday morning to adopt Senate Bill 636, proposed by Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, to direct the removal of statues honoring Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Civil War-era Gov. William “Extra Billy” Smith and wartime surgeon Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire from Capitol Square.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
