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Alabama Governor Comes Out Swinging For Confederate Memorials
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey unveiled a campaign ad Tuesday championing a bill she signed in 2017 that bars local municipalities from removing Confederate statues.
“When special interests wanted to tear down our historical monuments, I said, ‘No!’ and signed a law to protect them,” Ivey, a Republican, said in the ad. “We can’t change or erase our history, but here in Alabama we know something Washington doesn’t: To get where we are going, we have to understand where we’ve been.”
Ivey took over in 2017 for shamed former GOP Gov. Robert Bentley, who was found guilty of campaign finance violations.
Ivey signed a law in 2017 that requires local governments to obtain permission from the state in order to change the names of any public schools or remove Confederate monuments that have been in place for 40 years or more.
Ivey faces three Republican challengers for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. The governor skipped the first debate last week and plans to skip a debate scheduled Wednesday evening.
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