Tag: Confederate Rest
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Lawsuit seeks return of Confederate Rest monument
Did not glorify the South’s Lost Cause. A Madison attorney is contesting the City of Madison’s removal of the memorial stone at Confederate Rest cemetery on 04-10-2018 (and reaffirmed on 05-11-2018) as a “desecration.” It was one of the city’s first me-too cancel culture victories, taken in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally…
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Madison school board’s chickens are roosting
Promote victimhood, get victimized Tony Gallli, dean of the Madison’s broadcast journalists at WKOW-TV27, asked our favorite candidate for Madison School Board Seat #4: Any concerns over using a live feed into the MMSD auditorium Monday evening to satisfy the Open Meetings requirement, as the school board met in a room closed to the public? …
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Madison council rewrites history
Descendants of Confederate Rest dead would have a strong legal claim to contest removal of grave marker they paid for and was accepted by the City of Madison Forest Hill Cemetery is a National Historical site. Landmark Commission chairman Stuart Levitan acknowledged that “five of the nine Secretary [of U.S. Department of the Interior] standards…
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Get the message? The world is full of victims! They’re everywhere!
Go Brewers! — Oh, is this Brewer bandwagon a fun ride! Guessing productivity suffered Monday in the upper Midwest but, here in Wisconsin, morale got a major boost. Beating the Cubs for the title? Priceless. Jesus Aguilar sent the right kind of message Sunday in Milwaukee: The Cubs should be very afraid. He was correct. We…
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Moral preening called out; Confederate Rest stone lives for another day
‘Hypocritical grandstanding’ Legendary Madison architect Kenton Peters put it to the chairman of the Landmarks Commission hard and often. “Are you doing this,” Peters said of Stu Levitan’s about-face in favor of removing the memorial stone at Confederate Rest, “to show you’re against slavery?” That, Peters continued a few hours ago, was “hypocritical grandstanding.” You…
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Confederate Rest stone is ‘too big’ for Stu Levitan; it’s got to go
We’ll see you at 5 this afternoon (07-23-18) in Room 351 of the City County Bldg on Martin Luther Drive. That’s when the Landmark Commission meets. Your stones are too small, Stu Say it ain’t so, Stu Levitan So the professional city staff serving the Madison Landmarks Commission says to keep the monument at Confederate…