A draft bill proposes to raise the fine for moving a monument or changing the name of a memorial street or building. The fine is now $25,000. The bill would raise that to $10,000 per day.
It’s been six years since the Alabama Legislature passed a bill intended to protect Confederate monuments and other symbols recognizing that era in the state’s history.
The draft bill proposes to raise the fine for moving a monument or changing the name of a memorial street or building. The fine is now $25,000. The bill would raise that to $10,000 per day for every day that a government entity failed to restore what it moved or changed. with strong support from the Republican majority that controls the Legislature and opposition from Democrats.
Holmes, who did not run for reelection last year, noted at the time that his bill would have protected all monuments and memorials, not just Confederate ones. He said it was about preserving state and local history. “I know that passing the Preservation Act originally was something that was very important to the Legislature,” Reed said. “But I’ve not heard a lot of discussion about modifying that legislation.”
“And then the second part of that, if someone were going around and saying, ‘Well, the Holocaust and World War II weren’t about Hitler wanting to wipe out Jews and other minority groups and it was really about economic conditions,’ that would be on a personal level incredibly offensive and also troubling because it means we’re not learning the history of it.”
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