Governor Ralph Northam

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Governor Ralph Northam @VAGovernor73

And as the statues went up, so did lots of new laws. The people who wrote these laws knew what they were doing. They wrote other new laws to say that once a statue goes up, it can never come down. Those laws ruled for more than a century. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 4, 2020

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Governor Ralph Northam @VAGovernor73

The statue of Robert E. Lee is the most prominent. Lee himself didn’t want a monument, but Virginia built one any way. Instead of choosing to heal the wounds of the American civil war, they chose to keep them on display. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 4, 2020

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Governor Ralph Northam @VAGovernor73

But voting matters, elections matter, and laws can be changed. And this year, we changed them. This year, I proposed legislation to let cities and counties decide what to do with monuments in their communities—take them down, move them somewhere else, or add additional context. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 4, 2020