Mayor candidates diverge on moving Confederate monuments, mirroring sharp differences between Democratic and GOP voters.
JAX Chamber President Daniel Davis, a Republican, is the only candidate running to replace Curry who has not taken a position one way or the other on whether the city should move the monument.
The positions taken by mayoral candidates mirror the split citywide between Democratic voters and Republicans voters. Afound 79% of Democrats support moving Confederate monuments from public space. Among Republicans, the view was reversed with 83% opposed to moving such monuments off public space. She said the city should commission the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts to design and build"something that is reflective of who we are in modern times as a city."
"I think there's a frustration that government just doesn't listen to what's happening on the ground, and there's a disconnect between what's happening on the ground and what's happening in the halls of government," she said. He said"instead of tearing down history," the city should find ways to tell more about the city's history, such as Freedom Park in the East Arlington part of his City Council district that will have historical markers about the Cosmo community that started as a land grant for freed slaves.
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