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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Iowa City Council Votes To Remove Memorial, City Votes To Remove The Council

The city council in Knoxville, Iowa, will be full of new members in January after a dispute over a veteran’s memorial bearing a cross led voters to boot out the incumbents.

It all started when Americans United for Separation of Church and State demanded that the city council take down a veteran’s monument in Young’s Park within the city. The monument featured a soldier bowing before a white cross, but the Americans United found this an offensive violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and threatened to sue.

The council voted to remove the memorial Nov. 2. Voters poured in the very next day to vote them out Nov. 3 in regular elections.

The city said it did not place the monument but that an unknown person put it there. The monument became a point of contention in the town, with many conservatives resenting the demands from the anti-religion group.

Seeking to defend the monument, they warned their council that if they voted to remove it, they’d pay the price.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Accountability in the elected officials - we need more of that.

This is an example of why the elections should be held April 16th!

Anonymous said...

It just shows you what you can do if you ACTUALLY stand up and fight back, no you rather be a slave and pay for it...

IF you want to pay me to slap you in the face everyday, I will take that job!!!! but no you rather pay someone else to slap you in the face everyday...

Anonymous said...

It would have been nice if Campbell, Cohen and Spies had received that kind of support while they were in office. But, they didn't and look what you have now for a council. Good luck with that!

Anonymous said...

TERM LIMITS = YOUR VOTE

To ALL the idiots that I have heard over the year's that my vote doesn't matter.

Anonymous said...

To ALL the idiots that I have heard over the year's that my vote doesn't matter.

November 12, 2015 at 4:17 PM

you took the blue pill didn't you

Anonymous said...

Way to go! This needs to be done here as well.