Contemporary News Accounts Undermine GOP Denials on Confederate Statues/DCCC mailer

Contemporary News Accounts Undermine GOP Denials on Confederate Statues
By Eric Kleefeld - May 13, 2008, 4:37PM
The NRCC is complaining that a DCCC mailer, distributed at the last minute in today's Mississippi special election, makes a false accusation when it says GOP candidate Greg Davis offered to have his town provide a new home for a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who later founded the Ku Klux Klan.

But contemporary news accounts appear to support the DCCC's claim.

The controversy dates back to 2005, when civil rights groups were demanding that Memphis get rid of statues of Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

As it turns out, the New York Times reported in August 2005: "Last week, the mayor of Southaven, Miss., a fast-growing city where many white Memphians have moved over the years, said he would be happy to have the Forrest equestrian statue in Southaven." Davis was, and still is, the mayor of the Memphis suburb of Southaven.

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