As a parade of speakers told the City Council at the Tuesday night meeting to let voters decide whether to remove historic monuments (including Confederate ones) from public spaces in Jax, Mayor Lenny Curry sent the council a different message by Twitter. “The Jax City Council should take a yes or no vote on the removal of monuments that represent the oppression of people. The people of Jax, that elected you, deserve to know where you stand. They elected you to make decisions,” Curry tweeted.
Curry attempted last year to move a monument out of Springfield Park, but the plan, with its price estimate of over a million dollars, failed to get traction in Council.