Ausitn ISD is getting praised for renaming schools that had confederate ties, but a bill filed in the legislature would make it more difficult to do, and it extends to streets as well as the removal of confederate monuments.
Under hill country area State Rep Kyle Biedermann’s bill if a district wanted to change the name of a school they would first have to get the approval of the taxpayers in that district. A city or county could not remove a monument which has been in place for twenty years or more without the approval of two thirds of the state legislature. The bill calls for civil financial damages as punishment for offenders. Biedermann said if this monument desecration isn’t stopped soon, the mobs will be coming for World War two and Vietnam memorials.
(Photo:Newsradio KLBJ 590am/99.7fm/Jon Cooley)
