A state representative who opposed removing a statue of a Confederate general from the U.S. Capitol is now blocking its replacement, apparently because he isn’t happy that Walt Disney won’t be representing the state of Florida.
Republican Rep. Scott Plakon blocked a bill to replace the statue Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith with one of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who wrote “The Everglades: River of Grass” and is credited with helping create the national park that preserves 1.5 million acres of wetlands in southern Florida.
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