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Memphis Confederate Monument Fight Draws In Lawmakers Across Tennessee

WPLN | By Chas Sisk,
Jason Moon Wilkins
Published February 11, 2018 at 10:00 AM EST
A statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was removed in December, despite state lawmakers' efforts to keep it in place.
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A statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was removed in December, despite state lawmakers' efforts to keep it in place.

The Tri-Star State — A Tennessee Politics Podcast — Week of Feb. 11, 2018

The issue of Confederate monument removal has come back to the state legislature this year in the shape of several bills filed, mainly, by East Tennessee Republicans.

Their new proposals seem to be a direct response to the action taken by Memphis late last year. The city executed what they believe was a legal workaround to existing state law prohibiting monument removal.

In this week's edition of The Tri-Star State, Nashville Public Radio's Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk look at what the new bills do and why some in the GOP want the issue to go away.

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Chas Sisk
Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
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