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City pulls bids for Confederate monument removal contract
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:26 pm
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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration has scrapped its request for bids on a contract to remove Confederate monuments from the city, citing a court order.
The bids were due to be opened Monday (May 23), but the city canceled the solicitation.
Landrieu's attempt to remove monuments to Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard has been put on hold since March 25 when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order saying the statues had to be kept in place while it considered a request by preservationists to block removal altogether.
Looks like the monuments ain't going anywhere.
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Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:28 pm to WPBTiger
Well shite, how are we going to address all the related crime now!?
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:29 pm to WPBTiger
I am sure the mayor will be on shortly to explain how this will impact ongoing crime fighting efforts.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:30 pm to WPBTiger
If this means the "but, but, but the statues" reply goes away, I'm 100% behind it. Not really sure which was worse - the people who wanted them removed or the people who used their removal as a quip in every damn NOLA thread on this board.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:30 pm to WPBTiger
I'd love to see who actually bid on the job.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:33 pm to bencoleman
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I'd love to see who actually bid on the job.
You would have to be a fool to bid on this job.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:43 pm to WPBTiger
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This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:46 pm to WPBTiger
Why isn't BLM volunteering to take the statues down for free?
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:46 pm to WPBTiger
Maybe they can cover them in purple linen like the Catholics do during Lent.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:47 pm to Kramer26
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The monuments won't be safe until Mitch is out of office
by the time the court case wraps up, and the bidding process finishes, he'll be gone.
also, I'd be shocked if it doesn't turn out that the cost to remove them without damaging the statues themselves ends up making this way more costly than Mitchie claims.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:51 pm to WPBTiger
City trying to get that Super Bowl
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:53 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Why isn't BLM volunteering to take the statues down for free?
Most of them won't sit on the porch all day without expecting a govt. check. You think they'd actually do some work for free?
Posted on 5/23/16 at 1:54 pm to WPBTiger
he got what he wanted anyway...pandering to his voting block
Posted on 5/23/16 at 2:00 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
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I'd be shocked if it doesn't turn out that the cost to remove them without damaging the statues themselves ends up making this way more costly than Mitchie claims.
The Lee Statute especially isn't going to be cheap.
Posted on 5/23/16 at 2:28 pm to sealawyer
Another reason to vote for Hillary, hell all of those statues are of white men and can't vote...She overcame sniper bullets so she can git dem dam statues down! 
Posted on 5/23/16 at 2:49 pm to bencoleman
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I'd love to see who actually bid on the job.
there were no bids
there will never be any bids
this is/was a complete clusterfrick perpetrated by morons
the statues arent going anywhere unless they decide to destroy them in the process
Posted on 5/23/16 at 2:52 pm to WPBTiger
Good, leave them right where they are!
Posted on 5/23/16 at 3:05 pm to JS87
Mitch needs to redouble his efforts to get rid of these things. And the City Council needs to spend an inordinate amount of time addressing the monuments, to the exclusion of everything else "important" like crime, quality of life, etc. If Mitch doesn't get these monuments removed immediately, we are all doomed.
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