State denies Nashville's request to hide Forrest statue

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WRITTEN BY LAUREN JACOBSEN
07/20/2015, 07:00PM

The state of Tennessee has denied the city of Nashville’s request to plant trees and vegetation in front off a controversial statue of Confederate General and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest that is visible from Interstate 65. Earlier this month the Metro Council approved a resolution to ask the Tennessee Depatment of Transportation to plant vegitation on it’s property to block the view of the statue, which is one private property, from the interstate ... The statue has caused controversy ever since it’s erection in 1998 ...

http://nashville.suntimes.com/nash-news/7/118/200169/state-denies-nashvilles-request-hide-forrest-statue

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1. Shows the power of gerrymandering.

All four of our major cities - even those in the East - are helmed by Democrats - but the state government is still chocked full of GOP yahoos who haven't the sense God gave a goose.

There's also a HUGE Confederate battle flag - also flown on someone's private property - you can see from I-40 in Cookeville. There are trees around it, but it's so tall that it will be years before they overtake the site of it.