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Officials Delay Decision on Kentucky Confederate Statue

Associated Press

   OWENSBORO, KY. - Officials in a Kentucky county have delayed a vote on
   whether to remove a Confederate statue from the grounds of a
   courthouse.

   Members of the Daviess County Fiscal Court were expected to vote
   Tuesday on a resolution that would have returned the statue to the
   Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and moved
   it to property owned by the chapter. Instead, a commissioner presented
   a surprise motion to postpone the vote until Aug. 6 that passed on a
   3-1 vote, the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reported.

   The Rev. Rhondalyn Randolph, president of the Owensboro NAACP, has led
   the charge for the statue's removal. She said she was disappointed by
   the delay, telling the paper, "In my heart and mind, I knew something
   like this would happen."