City Council approves anonymous donation to pay for Confederate monument removal (LA)
By Greg LaRose, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on February 04, 2016 at 4:53 PM, updated February 04, 2016 at 5:53 PM
The <New Orleans> City Council unanimously approved a technical change Thursday (Feb. 4) that allows the city to accept $170,000 from an anonymous donor to remove four Confederate monuments from public property. Ahead of the vote, a member of the Landrieu administration gave assurances that no public money would be spent on the job.
Councilwoman Stacy Head asked Eric Granderson, Mayor Mitch Landrieu's City Hall lobbyist, to respond to rumors that statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard would be donated to a private plantation owner. Those figures and the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk were declared public nuisances in a 6-1 December vote, in which Head was the lone dissenter.
"We don't go around giving away public property without a formal process," Head told Granderson in the context of her question, to which he responded that any such proposal would have to go before the council for approval.
Landrieu has said the monuments would be placed in a city warehouse and considered for inclusion in a public park or museum that places them in fuller context ...
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Shortly after joining the council, she found herself embroiled in a drunken brawl at Jazz Fest. 
