Talk:David Schweikert

Should Rep David Schweikert's Vote to Help Remove the Arlington Confederate Memorial Be Listed as a Political Stance
Schweikert voted against Amendment #742 on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 which would prohibit the use of federal funds in carrying out the recommendations made by The Naming Commission. The Naming Commission was tasked in the renaming and removal of memorials and military bases named after or for Confederate veterans. Voting against Amendment #742 allowed for federal funds to carry out recommendations made by The Naming Commission "to remove Confederate associate objects and memorabilia". This this vote paved the way for the removal of the Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery) which is also known as the Confederate Reconciliation Memorial within Arlington National Cemetery.

Considering votes speak political positions, should it be noted that Rep Schweikert is against Confederate Veterans or Confederate Symbols since he helped allow the Arlington Confederate Memorial to be removed? If he was pro Confederate veteran or symbols, he would have voted for the amendment to stop funding.

My edit to include that on a political stance has been deleted by @Marquardtika. A stance on Confederate Monuments is now seen as a political stance by the general public and would sway voters if someone was pro Confederate memorial or anti-Confederate memorial. Azhistorylov (talk) 02:25, 9 August 2023 (UTC)


 * The issue here is that the sources you have added are not reliable. You have added a source from the Discovery Institute. Not reliable. You have added a source that is a Tweet from an advocacy group. Not reliable. You have added the roll call vote from the House, which is fine, but it's not enough sourcing to justify including this. The House takes hundreds (thousands?) of roll call votes, so in order to show that any particular vote is noteworthy for inclusion here, we need corroborating independent sources. The Discovery Institute and Twitter are not sufficient. Can you find any better sourcing? Marquardtika (talk) 14:09, 9 August 2023 (UTC)