Top 3 state officials hold keys to removing Confederate statues

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Staff for the state agency that controls monuments and plaques on the Texas State Capitol grounds are reviewing Confederate iconography after a state representative made a request.
The people who decide what will happen next are Chair of the State Preservation Board Gov. Greg Abbott, and the two co-vice chairs, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio.
State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, asked the chair to take down the 1959 plaque from the Children o