Tucson panel rejects request to remove Pancho Villa statue

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A statue of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is remaining in downtown Tucson following an effort by a conservative watchdog group to remove it.
The Arizona Daily Star reports members of the Public Art and Community Design Committee last week unanimously rejected a removal request by Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch.
The group claims city records do not indicate that a public hearing was held to hear complaints about the statue before it was unveiled in 1981.
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