Election Night Final Report: Arcata Incumbents Ahead, McKinley Statue Measure Continues Downward Slide
by
Kimberly Wear
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November 6, 2018 at 9:10PM
As an aside, it was 118 years ago today that McKinley was reelected president, serving just under a year more before he was assassinated in 1901, an act that shocked the nation and prompted Arcata farmer George Zehndner to commemorate him by commissioning the statue, the first major work by renowned Armenian sculptor Haig Patigian. Brought forward via the citizen initiative process in response to the Arcata City Council's controversial February decision to remove the bronze, the measure — if passed — would prohibit the "modification, destruction, relocation” of McKinley’s statue or its base from the plaza center.