Republican overseeing Alamo renovation ousted after 'woke' social media post [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Kate Roger, a Republican, has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against state officials after a social media post and PhD dissertation led to her losing the job of overseeing a massive renovation of the Texas landmark.
Kate Rogers didn’t know it at the time, but Oct. 13 would mark the beginning of the end of her four-year tenure leading the $550 million renovation of the Alamo.
On that day, two posts appeared on the X account of the famous San Antonio historic site. One celebrated Columbus Day. The other, which has since been deleted, celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday recognized by President Joe Biden in 2021 that honors Indigenous populations in the United States.
It was the latter that caught the eye of powerful state Republicans.
The next morning, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham (R) decried the post as “woke” and announced that her office, which oversees the Alamo, would be launching an investigation.
Rogers said she wasn’t involved with crafting the social media posts but offered to resign after being told during a board meeting of the Alamo Trust that “someone is going to have to pay.”
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