Karl Oliver was born on March 24,1963 and is a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for District 46, which encompasses Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, and Webster counties in the north central portion of his state.
11 Facts About Karl Oliver
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Karl Oliver is a 1981 graduate of Winona High School and Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia.
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Karl Oliver supported the Taxpayer Pay Raise Act of 2016, and suggested to an Illinois-born Mississippian who was critical of the bill that she might consider returning to her native state.
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On May 20,2017, Karl Oliver submitted a Facebook post stating that the Louisiana lawmakers who supported the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in their state "should be LYNCHED".
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Karl Oliver made the statement following the removal of the Robert E Lee Monument, the last of a group of Confederate monuments removed from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Karl Oliver's statement compared the removal of monuments to Nazi book burnings.
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On May 22,2017, Karl Oliver apologized, after his statement caused national outrage.
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Karl Oliver's district includes the town of Money, where African American teenager Emmett Till was lynched.
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The Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, Mississippi NAACP, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger newspaper, and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called for Karl Oliver to resign for his statements.
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Karl Oliver has stated his perspective that the policies of the Obama Administration made the US less secure against terrorism, and accused the Administration of "aiding in transporting these same Muslim extremist into our nation".
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Karl Oliver has supported school choice, and was given an "A" ranking on the issue by Enpower Mississippi in the group's 2016 Education Report Card.