RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia lady Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed to the state Board of Historic Resources has resigned after making extensively criticized remarks about Confederate statues and the Civil War.

Ann McLean stepped down from the board efficient Monday after a dialogue concerning the Youngkin management’s “objectives and priorities,” Macaulay Porter, a spokeswoman for the governor, stated in a commentary Wednesday.

“The Governor had up to now said that he didn’t believe Ann McLean’s statements and the Administration is inquisitive about making sure that our Commonwealth’s wealthy historical past and sources are preserved, the nice and the dangerous, for long term generations of Virginians and guests,” Porter stated.

McLean is a founding father of a Christian college with an educational background in artwork and architectural historical past who has been outspoken in her protection of Confederate monuments.

“I feel that the Southerners knew that their tale of why they fought the Civil War was once now not being informed appropriately,” McLean stated about Confederate monuments right through an interview with a conservative radio host closing 12 months, consistent with Richmond TV station WRIC. “Fake information, or false narratives, don’t seem to be new, and this complete tragedy is that those statues had been constructed to inform the real tale of the American South to folks 500 years from now.”

Youngkin picked McLean in July to enroll in the board that is helping evaluate new nominations of historical websites for checklist within the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. The board additionally considers new or proposed updates to ancient freeway markers and new preservation easements, consistent with a state website online.

After her nomination, McLean returned to the radio display, the place she defended secession via the Southern states, and stated she believed the South would have ultimately outlawed slavery, “however they sought after to do it on their very own time.” Her remarks have drawn standard grievance from Democratic elected officers.

McLean wrote in an electronic mail Wednesday to The Associated Press that “it’s previous time for Virginians to inspect our whole historical past, nevertheless it needs to be the true complete and truthful historical past – now not a simplified model used for political causes.”

“I’m excited to be utterly unfastened now to proportion that historical past with folks and to talk as much as forestall the destruction of our shared cultural heritage,” she wrote.