Mayor asks candidate to drop out after shares on Facebook

[struggle4progress]

By Don Stacom
August 10, 2015

... Mayor Erin Stewart, who heads the GOP ticket, called Ceglarz to her office at midday, and announced immediately after the meeting that he'd pulled out ... One post he shared says if the Confederate flag is a racist symbol, then the emblems of the NAACP, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the Democratic Party are, too ... Another post on his personal Facebook page shows side-by-side photos of Al Sharpton and a Confederate flag with the words "This is a racist symbol ... the other is a flag" ...

http://www.courant.com/community/new-britain/hc-new-britain-facebook-dispute-0811-20150810-story.html

[Historic NY]

1. When assholes above the Mason - Dixon line used that flag it mean one of 3 things...

They are re-enactors or they are racists or the support the tenets of the KKK.