No confederate flags at the fair (NY)
Posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:00 am
By John Mason Columbia-Greene Media
Confederate flags should not be on display or offered for sale at the Columbia County Fair this year, fair officials said.
“For some time it has been our policy to discourage the sale and display of Confederate flags and other objectionable materials at the Columbia County Fair,” said Nelson “Dick” Alford, a lawyer who is the fair’s president of the board. “The policy’s in place; it has worked very well and will continue” ...
“They don’t allow vulgar or offensive signs, placards or banners,” he said. “They’ve been very successful at preventing it. That (policy) is the lever they intend to use … The fairgrounds are owned by the Columbia County Agricultural Society. They enforce their policy; they’re allowed to do it. It’s not unlike the shopping mall.”
Hughes said he and Grattan plan to talk to County Attorney Robert Fitzsimmons about drafting a resolution to ban the Confederate flag from all county municipal properties, and look at language to keep them away from all events sponsored by the county government ...
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