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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Thu Sep 10, 2015, 08:00 AM Sep 2015

Group forming to oversee plan to display Confederate flag (SC)

BY CASSIE COPE
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

... S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Darlington, announced two of his three appointments Wednesday to the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum Commission ... Senate President Pro Tempore Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, named his three appointees to the commission in July. They are George Dorn and Voight Shealy, both of Lexington; and Leland Summers of Lancaster, S.C. commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans ... Republican Gov. Nikki Haley has appointed one of the three members that she can name ... The commission was created .. July 1 ... The legislation .. requires .. two of its nine members be approved by .. Confederate heritage groups ... Commissioner Summers .. was an outspoken opponent of removing the flag ... “I want to make sure that the flag is displayed (in) as prominent location as it can be” ...

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/state/south-carolina/article34641360.html

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Group forming to oversee plan to display Confederate flag (SC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP
Seems like they won't stop until yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #1

yuiyoshida

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1. Seems like they won't stop until
Thu Sep 10, 2015, 08:08 AM
Sep 2015

it rises higher then the American flag, in fact, I am betting some will say its more of an American flag than the star spangled banner.

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