Texas officials reject Confederate license plate

[IDemo]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Texas officials on Thursday unanimously rejected a proposal for specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag.

The nine-member Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board, all appointees of Gov. Rick Perry, voted at their regular meeting in Austin against offering the plates after hearing hours of testimony opposing the plates.

The board had deadlocked on the issue 4-4 earlier this year when one member was absent. After a member who voted in favor of the plates died in June, a second vote was postponed until Perry appointed a replacement.

Perry, who is campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, has defended Confederate symbols in the past, but last month said he opposed the license plates, in part because, "we don't need to be opening old wounds."

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/texas-officials-reject-confederate-license-plate-approve-buffalo-soldiers.html

[Mosaic]

1. Good for Texas

Those awful confederate days are over for good. Time to promote progress now and into the future in the Lone Star state.

[AlinPA]

2. Perry opposed them? Hard to believe, but good for the Texas DMV.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. "Perry opposed them?"

It's a national election year!

[pepperbear]

16. He learned his lesson with the "N***** Head" Rock.

[gratuitous]

3. Color me pleasantly surprised

The board, I'm sure, takes its cues from the Governor. In the Texas scheme, the govenor is not a very powerful office, but Perry's status as a presidential contender gives him a long shadow. I wonder how this development will play with the Tea Baggers?

[MicaelS]

4. I'm from Texas, and I think this is great...

Some idiots want to display "The Stars and Bars" on their vehicle, there are plenty of other ways to do it. I don't want the state sponsoring it in any way.

[Lionessa]

5. I don't think Texas' history has the same attachment to the CSA

that southeastern states do/did. Certainly not comparable in their investment of gold or men as the rest. It's been decades since I was required to learn the state's history, so I guess I could be wrong, but seems I recall that Texas really wasn't an active CSA member. And growing up there, sure there is/was racism and the conditions for blacks particularly in east Texas was horrendous, but I never recall that same CSA twist to the racism that I saw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

[Ishoutandscream2]

18. Exactly. It's not talked about much down here

Oh, our state was a part of the Confederacy, but there isn't the deep seeded resentment that you may find in some in the deep south.

[SkatmanRoth]

7. The Texas TeaParty will be heartbroken

[awoke_in_2003]

8. good news...

maybe now they can get rid of the "In god we trust" plates.

[24601]

12. So you probably don't want any of your money that says the same

thing. You can just send it all to me.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. don't think it should be there, either...

it used to say "E Pluribus Unum"- the real motto of this country. And who has cash anymore? Take your god and ram him.

[24601]

17. Him? You're awful sure of this are you? She might send a thunderbolt

up yours.

But your distress is intuitively obvious to the casual observer. Just turn in all your money and your unhappiness will flow away from your failing grey matter.

[Marnie]

9. Good for Texas. And it's not likethere aren't about a dozen others

that are Texan to choose from.

I like Gonzalez' Come and Take It. It is macho if you want macho and it is historically real.

FYI. Gonzalez, a small city in central Texas had to retreat in the face of Santa Anna's advance. Santa Anna demanded they surrender their cannon, which was part of the armament of the local Mexican garrison. Gonzales residents refused, and replied "Come and Take It." Unlike the Alamo with its Twin Sisters which Santa Anna captured intact, Gonzalez threw its canon into the Guadalupe River and fled to join the refugee march to the SE and to join Sam Houston's army.

Put that on your license plates if you love your Texas history.

[RamboLiberal]

10. Texas officials reject Confederate license plate

Source: LA Times

Texas officials on Thursday unanimously rejected a proposal for specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag.

The nine-member Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board, all appointees of Gov. Rick Perry, voted at its regular meeting in Austin against offering the plates after hearing hours of testimony opposing the plates.

The board had deadlocked on the issue 4-4 earlier this year when one member was absent. After a member who voted in favor of the plates died in June, a second vote was postponed until Perry appointed a replacement.

Perry, who is campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, has defended Confederate symbols in the past, but last month said he opposed the license plates, in part because, "we don't need to be opening old wounds."



Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/texas-officials-reject-confederate-license-plate-approve-buffalo-soldiers.html

[krispos42]

11. Only if I can get a 33-star Union flag.

"Heritage, not hate... so stop hating that my side won".

[24601]

13. Senator Kleagle must be turning over in his grave. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

14. Two good-news items out of Texas today.

I forgot the other one.

[No Elephants]

19. I'm sure Governor Secessionist had no personal motive to oppose this while running for the

Presidency.

Proof you can be a bumbler AND a hypocrite at the same time. In fact, Texas Governors seem to excel at being politically cunning while also being as a box of rocks.

Maybe that's why Molly Ivins said no one from Texas should ever be President of the United States.