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GOP Senators Say Mississippi Statues at U.S. Capitol, State’s Flag, Are State’s Business (Hyde-Smith: I would support changing the flag)
Breitbart ^ | June 17 2020 | PENNY STARR

Posted on 06/17/2020 12:27:30 PM PDT by knighthawk

Republican Senators from Mississippi were pressed to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) letter to the Joint Committee on the Library on June 10 asking that 11 statues of Confederate soldiers be removed from the U.S. Capitol.

WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi asked GOP Sens. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith about Pelosi’s effort and whether or not they also stood by the state’s flag, which has a field with the Confederate flag design:

12 News reached out to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) about whether he’s in favor of removing Mississippi’s statues in the U.S. Capitol building.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: flag; mississippi; statues
Should the people of Mississippi and their elected leaders decide to begin the process of finding a more unifying banner that better represents all Mississippians and the progress we have made as a state, I would support that effort."
1 posted on 06/17/2020 12:27:30 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Here in NJ our Dem governor removed Mississippi’s flag from a state park over this; we still proudly fly the flag of the slave state of NJ, though (yes, it was the same flag we use today).


2 posted on 06/17/2020 12:31:19 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: knighthawk

You should always surrender to evil and ignorant thugs. This is spelled out in your personal constitution.


3 posted on 06/17/2020 12:56:11 PM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: knighthawk
Coward POS's.

(rhino/rino is insulting to real Rhinos)

4 posted on 06/17/2020 1:06:09 PM PDT by va22030
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