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Report: S.C. legislature has the votes to remove Confederate flag
Politico ^ | 06/29/2015 | Daniel Strauss

Posted on 06/29/2015 3:24:50 PM PDT by GIdget2004

There’s now enough support in the South Carolina legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds, according to a new analysis from South Carolina’s Post and Courier.

The poll’s finding, released Monday afternoon, found that at least 33 state senators and 82 house members, support removing the flag. That support meets the two-thirds majority in both chambers required to remove the flag.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: charleston; confederateflag; dixie; purge; southcarolina
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1 posted on 06/29/2015 3:24:50 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

pathetic cowards


2 posted on 06/29/2015 3:27:14 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: GIdget2004

Hey—if it makes you “feel good and pius” do it!


3 posted on 06/29/2015 3:27:42 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: GIdget2004

Of course they do. Insanity prevails.


4 posted on 06/29/2015 3:28:05 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: GIdget2004
According to what I have read at the Daily Beast and other sites, Donald Trump was quoted as saying:

“I would take it down, yes.”

Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul called the flag a symbol of racism.

Ben Carson said “it causes a lot of people angst.”

Other GOP contenders have weighed in on this, too. All of this info at:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/23/chris-christie-finally-figures-out-the-confederate-flag-is-divisive.html

Some went this way, others went the states rights way...

5 posted on 06/29/2015 3:30:29 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: GIdget2004

Pointless people doing pointless things.


6 posted on 06/29/2015 3:30:40 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: manc

DO WHAT WASHINGTON SAYS
DO WHAT THE STATE MEDIA SAYS
DO WHAT THE HOMOSEXUAL PRODUCERS AND HOSTS SAY
DO WHAT THEY SAY
FORSAKE YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS
SPIT ON YOUR HISTORY
GIVE THEM YOUR CHILDREN
DO WHAT STARBUCKS SAYS
DO WHAT COCA COLA SAYS
DO WHAT TED TURNER AND THE CLINTONS SAY
DO WHAT THEY SAY - THEY LOVE YOU
YOUR LORD DOES NOT
FORSAKE YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS
GIVE WASHINGTON YOUR CHILDREN
GIVE THEM TO YOUR HOMOSEXUAL FRIENDS
AND ALL WILL BE WELL


7 posted on 06/29/2015 3:31:29 PM PDT by golux
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To: GIdget2004

I’m disgusted.


8 posted on 06/29/2015 3:33:24 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GIdget2004
Report: S.C. legislature has the votes to remove Confederate flag

Media driven preference Cascade. This is how they force social change to their liking. They turn their media weapon on people who disagree.

9 posted on 06/29/2015 3:37:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: GIdget2004

Giving in to liberals only emboldens them to make new demands.


10 posted on 06/29/2015 3:37:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society cannot let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous Islamists.)
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To: trisham

I’m disgusted.

Yes, but just remember...taking the flag down ensures that no other psychopath will take it into his head to blow a crowd of innocent people away...

It just flat out ensures it...


11 posted on 06/29/2015 3:38:29 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: golux

and my reply is that they can go to hell


12 posted on 06/29/2015 3:38:52 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: IrishBrigade

muslim in Tunisia goes onto a beach and kills 38, I guess he must have had a battle flag too and Tunisia is showing it is not a civilized country according to Obama.

Where is the media here about this ? No they would rather talk about rainbows, turd poking and battle flags.


13 posted on 06/29/2015 3:40:21 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Every idiot RINO you named there isn’t deserving of being called a voice for freedom or free speech.

This whole debate just goes to show you how far the establishment is willing to go to destroy America and its history.


14 posted on 06/29/2015 3:41:09 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: GIdget2004

They can report all they want.
Break a deal face the wheel.
Remove the flag then remove the African American Monument they got in the last deal.
Breaking that deal puts them lower than a Progressives racist Democrat for Obama. White trash will be their name.

6/24 to 6/29.2015 5 days WYFF Upstate Greenville, South Carolina
NOW POLL 39003 votes
Should the Confederate flag be removed from the State House grounds.
Yes
49%
No
51%

James Mikell “Mike” Burns District 17 - Greenville County Republican No
William M. “Bill” Chumley District 35 - Greenville & Spartanburg Counties Republican No
Christopher A. Corley District 84 - Aiken County Republican No
Craig A. Gagnon @Gagnon4house District 11 -
Abbeville & Anderson Counties Republican No
Michael W. “Mike” Gambrell District 7 Abbeville & Anderson Counties Republican No
Kevin Hardee District 105 - Horry County Republican No
Jonathon D. Hill District 8 - Anderson County Republican No


15 posted on 06/29/2015 3:42:26 PM PDT by triSranch
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To: GIdget2004

Next up, the Stars and Stripes. The left has already started that argument. You think they will stop? The American flag flies over conquered land, does it not? I guess we have to take it down everywhere. Knock down the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. Blast the faces off of Mt. Rushmore. Eventually, we’ll be imploding the White House. It is White after all (when not illuminated in rainbow colors). White!


16 posted on 06/29/2015 3:52:59 PM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: GIdget2004

Based on sales, I think there are a lot more confederate flags going up than being taken down these days...


17 posted on 06/29/2015 3:53:10 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: triSranch

Cede the postage stamp-sized plot of land to the SCV. Problem solved.


18 posted on 06/29/2015 3:54:02 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: needmorePaine

Well, I tell you: The Stars and Stripes now lies over a fascist nation. I believe strongly that Old Glory is ashamed of what America has become, and in all probability she does not want to be associated with it. Old Glory would take herself down and take to the hills if she could.


19 posted on 06/29/2015 4:02:24 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: GIdget2004

http://wjtv.com/2015/06/22/web-poll-do-you-think-the-mississippi-state-flag-should-be-changed/

do you think the MS state flag should be changed poll


20 posted on 06/29/2015 4:04:06 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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