Grand Old Party
Posted on 07/09/2015 9:38:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A spokesman for Gov. Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag will be removed from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds on Friday morning.
Spokesman Chaney Adams says the flag will come down in a ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. He did not give any other details.
Haley has said she will sign the bill to remove the flag at 4 p.m. Thursday. The House passed the bill early Thursday. The measure says the flag must be removed within 24 hours of her signature.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
11:05 a.m.
The House is about to put its members on record on whether Confederate flags can decorate rebel graves in historic federal cemeteries and if their sale should be banned in national park gift shops.
The vote comes after Southern lawmakers complained that they were sandbagged two nights ago when the House voted -- without a recorded tally -- to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries and strengthen Park Service policy against its sale in gift shops.
It's unclear how the vote will turn out, but momentum against the flag's display on public land has skyrocketed after last month's tragic slaughter at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Early Thursday, the state legislature finalized a bill to remove the flag from Statehouse grounds. Gov. Nikki Haley says she'll sign it Thursday afternoon. It must be removed 24 hours after her signature.
10:25 a.m.
Gov. Nikki Haley says she will sign the bill removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Haley's office didn't immediately say when the flag would be removed, but the bill requires it to happen within 24 hours of her signature.
Moments after Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster ratified the bill, Haley made the announcement that she would sign it in the Statehouse lobby that afternoon. The bill passed the state House at 1 a.m. Thursday.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
Another Black Friday.
Gov. Nikki Haley (D) S.C.
The American Flag Will Come Soon
“Elect the Republicans and we will SAVE AMERICA.”
My @SS!!!
Peace will emerge on Friday afternoon.
No more strife and violence!
I'm so looking forward to this.
Woo Hoo!!
Haley has turned out to be another
Gutless
Obsequious
Pussy
Hope more come around to that realization.
Haley thinks this puts her on the short list for vice-president. I think she’s mistaken.
Only an liar and a fool would write this, and only an idiot would belive it.
Just like the Aurora theater shooting, just like Sandy Hook, just like scores of other shootings; it was a MENTALLY ILL young man off his meds that was responsible. Not racial hatred. And certainly NOT some flag.
But hey. Lets ignore the realities and ban the Conferderate Flag and say we did something.
Problem solved. Until next time.
Yup. She might as well switch parties.
Still driving Dixie down
I really have nothing against taking down that flag.
Except I am against how it is being taken down in a knee jerk, irrational mob mentality action.
That is not good and Haley has messed up.
Good. Let’s finish this up and move on.
Really? I can just see it:
Jebster/Haley
I hope that instead of taking it down tomorrow morning, they take it down overnight. The media is DROOLING over the story.
Don’t let the haters of heritage get the attention.
Grand Old Party
Its now official. The Civil War never happened.
Useful idiots who are eaten up with "white guilt", such as yourself, might think we're moving on. But the left isn't stopping. They're already bringing up the issue of removing monuments to Washington and Jefferson.
So you keep on helping them do that.
Ping
Nope....
They will keep moving the bar because we the people keep letting them decide what is okay and what is not.
It does not stop until we are all slaves.
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