Surrounded by protesters, Corey Stewart records a Facebook Live video defending a Charlottesville Confederate statue with Thaddeus Alexander, whose Facebook video railing against liberal demonstrators went viral. (Fenit Nirappi/The Washington Post)
Posted on 02/11/2017 2:49:37 PM PST by Perseverando
Surrounded by protesters, Corey Stewart records a Facebook Live video defending a Charlottesville Confederate statue with Thaddeus Alexander, whose Facebook video railing against liberal demonstrators went viral. (Fenit Nirappi/The Washington Post)
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart came to this town to defend its statue of Robert E. Lee in a downtown park, only to be swarmed by dozens of protesters who shouted him down everywhere he went.
It was the harshest reception yet for the provocative chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, who is campaigning for the GOP nomination for governor as Virginia’s Donald Trump, with a hard-line stance against illegal immigration.
A divided Charlottesville City Council’s decision last week to remove the statue of the Confederate general gave Stewart an opening to appeal to his base. On social media, he urged people to “defend Virginia’s heritage,” likening those who wanted to remove the statue to tyrants and Nazis.
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When do we get to start tearing down the plagiarizer, adulter, communist worshiper statues of MLK?
Leftists are the American version of ISIS. They’re intent on destroying our history.
If Virginia keeps getting overrun with northeast liberals I may have to move elsewhere.
Corey Stewart, Denver Riggleman or Frank Wagner are the acceptable candidates for Governor.
We don’t need Ed Gillespie, Bush leftover and Cheap Labor Express Republican.
“They [leftists] have no respect for our heritage,” Stewart said over shouts in the video. “They have no respect not only to Robert E. Lee, a great American, but they have no respect for Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington or any of the other great American and Virginia heroes.”
True!!!!
Lee is also lucky Lincoln and Grant were incredibly forgiving.
Throughout history, traitors like Lee would have had a pre dawn visit to the gallows
Part of that swamp being drained has covered land in northern Virginia.
Where’s that horrid statue?
Apparently “democrats” more accurately called statists, (anti)progressives, commies don’t want anyone to remember their heritage. General Lee fought for the democrat party.
The Confederacy, slavery, Jim Crow and segregation is the heritage of the democrat party. Let’s help them celebrate it by never letting them forget it!
Why that's a statue of the god of the left.
I’m not voting for Gillespie. Hopefully it will not be removed. 3 people, trouble maker’s from outside of Virginia voted to remove it. 3 radical leftist. They aren’t going to get what they want. The black guy has recently lost 2 different positions based on racist tweets. Now they are working to have him removed from the council.
Oklahoma City
He wasn’t a traitir, they seceded. They were attacked.
Leftists, like all terrorists, only embrace history to the degree that it dovetails their agenda. They are happy to burn our present in order to hide their past.
ISIS has little on the dhimmicrat party.
Lee was a Virginian. He went with his state. Safe to say that if George Washington was alive at that tme, he would have gone with Virginia also.
The states were held as a higher government authority at that time and should be so today.
Tell you what. If it were not for Grant, Lee, Johnston and Sherman, we would not have had a USA after Lincoln was killed.
The bastards in Washington wanted to hang Lee and go back to war, Grant basically told them that he would take up arms against them if they tried.
And that, was the end of that.
Wrong , Robert E Lee stood up for state right of his home state of Virginia
Lee was no traitor, he was an honorable gentleman....
...YOU are not!...So shut it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee’s statute should never be removed.
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