Posted on 01/13/2018 11:48:56 AM PST by sodpoodle
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Lawmakers can expect face-to-face meetings with Girl Scouts from across Georgia next month at the state Capitol, where the young scouts plan on treating legislators to a milk-and-cookie reception. These girls bearing gifts of Thin Mints and Samoas will also come packing an agenda. They want to see Savannah's towering suspension bridge renamed in honor of Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts in the coastal Georgia city more than a century ago. The Girl Scouts saw an opening last fall when Savannah's city council formally asked state lawmakers during their 2018 session to strip the name of segregationist former Gov. Eugene Talmadge from the bridge. Georgia scouts are getting support from the Girl Scouts' national headquarters in New York, which has hired a lobbyist to help sway lawmakers in Atlanta. Rep. Ron Stephens, a Savannah Republican, is on board with the switch. He said he plans to introduce a bill on Feb. 6, when Girl Scout leaders plan to bring as many as 300 scouts to the Capitol. "I can't think of a name that could go on the bridge at the Savannah River that would mean more," Stephens said of Low, though he's not optimistic fellow lawmakers will agree if that means rescinding an honor bestowed on a former governor. "My opinion is chances of passage are slim to none." Since 1956, the span crossing the Savannah River at the Georgia-South Carolina line has been named for Talmadge, a populist Democrat who served three terms between 1933 and 1942. Talmadge railed against the New Deal for offering blacks hope of economic parity with whites.
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The Girl Scouts of today are not the same organisation our mothers were members of.
They are now a Marxist sect
Margaret Sanger has a bridge named after her?
Ain’t that the truth!
The left ruins EVERYTHING they come near.
.....eyep,listen to the adults and watch the sales numbers drop...
James Earl Carter, Segregationalist school board member for Plains Georgia of the 1950’s, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187446/jimmy-carters-race-problem-hans-von-spakovsky probably has a ton of stuff named after him that could be named after Malcom X instead.
“These girls bearing gifts of Thin Mints and Samoas”
In what universe does that cheesy organization give their cookies away?
Yes, we will have to rename every public place, if we continue down this road of cleansing any mention of anyone who did not have a 21st century politically correct worldview.
Marxists thrive on creating anarchy, instability, lack of tradition and especially hiring NYC lobbyists to promote their liberal tumultuous ideology. When you own or dominate the media bet on eventually trying to redo our Constitution too.
We need to quit openly fretting about their nonsense and whining and just say NO. We want and need stability so we know where we’ve been, so we know where we want to go.
I hate Girl Scout cookie season. All these parents wandering around the office hawking cookies for their daughters and having to explain to each one that I cannot buy from an organization that stands for the things the GS stands for today. I always put in a plug for American Heritage Girls, an organization that supports American and Christian virtues instead of Marxism and infanticide.
The inventor of Coca Cola, John Pemberton served in the Third Cavalry Battalion of the Georgia State Guard, which was at that time a component of the Confederate army. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel.
I call for the removal of all Coca Cola products as they were brought forth by a Confederacy loving racist bigot.
>>We need to quit openly fretting about their nonsense and whining and just say NO.
See my post #10.
Exactly right. The Girls Scouts were taken over by Radical Feminists. The head of NOW became the president and the rest is history.
I have a better idea: rename it the Patti Garibay bridge.
(Heh heh heh)
Revisionist History strikes again.
Of course these are not your mother's Girl Scouts. These are the new rainbow Girl Scouts indoctrinated with abortion, birth control, gaia, and Hillary.
Cookies are smaller, few in the box, boxes smaller, and costs higher . . . and just for laughs, some of the proceeds go to Planned Predators . . . disgusting what the feminazis did to this otherwise great girls organization.
You know that’s a damn fine idea (no, not getting rid of Coca Cola, but actually drinking one). I don’t care who is offended. The nice, brown color should calm some of these race-card-flippin’ idjits.
I’ve to but Girl Scout cookie for years.....ever since they became an arm of the democrat party
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