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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They should be more concerned with the names of their over priced cookies.
Samoas are racist.
Thin Mints are an assault to body shapes.
On Obummer's planet.
This has been going on in Savannah ever since they build the new bridge (which most folks call the Big bridge, or, Savannah River Bridge).
Actually I thought that they had already renamed it.
As for Talmadge, he was a democrat crook. His son Herman Was a democrat crook. Time for them to go.
While I am no fan of the current Girl Scouts (good cover for avoiding buying the cookies...the delicious, yummmyyy...sorry), anyway. Juliette Gordan Lowe had and still does do a lot for our city. It would be an improvement.
Even better, name it after her mother. She was a hoot. When they were building her house, they asked her what she wanted the back of the house to look like. She said make it look like my fanny. So they did. During the War, she had some good sitting out on a blockade runner that couldn’t get past Ft. Pulaski. She put her rocking chair out on the deck of a tug and went out and got the goods. She said the Union troops were to much gentlemen to fire on a lady. She was right.
That Low woman did nothing to be honored for.
Great Southern stories. Lived in Savannah Beach, aka Tybee aka Fort Screven in the 60’s and commuted daily past Ft. Pulaski.
Lots of history being pushed under the rocks of PC.
The Girls Scouts are a liberal organization and no American girls should be in it...
So, renaming it from a segregationist, to the scandalously eclipsed Christian founder of what has become a marxist indoctrination cult.
Name it the Paula Deen Bridge...:-)
I don’t support Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts anymore. Period...
I don’t mind the Girl Guides creator in America, but generally sick of this stripping any important figure who may have had non-PC leanings.
The fact he was against the New Deal is good for me. Of course to these asses, that’s bad.
This commercial made me quit on the spot:
Girl Scout cookies gave too much abortion aftertaste for me.
Girl Scout Alternatives
https://hubpages.com/sports/Girl-Scout-Alternatives
“Our racist past never happened”
The girl scouts, screwing girls up since 1990...or earlier...
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