Posted on 04/08/2010 11:48:57 AM PDT by Puppage
Should the Tea Party's adopted flag fly at the State Capitol?
They don’t say or show what the adopted flag is, are we supposed to know? Or do they revaeal that at the end :)
The question was an overwhelming "YES" when it was refered to as the Gadsden flag, the opposite of the results in this poll.
Poll needs our help. Good guys getting stomped. Good news: only about 1800 have responded.
Should the Tea Party's adopted flag fly at the State Capitol? Yes 16% No 83% Total Votes: 1,535
I voted and it said 1544 had voted. Looks like it’s counting backwards.
nope
To bad Conn residents don’t even know the history of the flag.:
The Gadsden Flag’s Namesake
Christopher Gadsden & Esek Hopkins
Although Benjamin Franklin helped create the American rattlesnake symbol, his name isn’t generally attached to the rattlesnake flag. The yellow “don’t tread on me” standard is usually called a Gadsden flag, for Colonel Christopher Gadsden, or less commonly, a Hopkins flag, for Commodore Esek Hopkins.
These two individuals were mulling about Philadelphia at the same time, making important contributions to American history and the history of the rattlesnake flag.
Christopher Gadsden was an American patriot if ever there was one. He led Sons of Liberty in South Carolina starting in 1765, and was later made a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1775 he was in Philadelphia representing his home state in the Continental Congress. He was also one of three members of the Marine Committee who decided to outfit and man the Alfred and its sister ships.
Commodore Hopkins, portrait by C. Corbutt, 1776. Click here for a larger image. The Don’t Tread on Me flag in this image appears to be a First Navy Jack. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gadsden and Congress chose a Rhode Island man, Esek Hopkins, as the commander-in-chief of the Navy. The flag that Hopkins used as his personal standard on the Alfred is the one we would now recognize. It’s likely that John Paul Jones, as the first lieutenant on the Alfred, ran it up the gaff.
It’s generally accepted that Hopkins’ flag was presented to him by Christopher Gadsden, who felt it was especially important for the commodore to have a distinctive personal standard. Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to his state legislature in Charleston. This is recorded in the South Carolina congressional journals:
“Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, “Don’t Tread on Me!”
http://www.gadsden.info/Christopher.html
“Democratic state Rep. Michael Lawlor of East Haven is questioning whether the Capitol is an appropriate place to fly what he calls a politically partisan flag.”
Ofcourse a Dumocrat is historically DUMB.
Yep!
The Tea Party adopted a flag? I think not. There is no Tea Party. There are tea party events with a wide range of individuals attending, but there is no Tea Party.
As of Now.
Should the Tea Party’s adopted flag fly at the State Capitol?
Yes
28%
No
71%
Total Votes: 2,242
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