Posted on 09/04/2014 7:39:32 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Texass attorney general wants the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a five-year fight over specialty Confederate flag license plates.
The plates were sponsored five years ago last month by the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a nonprofit group that describes itself as neither political nor sectional and strives to honor and keep alive the memory of the Confederacy and the principles for which Confederates fought. Supporters of such groups say they are simply celebrating those who fought for states rights, while critics say doing so ignores the involvement of those states in slavery.
The specialty plates were denied twice by the state. A Texas Department of Transportation panel voted down the specialty plates when the group first applied for them in August 2009, but the group re-applied when the program was turned over to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. A board there deadlocked on an initial vote and at a second meeting heard from a number of residents, most of them opposed to the application. The board then unanimously voted against granting the specialty license plate, spurring the group to sue on constitutional grounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Of course, Perry has sold out on much more than just the license plate.
Does this have anything to do with the contemporary Texas secessionist movement?
I don't recall seeing any flags there. Unless the Branch Davidians had one.
I don't need to see a skunk either to know when one has been around. I'll bet you don't think Hillary is running either. Or Christie.
/johnny
Concurring bump.
Perry is stumping in New Hampshire & Iowa, attending big donor dinners, and hiring consultants from previous GOP presidential campaigns.
If he's not running for President then he's wasting a lot of time and money.
Because we know that politicians never, ever lie right?
Why can’t folks just get past this crap??!?
Because we live in an age where people have concluded that they have a Constitutional right not to be annoyed. And that their right trumps anyone elses.
Go to Texas where many car horns play La Cucaracha
i am from nc,i have had scv tag for 14 years or sice they came out i am a lifetime member of scv,no problems i did have one guy ask me if he could take a picture of it.
On the contrary.. politicians almost always lie.
/johnny
I doubt the Supremes will touch this at all. It is not really a federal issue in its current form. And because they get a bottleneck of some 8,000 cases appealed to them each year, they are very selective.
I wouldn’t want to have car trouble in the wrong parts of Houston with that plate.
LOL!
Seems this is Texas Atty Gen Abbott’s doing... who is running for Gov...not Rick Perry.
I’m dealing with some whiners on ThinkProgress (yeah, a contradiction in regards to the people who claim the title) on this very subject. The article and many of the commentators are calling what the Confederates did an act of treason.
So far, I haven’t gotten a logical response when I point out how the British felt about the Thirteen Colonies declaring independence.
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