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Va. Gov. moves to strip Confederate flag from license plates
WTOP ^ | 06/23/2015 | WTOP Staff

Posted on 06/23/2015 8:16:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Virginia will begin the process to remove the Confederate flag from state-issued license plates, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Tuesday, calling the emblem divisive and hurtful.

McAuliffe said that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows states to decide which emblems to allow or not allow on license plates. He said that the decision supersedes previous federal court rulings that required Virginia to issue Sons of the Confederate Veterans plates that include the iconic image of the red flag with a blue X.

His announcement comes a day after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state’s capitol in Columbia.

“As Gov. Haley said yesterday, her state can ill afford to let this symbol continue to divide the people of South Carolina. I believe the same is true here in Virginia,” McAuliffe said in a statement. “Even its display on state issued license tags is, in my view, unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people. ”

Virginia does not fly the flag of the former confederacy at its state capitol in Richmond, once the capital of the South. But in 1999, the General Assembly allowed the specialty license plates for the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Although the legislation attempted to preclude the flag from being displayed on these plates, court rulings forced the state to allow a depiction of the banner.

McAuliffe says that he’s directed state transportation officials to devise a plan to replace these plates “as quickly as possible.”

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ refusal to issue a license plate displaying the flag and rejected a free-speech challenge. The court found that Texas can limit the content of plates because they are state property.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: dixie; mcauliffe; purge; virginia
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1 posted on 06/23/2015 8:16:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Well the Left finally got their perfect Poster Child.
One stupid A##hole and they pounce.


2 posted on 06/23/2015 8:17:33 AM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: GIdget2004

People who want to keep it should force a vote on the ballot.


3 posted on 06/23/2015 8:17:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Kozak

Reichstag Boy got his way.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 8:18:40 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux

http://www.wnd.com/2010/09/209597/


5 posted on 06/23/2015 8:19:41 AM PDT by golux
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To: cripplecreek

“People who want to keep it should force a vote on the ballot.”

The Supreme Court just said last week that the state has the right to control what is on the license plates.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 8:21:52 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

It’s a Democrat flag. Let them own it.


7 posted on 06/23/2015 8:23:37 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: GIdget2004

“...unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people.”

I was unaware of the state’s mandate to prevent divisive and hurtful speech.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 8:24:01 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: GIdget2004

There’s a black guy in our town who likes to dress up in a confederate uniform and march back and fourth across the interstate crossing carrying a large confederate flag. I wonder how much harassment he gets.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 8:25:08 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: Kozak

People of the South, the Left is going to hang this albatross around your necks.

I know it’s not right and my experience has been that most Southerners are polite and tolerant towards others. As well, I’ve seen more hate and intolerance here in the Northeast.

But this crazy redneck, shooting up that church, has done irreparable damage to the image of Southerners, who are mostly good people, and that’s a shame.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 8:27:30 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: cripplecreek

That’s a political non-starter. Those who feel passionately about the issue (for the flag on the license plates) are a much smaller number that those who might feel alienated by the issue, although they are less passionate on it. What politician would want to align himself with such a calculus?


11 posted on 06/23/2015 8:29:00 AM PDT by bagman
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To: GIdget2004
Va. Gov. moves to strip Confederate flag from license plates

Behold the power of this fully operational Media Death Star.

12 posted on 06/23/2015 8:29:03 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: GIdget2004

MrCO family from the south. They are highly upset at this.


13 posted on 06/23/2015 8:29:54 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: GIdget2004
The Supreme Court just said last week that the state has the right to control what is on the license plates.

Sure. But it doesn't have the power to allow some, and forbid others. That is a 14th amendment violation of equal protection/application of the law.

14 posted on 06/23/2015 8:30:18 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

Well the people did elect him.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 8:30:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: Kozak
When I was a boy, people used to wonder how an intelligent, industrious & highly educated people, such as the Germans, could be stampeded into giving a fanatic Austrian Socialist, dictatorial powers, after his supporters used the antics of a mentally disordered Communist to burn the German Parliament.

No it is obvious that burning the Parliament is very serious--as is murdering nine innocent civilians at a Church Bible study. But the space cadet in Charleston, is no more a rational spokesman for anything than was the Communist dupe in Berlin in 1933. That American politicians feel the need to ape the German panic to attack liberty & freedom of expression, in this manner, may tell us more of the future than any loyal American even wants to imagine.

16 posted on 06/23/2015 8:31:43 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: GIdget2004

Taking the Confederate flag off license plates is one thing and is within the purview of state authority... however here in Virginia we have a plethora of Civil War reenactments. If Clinton’s bagman Fast Terry tries to ban the Stars and Bars there, he’s going to have a problem on his hands.


17 posted on 06/23/2015 8:32:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: SamAdams76
But this crazy redneck, shooting up that church, has done irreparable damage to the image of Southerners, who are mostly good people, and that’s a shame.

No, it's the media that is doing the damage. Every one of them is a Northeaster, Urban dwelling, Liberal Democrat Union member in position to control what the public gets to hear.

They have a monopoly on the only effective communication system with the American people. They effectively deny freedom of speech to conservatives because they own the only means of communicating on a mass scale.

It's long past time we should be filing RICO and "contributions in kind" lawsuits against these liberal propaganda agents.

18 posted on 06/23/2015 8:33:18 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: golux

I posted #16 before I saw your quip.


19 posted on 06/23/2015 8:33:45 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: sport
While he's at it, better get rid of this...

 photo Seal_of_Virginia.svg_zps0dvc6sdi.png

Could also be viewed as hateful and divisive...
20 posted on 06/23/2015 8:34:19 AM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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