SCANA modifies Confederate flag policy;Maurice Offers 'Free Lunch' to SCANA Employees

WLTX ^ | 8/21/02 | WLTX

[PJeffQ]

SCANA officials are clarifying their position on the Confederate flag, even as Maurice Bessinger fires another volley against the company's policies.

A press released issued by SCANA Wednesday says the company has never banned the Confederate flag, or issued a ruling telling employees not to eat at certain restaurants.

CEO Bill Timmerman says the company's Code of Conduct tries to prevent divisive symbols which may harass other employees. Timmerman says as long as it's meant as heritage it would be okay for an employee to display a Confederate emblem while at work.

He also says employees can eat at Maurice Bessinger restaurants--just not in a company vehicle. He says it's in response to Bessinger's pro-slavery views.

In response, Bessinger released a press release Wednesday saying all SCE&G employees, the energy company that's a subsidiary of SCANA, could eat for free at his stores if they showed up in a company vehicle. If they bring their company identification, they can eat at half price.

[4CJ]

Hi Rika!

I ordered some the last time Maurice was in the news, just for spite because someone had the nerve to try and decide for me what I could purchase and from whom.

I KNEW there were more reasons to like you!

[varina davis]

Corporate America is so weak kneed.

Obviously, or so many wouldn't be in bed with Jesse Jackson and Co.

[CWRWinger]

Wal-Mart and SAM'S Club found that Mr. Bessinger's company is distributing materials that are contrary to one of our core principles, respect for the individual.

What barf. Walmart won't respond to questions about China and its core principles. And they sure do more busness with the commies than Maurice.

The same week WalMart banned Maurice's, Chinese social workers through a pregnant Chinese woman out a second story window to her death, because she refused to get an abortion.

The policy makers at Walmart are greedy PC, commie, pinko scum.

[PJeffQ]

It sure was big of SCANA in their original statement to say that employees answering a service call could take vehicles onto Bessinger's property....

When the original furor over Bessinger broke out the Lexington County Sheriff's Dept. got a complaint of a deputy's car in the lot while he ate there, the Sheriff blew it off.

[wardaddy]

Yep.

[wardaddy]

I think the company has every right to say that their vehicles are not to be seen in the parking lot of a certain business.

I agree. My family's business had a policy that no company trucks were to be parked out in front of titty bars...so everyone parked in back...LOL...me included many years ago.

The company's right is not the issue....it's their motivation and kneeling at the foot of the PC monster that aggravates most of us here.

[elcaudillo]

What a classy move on Maurice's part.

I purchase his sauces via the internet!

[elcaudillo]

Ah, mon capitan, you follow the dictates of Field Marshal Hitlary von Klinton. She never pays for anything and never leaves a tip!

[ravinson]

Is someone considered pro-slavery today because they like the Confederate flag...

Only if they know what the Confederacy stood for.

[4CJ]

I think the company has every right to say that their vehicles are not to be seen in the parking lot of a certain business.

Those SAME vehicles would park there to repair power lines, restore service etc.

[RikaStrom]

Hi 4CJ. :-)

I haven't talked to you in ages. How goes the battle?

I KNEW there were more reasons to like you!

LOL, awwww, you know me, getting told what to do and where I can do it always get's my feather's ruffled.

[PJeffQ]

Using that logic, liking the American flag would make someone racist today also...

[wardaddy]

Only if they know what the Confederacy stood for.

Bone of contention if I ever saw one...lol. I'm here to rail against the PC juggernaut today...not refight the war.

Regards....where's the rest of your posse?

[ravinson]

Using that logic, liking the American flag would make someone racist today also...

The US tolerated slavery for a long time but eventually abolished it, whereas the Confederacy was dedicated to preserving in perpetuity and propagating the institution of slavery.

[PJeffQ]

That's why it was legal in the states that didnt secede from the Union?

[ravinson]

That's why it was legal in the states that didnt secede from the Union?

Slavery was still legal in the border states in 1861 but threatened with impending abolition by the rising Radical Republican tide. That's why almost all of the slaveholders in the border states supported the Confederacy.

[PJeffQ]

it was still legal for a while after that was it not?

Why did the Emancipation proclamation exempt the parishes in LA that were under Federal control as well as the counties of WV?

[PJeffQ]

Who said the following?

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."



All of the above are the words of Abraham Lincoln