SC Governor Defends Confederate Flag On Statehouse Grounds: It’s OK Because CEOs Haven’t Complained

Posted by | October 15, 2014 16:45 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics Top Stories

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said during a debate on Tuesday said that there’s no reason to remove the Confederate flag on the Statehouse grounds because it was not an issue for CEOs, according Raw Story.

In contrast, Democratic candidate Sen. Vincent Sheheen said, “I think the people of South Carolina are tired of having an image across America that’s not truly who we are.” He added that people should “rally together under a flag that unites us all, the American flag, that looks toward the future, and not the past.”

Haley said the Confederate flag was a “sensitive issue.” She continued to say, “What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state, I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.”

Haley admitted the state had an image problem in the past but said,”But we really kind of fixed all that when you elected the first Indian-American female governor. When we appointed the first African-American U.S. senator, that sent a huge message,” she said referring to Tim Scott.

Raw Story reports:

Independent libertarian candidate Steve French said that he believed in the concept of “individual liberty” when it came to the Confederate flag.

“So, if you want to paint your house in the Confederate flag, I am completely fine with that,” he remarked.

But French disagreed with Haley when it came to businesses, saying that he had spoken with entrepreneurs who refused to move to South Carolina because the state was perceived as a “backwoods good ol’ boy network.”

“And that flag, I think, represents a lot of division in this state, and we need to be coming together,” French observed.

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I’m sure Haley believes there is no racism in America because we elected an African American president, too. Problem solved.

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55 responses to SC Governor Defends Confederate Flag On Statehouse Grounds: It’s OK Because CEOs Haven’t Complained

  1. R J October 16th, 2014 at 01:16

    All right wingers are pro confederacy and believe that there was nothing wrong with slavery, lynching and Jim Crow

  2. R J October 16th, 2014 at 01:16

    All right wingers are pro confederacy and believe that there was nothing wrong with slavery, lynching and Jim Crow

  3. rg9rts October 16th, 2014 at 03:59

    And what would wonder woman have done if the CEO’s complained??? Pander to the basest of the base I suppose

  4. rg9rts October 16th, 2014 at 03:59

    And what would wonder woman have done if the CEO’s complained??? Pander to the basest of the base I suppose

  5. fahvel October 16th, 2014 at 04:05

    if a ceo is in accord, how can any one dispute the validity of the the f’n flag?

  6. fahvel October 16th, 2014 at 04:05

    if a ceo is in accord, how can any one dispute the validity of the the f’n flag?

  7. Red Eye Robot October 16th, 2014 at 14:13

    The Confederate flag first started flying over the state capital in 1962 under DEMOCRAT governor Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who then served in the united states senate for 38 years, (1966-2005)

  8. Red Eye Robot October 16th, 2014 at 14:13

    The Confederate flag first started flying over the state capital in 1962 under DEMOCRAT governor Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who then served in the united states senate for 38 years, (1966-2005)

    • tracey marie June 22nd, 2015 at 13:37

      are you capable of not deflecting and posting your stupid racist shit all the time?

  9. HatchAx June 19th, 2015 at 12:04

    Get your facts straight: you are right about the Democrats, you just have the wrong ones. It was segregationist Democrats (many of whom converted to the GOP with Strom Thurmond) passed a resolution to fly the flag permanently over the state house but Hollings denounced the bill (he couldn’t veto it, though it would have been overridden, because under South Carolina law, the governor has no control over the state house operations of the State House). Hollings had called for the flag to be removed for years & in his last re-election in 1998, flag supporters condemned both Hollings & his Republican Senate opponent for demanding the Confederate flag be removed from the State House grounds, so they urged a vote for a third party candidate—and I know all this because I covered the race in ’98 & even Confederate Heritage groups acknowledged that was the true history.

  10. CLR June 22nd, 2015 at 13:14

    It’s not flying over the capitol.

    In 1962, during his term as Governor, the Confederate battle
    flag was flown above the SC Statehouse underneath the U.S. and
    state flags where it would remain for thirty-eight years. In
    2000, the state legislature voted to move the flag from above
    the Statehouse to a Confederate soldiers’ monument in front of
    the building.

    http://www.carolana.com/SC/Governors/efhollings.html

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