Georgia's new flag.
Posted on 08/04/2006 6:53:00 AM PDT by cowboyway
In a runoff that could decide who controls the Clayton County Commission for the next two years, District 4 candidate Lee Scott has tried to tie his white opponent to the Confederate flag.
That opponent, Michael Edmondson, said the charge is ridiculous and said voters Tuesday will not be fooled by the tactic.
A political flyer signed by Scott claims Edmondson walked under the Confederate flag at a recent parade in Jonesboro.
While the flyer offers no photos of Edmondson with a Confederate flag, it did paste his face on top of the Confederate emblem.
The flyer reads, “Confederate flags belong in the museum not being paraded in these county streets in 2006. That is what the challenger did three weeks ago. He was the Grand Master of the entire event and marched and paraded under the Confederate flag here in Jonesboro this July 4th.”
Edmondson said there was no truth to the allegation and said it is dirty politics.
“It is sad that our political process would be reduced to something like this. The people are smarter and the voters know that this is not true.
“I am not the grand master of anything, nor have I ever been,” he said.
Edmondson said that he did participate in Jonesboro’s 4th of July parade and rode in a black Mustang convertible. He said there were no Confederate flags near him. He said he attended no other parades that day. Edmondson said that right after the parade, he went to a county sponsored function at The Beach at Clayton County and then to a homeowner’s association gathering in his neighborhood.
At the bottom of the flyer, it shows Scott’s photo next to Edmondson’s picture with the Confederate flag in the background with the caption “The Confederate Flag man?” underneath.
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No mention of party....therefore must be a DUmocrat.
It said that it was a runoff and I assumed that they were both Rats and they didn't state Scott's race which I assumed to be black since they did mention his opponents race as white.
Either way, it's just another example of how the Confederate flag is used to imply racism.
No. Wrong.
The state adopted a new flag in 2003.
The state adopted a new flag in 2003.
Well, hell. I missed that. Did the old flag go down without a fight?
Huge fight. The Governor promised a state wide vote on which flag to run up the pole and then changed his mind during the legislative battle.
He is up for reelection this year and it doesnt seem to have hurt his chances.
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Which is worse.....being seen with a flag or being a member of the NAAALCP?
The first is construed as a racist symbol while the later is a defacto racist organization.
Also, what of the Dems' coveted "separation of church and state".
Double standard at work here.
Georgia's new flag.
Actually he's technically right. The new Georgia flag is based on the Confederate "First National" flag, which is what's correctly called the "Stars and Bars." It's got the same three red-white-red stripes and blue field as the First National; in place of the seven white stars on the Confederate flag, the Georgia state flag has the state seal.
What everybody calls the "Confederate flag"--the blue St. Andrews Cross with the thirteen white stars--was actually the Army of Northern Virginia's battle standard. That was a square banner. The rectangular version was the Confederate Navy's naval jack. The St. Andrews Cross design was used on the upper left-hand corner of the Confederacy's Second National (white field) and Third National (white field with a red vertical stripe down the extreme right-hand side) flags. But the cross itself was never a national flag, it was a battle flag.
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"In a runoff that could decide who controls the Clayton County Commission for the next two years, District 4 candidate Lee Scott has tried to tie his white opponent to the Confederate flag."
Sounds to me like the person who wrote this piece has a HUGE problem with their colors...
And the rectangular flag of the Army of Tennessee (the second largest Confederate army, IIRC) and the rectangular flag of a number of individual units in other armies.
a VERY SIMILAR battle-flag was carried by GA troops during the WBTS! that flag was designed by WILLIAM PORCHER MILES in 1861.
placed side by side, it would be difficult to tell which was the "new" vs. "old" GA flag. they are THAT similar.
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I think this is the WBTS version
and a couple of other star-for-states version
Well, you and stand are right. You can hardly tell them apart.
Civil War Flag, Georgia Flag Pre 1879 Flag
stand is always right
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I personally liked the post 1956 GA flag with the St Andrews Cross prominently displayed. However, I accept the historical significance of the current flag as a Confederate flag also with the state Arch and In God We Trust added to localize the flag.
It is light years ahead of the blue rag pushed down our throats by the now unemployed former Governor Roy Barnes.
almost EVERY CSA unit had their OWN colors (even SOME of the COMPANIES had their own flag!). NONE of the PACSA unit colors were APPROVED by the central government. MOST were not even approved by their STATE, parish, county or city.
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the "place-mat" was UGLY!
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That's the whole point. Scott, who I assume is black, knows that he can get away with portraying his opponent, a white man, as a racist by claiming that Edmondson was in a parade that featured a Confederate Flag. And the dirty part of this is that it doesn't even have to be true.
To make matters worse, Edmondson has distanced himself from the Confederate flag, implying an acknowledged racism tie.
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news media "creatures" will DO/SAY anything to sell "soap"!
that's why, absent PROOF, i believe about 1% of what they write/post/broadcast.
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