The SC Senate Could Be A Roadblock To a Flag Removal [View all]
The South Carolina House of Representatives is expected to move quickly this week to amend an adjournment resolution so that lawmakers can immediately take up the latest controversy surrounding the Confederate flag. According to our sources, the House has the two-thirds majority necessary to address the flag by amending the legislature’s “sine die” resolution – which went into effect when the S.C. General Assembly adjourned earlier this month.
(This is precisely the scenario we laid out – and encouraged – in this column).
But will the State Senate follow suit? S.C. Senator Lee Bright has made it clear he opposes taking down the flag – referring to the effort to remove it as a “Stalinist purge.” Meanwhile the Senate’s majority leader – Harvey Peeler – angrily left a meeting on Monday with S.C. governor Nikki Haley, who reversed her prior support for the flag and called for it to come down (news of which was reportedly exclusively here on FITS).
Peeler did not stand with Haley at her press conference Monday afternoon.
Nor did S.C. lieutenant governor Henry McMaster – who presides over the Senate and (despite calls for him to withdraw) remains a member of a prominent “whites only” country club in Columbia, S.C.
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If Haley tries to lead them, she could sink the whole thing with her skills. She has called for people to vote several of them out and they are GOPeas. They are also Senators with a lot of power.
She couldn't round up a BBQ sammich in Columbia much less votes.
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