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2. Tears, family memories emerge during Confederate flag debate

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Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:08 PM

Jul 2015

JOHN BAZEMORE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 8, 2015 Updated 6:45 p.m.
... Republican Rep. Jenny Horne reminded her colleagues she was a descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and scolded fellow members of her party for stalling the debate with dozens of amendments. She cried as she remembered the funeral of her slain colleague state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, who was gunned down with eight others as his wife and daughter locked themselves in an office. “For the widow of Sen. Pinckney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury and I will not be a part of it!” she screamed into a microphone ...
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/flag-670911-confederate-house.html

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