SC governor defends Confederate flag at Statehouse: Not ‘a single CEO’ has complained

[ashling]

During a South Carolina gubernatorial debate, Democratic candidate Sen. Vincent Sheheen called on the flag to be retired to a museum.

“I think the people of South Carolina are tired of having an image across America that’s not truly who we are,” Sheheen explained, adding that everyone should “rally together under a flag that unites us all, the American flag, that looks toward the future, and not the past.”


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“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,” the governor noted. “I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.”

Haley said that she had tried to improve the perception of the state by ordering employees to answer the phone with the phrase “it’s a great day in South Carolina.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/sc-governor-defends-confederate-flag-at-statehouse-not-a-single-ceo-has-complained/

[shenmue]

1. And if the rich people don't care, then it's not important!

[surrealAmerican]

2. She actually said that!

I was expecting this to be a parody.

[ashling]

3. SHE said that

[surrealAmerican]

4. fixed it

[Hortensis]

5. Incredible, but I checked and it was during a gubernatorial debate. Augusta Chronicle confirmed

she said it, although it didn't print the actual quote.

We know studies reveal today's politicians, especially GOP, pay no attention to wishes of lower classes, only some to the wishes of the upper middle class (who do vote and donate), but that what the wealthy/business want is almost everything. This little slip is just another demonstration of that.

We have to get money out of politics.

[johnnyreb]

6. Republicans, CEOs and slavery-- the natural Order.

"The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation. Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction." --Ulysses S. Grant

[Initech]

7. That's because southern CEOs would secretly love to bring back slavery if they could.

[raccoon]

8. The rich people are the only people whose opinions matter to Nimrata (her real name). nt