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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 03:17 AM Nov 2015

Some stand against Confederate plate recall (MD)

BRITTANY BRITTO, CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE
5:52 p.m. EST November 12, 2015

... Maryland Attorney General .. Frosh announced in mid-October that all Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates featuring the Confederate flag will be recalled per a federal judge’s ruling ... The recall makes Maryland the third state to ban the license plates ...

... the new law requires owners of the plates to trade them for new ones, without Confederate flags, at no cost. The .. Motor Vehicles Administration will notify owners .. via letters, giving them 30 days to replace their tags ...

Buel Young, public information officer for the .. Motor Vehicle Administration, said .. 173 Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates exist within the state.

“This flag is a painful symbol that divides us, conjuring images of hate and subjugation,” Frosh said in a statement ...


http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2015/11/12/confederate-plate-recall/75671856/

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