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

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) on Tuesday said that there was no need to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds because it was not an issue for CEOs, and the state had “fixed” racist perceptions by electing an Indian-American governor.

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.”

Haley responded that the Confederate flag was a “sensitive issue.”

“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.”

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

[TerrapinFlyer]

1. We need to contact CEO in South Carolina.. get them on the record!

This is a perfect opportunity to put Nikki Haley in the spotlight.

He has teed it up.. time to pull out the clubs!

[Crowman1979]

2. Further proof that the GOPers only care about corporations, and not people.

[marble falls]

3. No CEOs complained? Well alrighty, then. Because we all know how CEOs negatively affected by slavery

[reflection]

6. Seriously.

That is one of the most bizarre statements ever uttered, and bizarre language coming from Republicans is like woofing coming from a dog.

[Shemp Howard]

10. It actually reads like satire.

I wonder what's next. Maybe "I'm reducing corporate taxes to zero, and so far not a single CEO has complained."

[JI7]

4. I wonder if she feels grossed out having to do things like this

In order to keep support.

Probably not, as long as she benefits that's all that matters.

[jtuck004]

20. I am guessing there is nothing she wouldn't stoop to if the money keeps flowing.

She is one of the best reasons for out of control global warming I can think of, given the likely outcome.

[heaven05]

5. still fighting the civil war

and their loss of having the ability to enslave people against their will. When will this line of desire die in racists? Damn! Let's see-1865-2015=150 years. I guess never. They just don't care about how grossly ignorant and crude they appear. This type/portion/segment of amerikkkan culture be damned!!!!!!

[Bigmack]

17. BIGGEST mistake this country ever made was

not letting the south secede. There's no way legal slavery would have lasted into the 20th century in any case. I mean wage slavery survives...... But how sweet it would be to be rid of those ignorant m'thas. Ms Bigmack

[KingCharlemagne]

19. Um, you're throwing a hell of a lot of Americans under the bus (bondsmen freed

as a result of the Civil War) with that statement.

I could accept your proposal possibly if Southern secession were accompanied by universal chattel emancipation and universal right of freed bondsmen to relocate to the North.

Biggest mistake this country ever made, imo, was when Sherman and his troops burned the state of SC to the ground on his march north. Sherman should have instead transferred all land property and buildings thereon to the state's freed bondsmen with clear titles thereto. Any SC plantation owners objecting to that dispensation should have faced a hangman's noose. See, that's how you deal with treason and traitors: you take their property and dispossess them. Lincoln had far more charity to those treasonous bastards than I.

[LanternWaste]

24. I think the mistake was simply in stopping Radical Reconstruction in 1877.

I think the mistake was simply in stopping Radical Reconstruction in 1877.

I think your solution would set a bad precedent, and would have been illegal (regardless of what an "ignorant m'tha" may or may not think...)

[malthaussen]

7. I love it when Republicans inadvertently tell the truth. n/t

[mysuzuki2]

8. Is this from the Onion?

I swear it's getting harder to tell every day!

[DRoseDARs]

9. She was going for a "Jobs" angle with that, ended going up her own ass.

She was trying to say that employers weren't having trouble recruiting new employees because of the flag. This wasn't as clever a tactic as she thought it was...

[Aristus]

11. Yeah. And electing an African-American President rid America of racism, too!

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. "Fixed" racist perceptions!? That's a new one. And how is it that the CEOs opinions matter!?

Nikki certainly has figments in her imagination. Not a good choice as a leader.

[riversedge]

18. Well, susposedly we fixed racist folks cause we elected a Black

President.. Only made the racism worse as far as I can see.

[Dont call me Shirley]

25. Right, because we started out as a racist nation, moved a little away from racism,

now we're outwardly racist again. That's how we fixed it.

[Sancho]

13. I'm so embarrassed to have been raised in SC...

Nikki Haley is one of a current crop of off-the-wall crazies.

Actually, when I lived and worked in SC, there were plenty of racists and nuts, but there were also some pretty good Democratic politicians:

Senator Bryan Dorn was solid and I worked for Governor Richard Riley in the early 80's.

Nikki is the Southern Palin...

[KingCharlemagne]

21. Pretty sure Congressperson James Clyburn also hails from those parts. Of course, he's not

a part of the problem.

[Sancho]

22. Yep...Clyburn is still going I think.

It's just that I don't think Nikki could have been elected in SC in the 70's or even 80's.

[corkhead]

14. At least she's being honest about who butters her bread.

[mnhtnbb]

15. It continues to astonish me--shouldn't, I know--how utterly clueless Republicans can be.

Money, money, money and power, that's all they ever think about, all the time.
They are consumed by it.

[bullwinkle428]

16. Holy truth serum, Batman! I love it when they let their guard down.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. "Ford's in his flivver and all's right with the world !" nt

[Pennie109]

26. Hope Shaheen can win this year.

South Carolina is giving away millions of dollars by not accepting the Medicaid expansion. I guess she'd rather see people die and hospitals close. Our roads and bridges suck - she won't raise the gas tax so people from NC and GA cross over and buy gas. Nothing is done for this state except give tax breaks to huge corporations who bring jobs except they are minimum wage or hire temps. Usually they bring their own people for "the good jobs".

[tanyev]

27. No Carpetbagger Left Behind.