Van de Putte Company Dropping Confederate Flags
As major retailers abandoned sales of Confederate flag merchandise in the wake of the South Carolina church massacre, Pete Van de Putte — owner of Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company and husband of former state Senator and San Antonio mayoral candidate Leticia Van de Putte — eventually decided Tuesday that his company will stop selling the Civil War flag.
When first contacted Tuesday, Van de Putte said he had no plans to stop manufacturing the Confederate banner. Later in the day, however, he said "we've decided as an industry we don't need to fuel this fire. We're taking the product out completely."
Van de Putte said Dixie Flag will remove the flags immediately from the San Antonio store and its website.
Van de Putte's wife ran unsuccessfully last year for lieutenant governor as a Democrat. Earlier this month, she narrowly lost the runoff for mayor of San Antonio, a race in which her husband's flag-making store was briefly an issue. The San Antonio Express-News reported the business had more than$100,000 in tax liens over the past five years, an issue Pete Van de Putte said he fully resolved in the lead-up to the election.
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