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

[kpete]

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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.”



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

[Cha]

1. Well that settles it then.. "not a single CEO has complained about the Confederate Flag".. she

has no idea how ignorant she sounds.

[yeoman6987]

6. This election is hardly on the raydar

Is she going to be defeated? I didn't even know she was up for reelection.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Translation...

If you're not a CEO, I don't give a crap about what you think.

[Scuba]

3. It's clear who Haley represents.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Is she saying we have lots of CEO's who are less sensitive than they should be or are the CEO's

Oblivious to the world around them. Either Haley used a very bad statement or it speaks badly of CEO's.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. That's because most CEOs already have a plantation mentality when it comes to their workers. n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

7. I was thinking along those lines as well

although I would include institutional slavery as well in the analogy.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. A real window on what Republicans do in office.

[Orsino]

10. Clearly we've been voting for the wrong CEOs. n/t

[SpankMe]

11. I think the tone-deaf lady...

...is attempting to say that no companies are boycotting South Carolina over the Confederate flag. Thus, no one is being hurt from it. Thus, why take it down?

Unfortunately, many are hurt by that flag, and it should be retired to a museum along with Nazi dinnerware.

[The Wizard]

12. If she were really honest

She'd just hand a fucking swastika over the State House. But alas, an honest Republican is about as common as a pterodactyl these days.