Florida mayor draws scrutiny after proposing 'Confederate Memorial Day'

[applegrove]

Florida mayor draws scrutiny after proposing 'Confederate Memorial Day'

BY RACHEL FRAZIN at the Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/437698-florida-mayor-draws-scrutiny-after-proposing-confederate-memorial-day

"SNIP....

A central Florida mayor has come under fire after proposing a "Confederate Memorial Day" celebration later this month. 

Ocala Mayor Kent Guinn (R) on Tuesday signed a proclamation making April 26 "a time in which to honor the memories of those who sacrificed their lives in the War Between States," The Washington Post reported Friday.

The paper noted that such language is often used to minimize Confederate wrongdoings. 

After Guinn signed the order, which was not required to go through a vote, Ocala City Council President Mary Sue Rich dissented.

.....SNIP"

[Ohiogal]

1. Oh FFS.

How tone deaf do you have to be? This guy is a mayor????

[ck4829]

2. When is Al Qaeda memorial day?

Let's salute the soldiers... on both sides.

[Anon-C]

3. More on the Mayor of Ocala...

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-florida-mayor-confederate-memorial-day-20190404-story.html

"Another Ocala City Council member, Mary Sue Rich, wondered aloud whether allegations made by the Anonymous hacking collective in 2015 that Mayor Guinn had links to the KKK were true, according to Ocala.com, the online home of the Ocala Star Banner newspaper."

[The Genealogist]

4. American cities should not be celebrating traitors

Sick.

[Takket]

5. What about the Japanese squadron that attacked Pearl Harbor?

When do they get their memorial day? As long as we are handing out holidays to groups that waged war against the USA and killed our citizens.

[klook]

6. What, not in mid-January?

That’s what these cretins usually like for a Traitorous Loser Memorial Day. Or, hey, an even better idea: why not the whole month of February?!

[dlk]

7. Honoring Those Who Committed Treason and Supported Slavery...

It doesn’t get much lower than that.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Effing Florida.

Is anyone really surprised ?

[rockfordfile]

9. It was the USA vs traitors. A memorial for traitors. USA wouldn't exist if we lost