Georgia lawmaker: Talk of ditching Confederate statues could cause Democrat to 'go missing'
Source: AJC
A Georgia Republican lawmaker warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she wont be met with torches but something a lot more definitive if she continues to call for the removal of statues in south Georgia.
State Rep. Jason Spencer, a Woodbine Republican, also wrote former state Rep. LaDawn Jones that people in South Georgia are people of action, not drama and suggested some who dont understand that will go missing in the Okefenokee.
Too many necks they are red around here, he wrote. Dont say I didnt warn you about em.
Jones, who represented an Atlanta-based district from 2012 to 2016, responded that she saw his remarks as a threat of physical violence but said she was confident that future generations will abandon a we are better than them mentality.
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Read more: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/
Jones is black.
Spencer said later that his words weren't a threat but just a "warning" of "how people can behave about this issue." He said that because she's from Atlanta, she doesn't understand how the rest of Georgia feels. He claims he's trying to "keep her safe" so she won't "raise hell about the memorial in the back yards of folks who will see this as an unwelcome aggression from the left."
Soooooo nice of him...
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)dalton99a
(81,673 posts)Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)So why the hell shouldn't we reciprocate? Fire with Fire!
rurallib
(62,477 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Good ol' blob State Rep. Jason Spencer.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,674 posts)dchill
(38,594 posts)a monument or a fucking flag. We here in America don't commemorate treason and racism. #DealWithIt
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)KKK/redneck boasting:
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141848302
dubyadiprecession
(5,737 posts)but, glorifying the monuments to our nations traitors (Benedict Arnold's like Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee) that led those men to their deaths, is a definite no go with me. Take them down, along with all the confederate battle flags wherever they may be!
It's time for the south to join the rest of us in the 21st. century.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)broadcaster90210
(333 posts)nt
icymist
(15,888 posts)People need to be held accountable for words that threaten!
bucolic_frolic
(43,443 posts)sort of like damning with faint praise
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Some Confederates never got over the Civil War, and they made sure to program their descendants' minds accordingly.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)If anything happens to Jones, this creep should be first in the suspect list.
jpak
(41,760 posts)yup
mdbl
(4,976 posts)starring Rep Jason Spencer of Woodbine - a repuglican, naturally.
hurple
(1,307 posts)And should be treated as such
Send him to Gitmo!