For different reasons, I think the Governor is right on this one. As Governor, he shouldn’t be in the business of regulating what people propose. It’s regulating Free Speech if he does that. Essentially anyone can propose any idiotic thing they want (a Dirty Diaper License plate for instance)…
Getting the State DMV or Legislature to accept it… Is a whole different story.
With that said, however – that doesn’t let Barbour off the hook for his close ties with neo-confederate and white supremacist groups.
Haley Barbour Won’t Denounce KKK Plates
Haley Barbour doesn’t think Mississippi’s legislature will approve the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ proposed license platehonoring Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest—but he’s not going denounce the proposal. The state’s NAACP has called on Barbour to do so, the AP reports, but when asked about it, the governor replied, “I don’t go around denouncing people. That’s not going to happen.” Pressed further, he added, “I know there’s not a chance it’ll become law.”
Needless to say, the NAACP wasn’t satisfied with the response. “I find it curious that the governor won’t come out and clearly denounce” the proposal, the group’s Mississippi president said. “As the head of the state, he shouldn’t tap dance around the question.” The incident comes just months after Barbour sparked controversy by saying that he didn’t remember segregated Mississippi as being “that bad.” For more on the license plate controversy, click here.
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Regionalism is returning with a vengance, the only problem my friend is all the bad side effects of global market is going to hit all regions. Rising Food Prices, Cost of Energy, The South and the So. West more so. Why these old meme are on the rise. I guess the neo-conf will trade with Germany? There is 80% unemployment in Oglala the Sioux, Dakotas.
I commend his decision. If General Forrest was just a klansman–then the opposing argument may of been valid.