Iowa County GOP Members Resign Over Confederate Flags On Parade Float

[DonViejo]

Two members of the Marion County Republican committee resigned on Monday after they flew three Confederate flags from the county GOP's float in a local Independence Day parade on Saturday, the Des Moines Register reported.

Owen and Linda Golay, both members of the Marion County, Iowa, Republicans' central committee, pulled the GOP's parade float behind their truck, from which they hung three Confederate flags. Owen Golay also hung signs detailing the congressional acts that have recognized Confederate veterans. In the float behind the Golays' truck, Republican party members held campaign signs for GOP candidates, including Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), according to the Des Moines Register.

Owen Golay said that he flew the flags to point out that Confederate veterans are still veterans.

"This was my whole point with this whole exercise: to represent a segment of American veterans that are being buried in history, three of which are buried in Marion County," he told the Des Moines Register. "We got a lot of cheers, thumbs up. Some people stood up and clapped," Golay added. "We got a lot of support for that."

The co-chair of the Marion County GOP, T. Waldmann-Williams, did not object to the flags when she first saw them in the parade on Saturday, according to the Des Moines Register. "I decided on freedom of speech, thinking of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and all of that, that they were owners of the trailer," she told the Des Moines Register.

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[Human101948]

1. Veterans of an army that tried to destroy the U.S.A.!

Enemies of the great American nation! No different than the Japs and Nazis! Do we have monuments to the S.S.?

[brush]

5. I don't get why these people don't know that the confederates were traitors?

And white supremacists. It's written in the declarations of secession of each rebel state that they were fighting to keep their enslaved people in bondage under the supreme white race.

They raised arms against their own country. That is treason, pure and simple, and you would think not something to be proud of.

[malaise]

2. Just like Trump and immigration

they can't face the scrutiny re this racist flag - not after the massacre of nine African Americans in church.
It's fun watching re[v]THUGs impale themselves on flag poles because their base is as racist as it is anti-immigrant. Were that not true Boehner would have condemned their birther crap publicly years ago.

[mercuryblues]

3. uhmm what?

Owen Golay said that he flew the flags to point out that Confederate veterans are still veterans.

Veterans of what country? Surely not the one they seceded from and started a war against. That they LOST. I would say the Golays stuck the Q-tips to far in their ears and ruptured their brain matter.

[tazkcmo]

4. Screw the Confederacy.

And their flag. This veteran is sickened that on our county's "birthday" some would pay homage to those that would have destroyed it so that they could own people. BARF.

[GeorgeGist]

6. Racists overwhelmingly vote Republican.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Can someone please explain Iowa's history re: Civil War to these morons?

"Iowa supported the Union during the Civil War, voting heavily for Abraham Lincoln, though there was a strong antiwar "Copperhead" movement among settlers of southern origins and among Catholics.[citation needed] There were no battles in the state, although the battle of Athens, Missouri, 1861, was fought just across the Des Moines River from Croton, Iowa, and shot from the battle landed in Iowa. Iowa sent large supplies of food to the armies and the eastern cities."

Much of Iowa's support for the Union can be attributed to Samuel J. Kirkwood, its first wartime governor. Of a total population of 675,000, about 116,000 men were subjected to military duty. Iowa contributed proportionately more men to Civil War military service than did any other state, north or south, sending more than 75,000 volunteers to the armed forces, over one-sixth of whom were killed before the South surrendered at Appomattox.[53]

Most fought in the great campaigns in the Mississippi Valley and in the South.[54] Iowa troops fought at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, Pea Ridge in Arkansas, Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Rossville Gap as well as Vicksburg, Iuka, and Corinth. They served with the Army of the Potomoc in Virginia and fought under Union General Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Many died and were buried at Andersonville. They marched on General Nathaniel Banks' ill-starred expedition to the Red River. Twenty-seven Iowans have been awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government, which was first awarded in the Civil War."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa

[Gothmog]

8. These people were idiots for putting the Confederate flag on that float