Beauvior administrator helping push to keep Confederate emblem on state flag (MS)

[struggle4progress]

By Warren Kulo
on August 26, 2015 at 3:19 PM
updated August 26, 2015 at 4:26 PM

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Greg Stewart, administrator of Beauvior, is among a group of people seeking a ballot initiative which would keep the Confederate battle emblem within the Mississippi state flag ...

Stewart told the Associated Press Wednesday he is concerned the state legislature might vote to change the flag before the initiative could come to a vote -- which could be as much as three years away -- and thus the term "current" flag would no longer be a valid description of the flag in use today ...

This isn't the first time Stewart has supported a push to keep or honor symbols of Mississippi's Confederate past.

In 2011, Stewart, a former attorney who was disbarred after pleading guilty to a federal extortion charge, helped lead an effort by the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to have the legislature approve a specialty car tag honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Forrest tag was rejected by legislators ...

http://www.gulflive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/beauvior_administrator_helping.html

[struggle4progress]

1. Mississippi voters may decide whether Confederate emblem stays on state flag

By The Associated Press
on August 26, 2015 at 4:59 PM

Organizers of a new ballot initiative are seeking to keep the Confederate battle emblem on Mississippi's flag by putting the flag design into the state constitution.

A statewide vote could be more than three years away ...

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/mississippi_voters_may_decide.html