Confederate License Plates

Florida Confederate A Florida panhandle lawmaker wants the state to offer "Confederate Heritage" license plates.

by The Associated Press

Published: Mon, February 25, 2008 - 1:55 pm CST

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A Panhandle lawmaker wants a
"Confederate Heritage" license plate to join the 109 specialty
tags already available in Florida.
The extra $25 motorists would pay for the tag would go to
educational programs run by Sons of Confederate Veterans, graveyard
maintenance and museum exhibits.
Rep. Donald Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, filed the bill (HB 1007)
last week. The plate would feature a shield displaying the rebel
battle flag symbol surrounded by several flags from the Civil War
era. He says it would give motorists a way to show pride in their
heritage.
Brown says his bill has nothing to do with race. He pointed out
that he filed another bill that would rename part of a highway in
Walton County after black civil rights leader the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

AP-NY-02-25-08 1350EST

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GJ Tisdale Says:

Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 6:52 pm

The license plate is good and valid because the Confederate Soldiers were honourable and decent men who fought for the right to govern themselves just as their fathers and grandfathers before them who fought for the same principles in the American Revolution!If you’re upset about this,wait until y’all see the monument with the 139’ flag pole with what will be the world’s largest flying Confederate Battle Flag flapping in the breeze next to I-75 in Hillsborough County, Florida! P.S. Go to http://www.florida-scv.org/tampafaf.pdf