Gov. McAuliffe Moves to Ditch Confederate Plates

[user12345]

“Even its display on state issued license tags is, in my view, unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people."-Gov. McAuliffe. A great decision by a FF governor. http://huff.to/1NgQgZA

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

By all means, stop issuing the plates with the flag on them, but to go through the process of replacing the ones that are already on the road is a disproportionate response.   Apart from the logistical cost of the replacement itself, these specialty plates have an extra cost to the purchaser of them - Are they going to be reimbursed now from the Commonwealth's treasury?  What happens if people refuse to replace them?   This policy too would be unnecessarily divisive.

[Rockefeller GOP]

“Even its display on state issued license tags is, in my view, unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people."-Gov. McAuliffe. A great decision by a FF governor. http://huff.to/1NgQgZA

The difference in reaction between Gov. Haley and this by Atlas should be priceless.

[WVdemocrat]

This is a fantastic decision on his part, but it should not have taken the shooting in SC to get this done.

I'm staying consistent, Rocky.

[RogueBeaver]

Great news.

[user12345]

Gov. McCrory follows suit: http://abc11.tv/1Bzx6N4
Gov. Hasam: http://tnne.ws/1GG4C3l
Gov. Hogan: http://bsun.md/1HdDH0b
Gov: Deal wants a redesign: http://on-ajc.com/1K93EyQ

[Mehmentum]

This is a fantastic decision on his part, but it should not have taken the shooting in SC to get this done.

I'm staying consistent, Rocky.

Actually, Virginia was under court order to provide Confederate flag license plates until very recently.  This policy couldn't have been changed until the June 18th Supreme Court decision labeling license plates as government speech, not private speech.  

But yeah, shame on McAuliffe for waiting 5 days.

[WVdemocrat]

This is a fantastic decision on his part, but it should not have taken the shooting in SC to get this done.

I'm staying consistent, Rocky.

Actually, Virginia was under court order to provide Confederate flag license plates until very recently.  This policy couldn't have been changed until the June 18th Supreme Court decision labeling license plates as government speech, not private speech.  

But yeah, shame on McAuliffe for waiting 5 days.

Ah, I didn't know that. Good on Governor McAuliffe for expediting this then.

It's still a shame that it took this tragedy to spur Governor Haley into action.

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The thing is Virginia really swung to the left recently. Just a decade ago, they had a US Senator (George Allen) who was a total neo-confederate.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

The thing is Virginia really swung to the left recently. Just a decade ago, they had a US Senator (George Allen) who was a total neo-confederate.

Fortunately, Jim Webb dealt him a good thrashing.

[Mr. Illini]

“Even its display on state issued license tags is, in my view, unnecessarily divisive and hurtful to too many of our people."-Gov. McAuliffe. A great decision by a FF governor. http://huff.to/1NgQgZA

The difference in reaction between Gov. Haley and this by Atlas should be priceless.

Hmm...I wonder if it could possibly because one of them previously publicly defended the use of the flag while the other did not?

FF decision by a FF

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The thing is Virginia really swung to the left recently. Just a decade ago, they had a US Senator (George Allen) who was a total neo-confederate.

who had a term as governor right after a black man.