Flashback To That Time Va. Gov. McAuliffe Defended Confederate Statues

Nick Kangadis | August 23, 2017
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Uh oh. Somebody's got some 'splainin to do!

While Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has embarked on his "remove everything offensive" tour, he was singing a different tune just two years ago.

McAuliffe went on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" back in June of 2015 to talk about Confederate statues and Confederate flags on Virginia license plates. While McAuliffe did say that he believed the Confederate flag being featured on one of Virginia's (voluntarily purchased) specialty license plates was "hurtful," the governor ardently defended Confederate statues in the state as part of Virginia's heritage.

Here are McAuliffe's comments from the Mitchell interview:

I am sticking just with the license plates because I do think that is a message that is so hurtful, that flag, to folks. But not statues. I mean, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, these are all parts of our heritage. And the people that were in that battle, the Civil War, many of them were in it obviously for their own reasons that they had for that. But leave the statues and those things alone.

Interesting. So what changed, Terry?

To be fair, McAuliffe is most likely just caving in to pressure from the perennially offended. It's probably best he take up residence on a beach, because he's certainly wearing his flip-flops these days.

 

 

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