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Confederate Flag Fan Scott Earns Trib Jeer

In this Facebook photo that was posted on her personal and legislative Facebook pages, Heather Scott proudly displays the Confederate flag at Priest River Timber Days in July.
In this Facebook photo that was posted on her personal and legislative Facebook pages, Heather Scott proudly displays the Confederate flag at Priest River Timber Days in July.

In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives JEERS ... to freshman state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard:

"She just wrapped herself in the symbol of racism and slavery -- the Confederate Battle Flag. Literally. Consider the timing -- July 25 at Priest River Timber Days:

  • As in more than a month after the massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by an alleged assassin who posed with the battle flag and posted a racist screed jarred the Old South into reality.
  • As in more than two weeks after South Carolina Gov. Nikki R. Haley and that state's Legislature removed the flag from the Statehouse grounds, providing the nation a ray of hope toward racial reconciliation.

In case you missed it, Scott made sure to drape a campaign banner - with her name and title in life-size letters -- beneath her. In case you missed it, Scott posted a photo of the event on her Facebook page. "Protecting and promoting our freedom of speech is an honor," she wrote. Free speech? Hardly." Full Cheers & Jeers column here.

Question: How do we end up with characters like this representing North Idaho?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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