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Letter: In praise of Confederate flag

In today's Shoshone News Press, there's a lengthy letter from Patricia Wolford of Mullan, Idaho, filling half of page three, that praises the Confederate flag and tells flag protester Jon Ruggles to "consider packing up your hybrid car and with all your earth-friendly possessions and your degree in multiculturalism and head back to the state that is populated with enough stupid people to re-elect Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown as their governor." You can read Wolford's entire rant here. Ruggles, as you may recall, attracted the ire of some in the Silver Valley by protesting the Confederate flags posted above the front license plate and on the back window of a personal pickup owned by a Shoshone County transfer station employee. The employee parked the offending vehicle in a prominent place at the landfilll on Martin Luther King Jr Day in January.

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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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