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Flag protest attracts more barbs

Confederate flag sympathizers in the Silver Valley continue to bash Jon Ruggles for linking their beloved symbol to – racism. Ruggles? He’s the Wallace man who complained to Shoshone County higher-ups when he saw a county employee’s pickup parked in a prominent spot at the transfer station, sprouting two Confederate flags. On Martin Luther King Day, of all days. For his troubles, Ruggles and his wife have been scolded in the public square. The latest attack came in a half-page letter to the Shoshone News-Press Thursday by Patricia Wolford of Mullan.

Wolford defended the Confederate flag as a historical symbol of the proud South and told Ruggles to get lost. She concluded her wordy rant: “Maybe it is time for you to consider packing up your hybrid car with all your ‘earth friendly’ material possessions and your ‘degree’ in multi-nationalism and head back to the state that is populated with enough stupid people to re-elect Jerry ‘Moonbeam’ Brown as their governor.” This, from a woman who was born in Florida and obviously brought her Old South biases and flag with her to non-Confederate Idaho/DFO, Sunday Huckleberries/SR. More here.



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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