“Hopefully it ends here, and we move forward, and we can put all of this behind us”, said Hill, one of 27 House members who opposed removing the flag on a key vote. “We heard about the true honor of heritage and tradition”.
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“We will bring it down with dignity, and we will make sure it is stored in its rightful place”, Haley said.
Asked whether he would review Confederate statues around the state in the same way that the city of Baltimore is doing, Hogan said he “would have no interest in that”.
Officials from the athletic departments of South Carolina and Clemson, both public universities, called for the Confederate flag to be taken down last month in the wake of the June 17 slayings of nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
However, the removal of the flag was controversial and came with hours of contentious debate between South Carolina lawmakers. Speaking to NBC’s Today before the debate, she said, “When something like this happens, you reflect, and you say, ‘Have we changed enough?'”.
Rep. Jenny Horne (R-Summerville) saw what was happening and decided to take to the floor and turn the topic back to what prompted the special session: the killing of nine people during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
South Carolina lawmakers have voted to bring down the Confederate flag from the statehouse.
Haley said the remaining two pens were for her and thanked everyone present for attending.
“It’s just like the conclusion of the war itself”, Pitts said Thursday after the vote.
The House of Representatives voted 94-20 early Thursday to remove it.
“It was done in a way that was a win to everyone”, said Quinn, who voted for the bill.
Republican Mike Pitts fondly recalled playing with a Confederate ancestor’s cavalry sword while growing up.
The flag is scheduled to be lowered for good at 10 a.m. on Friday. It ultimately failed.
He says he plans to introduce some of these measures when the legislature returns in January. “That compromise, I will file a bill in January to continue that process”.
“I just don’t think the solution that came over from the senate is the solution that respects everybody”, South Carolina Rep. Eric Bedingfield/R-Greenville County said.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered legislation to remove all state flags containing any portion of the Confederate Battle Flag from the House side of the Capitol.
The last days of the Confederate flag on the State House grounds are here.
The shootings forced a change in Haley, too. But some expressed sadness that part of their heritage is being threatened. “And I don’t know that I knew how emotional it would be”.
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The flag has flown for 54 years at the capitol of the first state to secede from the United States, and the state where the Confederacy fired the first shots of the Civil War, in Charleston.
