City of Baltimore - File #: 15-0243R

• File #: 15-0243R
• Version: 0
• Name: Commending the Removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Capitol Grounds
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 7/20/2015
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 7/20/2015
• Title: Commending the Removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Capitol Grounds FOR the purpose of commending the decision by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the state's legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Eric T. Costello, Carl Stokes, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Brandon M. Scott, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Confederate Flag, Removal, South Carolina Capitol Grounds

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/20/2015	0	City Council	Adopted
7/20/2015	0	City Council	Introduced

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Holton


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Commending the Removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Capitol Grounds
FOR the purpose of commending the decision by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the state's legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol.
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Recitals

Today we join in the nationwide commendation of the decision by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and the state?s legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol. With this decision, a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, the Confederate flag finally no longer flies over any seats of government.

As Governor Haley said in urging the flag?s removal:

This has been a very difficult time for our state we have stared evil in the eye and watched good, prayerful people killed in one of the most sacred of places. We were hurt and broken and we needed to heal. We were able to start that process, not by issues ? talking about issues that divide us, but by holding vigils. By hugging neighbors, by honoring those we lost, and by falling to our knees in prayer..

..Five years ago it was said in the last 50 years South Carolina is the state that has changed the most for the better. That was true when I quoted it at my first inauguration in 2011; it?s even more true today. ...