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SC utility company bans Confederate flag
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South Carolina utility company bans Confederate flag
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (August 15, 2002 6:52 p.m. EDT) - South Carolina's largest utility has ordered 5,500 workers not to display the Confederate flag on company property and to keep company vehicles away from barbecue restaurants owned by an outspoken flag supporter.
Scana Corp. spokeswoman Cathy Love called both the flag and restaurant owner Maurice Bessinger "divisive." She wouldn't say whether Scana would fire workers for displaying the flag but that any flag display will be appropriately.
On Thursday, Bessinger said Scana's order was a "cowardly, unconstitutional act."
Scana, the parent of South Carolina Electric & Gas and other subsidiaries, has 5,480 employees. About half are in the Columbia area, where Bessinger's 11 Piggie Park restaurants are located.
Love said Scana employees can eat at the restaurants, but they'll be expected to park company vehicles somewhere else.
It's not the first boycott involving Bessinger, whose restaurants offer literature that includes one tract suggesting early Africans liked slavery. In 2000, major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Kroger stopped selling Bessinger's sauces.
Love said employee concerns triggered Scana's action, but she wouldn't discuss a specific complaint. She said the ban doesn't prevent workers from expressing views on their own time and away from company property.
Don Gordon, commander of the Wade Hampton Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said his group may sue Scana.
"This is a freedom of speech issue," he said. "It has fallen to the Sons of Confederate Veterans to defend our liberty."
http://www.nando.net/nation/story/500497p-3988250c.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Copyright c 2002 AP Online
READER NOTICE: User registration planned later this month
Search the archive for: South Carolina
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (August 15, 2002 6:52 p.m. EDT) - South Carolina's largest utility has ordered 5,500 workers not to display the Confederate flag on company property and to keep company vehicles away from barbecue restaurants owned by an outspoken flag supporter.
Scana Corp. spokeswoman Cathy Love called both the flag and restaurant owner Maurice Bessinger "divisive." She wouldn't say whether Scana would fire workers for displaying the flag but that any flag display will be appropriately.
On Thursday, Bessinger said Scana's order was a "cowardly, unconstitutional act."
Scana, the parent of South Carolina Electric & Gas and other subsidiaries, has 5,480 employees. About half are in the Columbia area, where Bessinger's 11 Piggie Park restaurants are located.
Love said Scana employees can eat at the restaurants, but they'll be expected to park company vehicles somewhere else.
It's not the first boycott involving Bessinger, whose restaurants offer literature that includes one tract suggesting early Africans liked slavery. In 2000, major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Kroger stopped selling Bessinger's sauces.
Love said employee concerns triggered Scana's action, but she wouldn't discuss a specific complaint. She said the ban doesn't prevent workers from expressing views on their own time and away from company property.
Don Gordon, commander of the Wade Hampton Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said his group may sue Scana.
"This is a freedom of speech issue," he said. "It has fallen to the Sons of Confederate Veterans to defend our liberty."
http://www.nando.net/nation/story/500497p-3988250c.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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