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Dream
Joined: 23 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: Firm's Mexican flag banned at energy fair |
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| Quote: | http://www.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_4812974,00.html
Firm's Mexican flag banned at energy fair
By Scott Mobley, Record Searchlight
June 30, 2006
Saying the vendors were making a political statement, Redding officials refused to let a local landscaping firm display a Mexican flag during the recent City Services and Energy Fair.
Gringo Dave's features crossed Mexican and American flags on its business cards and letterhead. The firm's south Redding headquarters also displays large American and Mexican flags on an office wall.
Dave Kirkman and an employee had pinned the flags to the booth they were setting up for the fair on the City Hall plaza last Friday, the day before the event.
The two had left to fetch the firm's banner back at the office. They returned to their booth at City Hall to find that Pam Brady, a Redding Electric Utility employee, had taken the Mexican flag down and folded it up, Kirkman said.
Pat Keener -- the customer and energy services manager for Redding Electric who oversees the event -- verified that city employees had removed the Mexican flag. Gringo Dave's was a guest of the city's, and recent immigration debates have sharpened people's feelings, Keener said. The city did not want any trouble.
"This was not a political rally but an energy fair," Keener said. "It was not a place to have any kind of political statement. We did not think that showing a Mexican flag was anywhere near appropriate for what we were trying to accomplish at the energy fair."
Officials decided to remove the Mexican flag solely in the context of the energy fair, Keener said. The city does not have a blanket policy against displaying foreign flags
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cornbread
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I'm so sick of seeing cars with the Mexican flag pasted all over them, here in AMERICA!  Now, I'm seeing alot of the Chinese flag stickers pasted all over cars. To me, these people do not deserve to walk the streets of this country, much less drive around in those cars with foreign flags all over them! I say that if you love another country so much more that you put that flag on your house and your car, you need to go back to that country and stay the hell outta mine! |
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Cindy
Joined: 25 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The Mexican flag should be banned from America. I don't ever want to see antoher one hanging above an upside down American flag again. How dare the illegal invaders desecrate America with their flag. They make me sick! |
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