Georgia lawmaker: Talk of ditching Confederate statues could cause Democrat to 'go missing'
Source: AJC
A Georgia Republican lawmaker warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she won’t be “met with torches but something a lot more definitive” if she continues to call for the removal of statues in south Georgia.
State Rep. Jason Spencer, a Woodbine Republican, also wrote former state Rep. LaDawn Jones that “people in South Georgia are people of action, not drama” and suggested some who don’t understand that “will go missing in the Okefenokee.”
“Too many necks they are red around here,” he wrote. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you about ’em.”
Jones, who represented an Atlanta-based district from 2012 to 2016, responded that she saw his remarks as a “threat of physical violence” but said she was confident that future generations will abandon a “we are better than them” mentality.
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Read more: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/
Jones is black.
Spencer said later that his words weren't a threat but just a "warning" of "how people can behave about this issue." He said that because she's from Atlanta, she doesn't understand how the rest of Georgia feels. He claims he's trying to "keep her safe" so she won't "raise hell about the memorial in the back yards of folks who will see this as an unwelcome aggression from the left."
Soooooo nice of him...
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Good ol' blob State Rep. Jason Spencer.
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