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[SC] Flags not lowered to honor Parks
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| Last Edited | RP Nov 04, 2005 01:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - The State |
| News Date | Thursday, November 3, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Gov. Mark Sanford did not order flags lowered to half-staff over state buildings Wednesday in honor of Rosa Parks — a decision a leading black lawmaker called a “lack of respect.”
President Bush called for all U.S. flags over public buildings to be lowered Wednesday in honor of the funeral for the late civil rights pioneer. But Bush’s order has no authority over state government buildings.
Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said the governor had no option, because state law “spells out very clearly when the flags can and can’t be lowered.”
When Pope John Paul II died in April, Sanford’s office also said he did not have authority to lower the flag. The Legislature, which was in session at the time, quickly adopted a resolution ordering the flags to be lowered to half-staff in the pope’s honor.
But Sanford’s office lowered the flags at the State House in February 2003 after the space shuttle Columbia crashed. |
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