By Sean Mussenden
Media General News Service
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee waded into the debate over the confederate flag in South Carolina on Thursday, saying the decision to fly it on the state house grounds should be left to voters in the state.
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Huckabee said at an event in Myrtle Beach Thursday morning, according to the Associated Press. “In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell ’em what to do with the pole, that’s what we’d do,” Huckabee said.
The issue has long been a flash point in South Carolina politics, and a sticky one for presidential candidates. The state decided in the late 1990s to remove the flag from the state house dome, but left it flying on the state house grounds.
At a press conference in Columbia Thursday night, Huckabee declined to answer repeated questions from reporters about his personal views on the flag, saying it was purely a state issue.
“It’s really not something that’s an issue for the president of the United States,” he said.
See the video at right for his full answer.
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Huckabee said at an event in Myrtle Beach Thursday morning, according to the Associated Press. “In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell ’em what to do with the pole, that’s what we’d do,” Huckabee said.
The issue has long been a flash point in South Carolina politics, and a sticky one for presidential candidates. The state decided in the late 1990s to remove the flag from the state house dome, but left it flying on the state house grounds.
At a press conference in Columbia Thursday night, Huckabee declined to answer repeated questions from reporters about his personal views on the flag, saying it was purely a state issue.
“It’s really not something that’s an issue for the president of the United States,” he said.
See the video at right for his full answer.