Suggestion to consider removing Va. Confederate statues brings firestorm on council member

I don't guess we should be surprised since she is another braindead Hussein zombie spewing Marxist rhetoric.

"The South does have a proud heritage," Szakos said. "The heritage of those like my parents and others who fought for equal rights in the 1960s and still do today; the heritage of countless enslaved parents who taught their children to believe in themselves in a society that considered them property; the heritage of people who farmed and loved this land before the Europeans came ... I'm proud of our Southern heritage. So proud that it saddened me to see it reduced to two Confederate generals and the myth of the superiority of a proud, noble, slave-holding South, in which only a few held power."

Via Carl

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A Charlottesville, Va., city council member decried what she saw as a "firestorm of vitriol and hatred" that came her way after she publicly floated the idea of tearing down Civil War statues.

In an emotional speech at Monday's council meeting, Kristin Szakos said she expected her comments at a Virginia Festival of the Book event last month to "ruffle some feathers" and start conversations, but she didn't expect the hatred directed toward her in online comments, emails and phone calls to her house.

More @ Winston-Salem Journal

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More vomiting.

During the past two years, I immersed myself for the first time in national politics, serving as the Volunteer Coordinator for the Obama campaign. I helped to build an active volunteer force of more than 7,000 people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and worked hard to make sure everyone had a role and a voice in the campaign. I was elected to represent the Fifth Congressional District as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. I served as Virginia coordinator for the National Day of Service sponsored by the Obama inaugural committee, and am an active volunteer with Organizing for America.

Barack Obama expressed the political sentiments that I had always felt: that we must act more out of hope than of fear; that we can disagree without being disagreeable; that we need new solutions to our problems – while holding to the old values of responsibility and respect; and that government should be open and transparent to all.

Dave Norris is running against her.