A Republican candidate in a newly drawn House district encouraged people to fly the Confederate flag, questioned President Obama’s birthplace as recently as 2019 and called Islam “a plaque.” Stephen Doerr is running against Rep. Gene Pelowski, DLF-Winona, in House District 26A, which is now in the Winona area after redistricting. Pelowski was first elected in 1986 and has often sailed to reelection, but the newly drawn district is solidly purple.
An apology by public officials would be the first step toward acknowledgment of government’s role in the sins of our past and the effects that linger today. And it would be the start of racial healing.
Georgetown Town Council voted to allocate the money, but the museum filed its application after the April 1 deadline. The mayor says the flag should be taken down.