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The Confederate battle flag had flown at the Walton courthouse memorial from 1964 until 2015, when the then-sitting commission voted to abandon it.
Peter Horn III, owner of custom homebuilding company Artisan of Seagrove and a Walton County native, will make his request to remove the flag and monument at Tuesday s commission meeting, set for 4 p.m. in the commission meeting room in DeFuniak Springs.
Horn s presentation will come a little more than six months after commissioners voted 3-2 to keep the flag flying. Six months is the minimum time that certain issues must be put aside before being reintroduced to the commission.
Dec 15, 2020 By Jim Ash Senior Editor Top Stories
Sen. Jeff Brandes
A Southwest Florida lawmaker is renewing his attempt to abolish the Constitution Revision Commission.
Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, filed SJR 204 on December 7, ahead of the 2021 legislative session that convenes in March.
Brandes accused the CRC of following a “Jumanji-type process” when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a similar proposal last year.
“They’re unelected individuals, taking things and putting them in the constitution that were not vetted in a typical process,” Brandes said.
The measure won unanimous support in every Senate committee last year but failed to reach the Senate floor. Similar measures, HJR 301 and HB 303, by Rep. Brad Drake, R-Eucheeanna, cleared the House by comfort