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Confederate Plates Bill Going No Where (FL)

There are more than 100 specialty license plates in Florida, and now they want another. However, this one may be controversial.

Representative Don Brown of DuFuniak Springs proposed a bill that creates a license plate displaying the Confederate Heritage Flag.

The bill has no co-sponsors and is considered “dead” because no committees have taken the bill up for debate.

Representative Brown admitted he thought it would stir controversy.

“It is not about racism, it’s not about slavery, it is about an acknowledgement that many of these people’s families have documented that they had friends and family or family who lost their lives fighting for a cause they believed in,” said Brown.
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