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Lots of folks tweeting out this photo of @senatemajldr so I asked his office about it.

A spokesman suggested Leader McConnell wouldn’t pose for such a photo today as he did “30 years or so ago”... 1/4
2/ spox referred me to McConnell saying in 2015: “The Confederate Battle Flag means different things to different people, but the fact that it continues to be a painful reminder of racial oppression to many suggests to me at least that it’s time to move beyond it,...
3/ “... and that the time for a state to fly it has long since passed. There should be no confusion in anyone’s mind that as a people we’re united in our determination to put that part of our history behind us.”

mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.c…
4/ The spox also noted that McConnell has spoken out after Charlottesville, on the Confederate flag flying over SC’s capitol, removing a statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol, and on Rep Steve King. 4/4
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