Doug Collins Favors Renaming Confederate Base Names

On June 16, 2020, Doug Collins came to Dublin, Georgia. I was excited he came and went to meet him in person. To me he seemed a great candidate who had done well defending Trump against the Democrats. Collins had given the commencement speech at my son's graduation ceremony at North Georgia University several years ago. Therefore I thought I would enthusiastically support him.

This is not to be.

I was wearing my Sons of Confederate Veterans Pin on my shirt. I have been a member of the organization for almost 30 years. Collins would not have my picture taken with him while wearing my pin. He made me take it off to get a picture! What kind of politician does not accept you as you are and forces you to change?  It gets worse.....

Unbeknownst to Mr. Collins I was carrying my phone in my pocket. I turned my recorder on so I could catch his comments on tape. You can listen to his actual comments on the link below.

https://soundcloud.com/john-c-hall-jr/dcollins

Mr. Collins danced and weaved while we discussed the issue of renaming the Confederate Bases. I was disgusted by his comments and threw my Doug Collins sign in the garbage.

After meeting the Mr. Collins, I decided to go meet Kelly Loeffler in Macon on July 9, 2020

In the picture below you will see that I am wearing my Sons of Confederate Veterans pin. Ms. Loeffler had no issue with me wearing the symbol of the South. It gets even better......

The following message from an email I received on June 18th from Ms. Loeffler's Press Secretary says it all.

"Like President Trump, Kelly does not support renaming our military bases."

Caitlin O'Dea

Press Secretary

Georgians for Kelly Loeffler

(770) 876-1696

 In Conclusion: 

President Trump has stated that the Confederate Flag is a symbol of Southern Pride. He has stated that he will not sign any bill that authorizes removing the Confederate names from our military bases.  I hope all my Southern friends will circulate this so all Georgians know Collins is just a typical Southern Politician that would vote in a heart beat to remove all of the Confederate names, flags, street names, schools etc. from the State of Georgia.  Doug Collins is not fit to be a Senator from my home State of Georgia.

Recent Update:

In an article from the Atlanta Journal July 24, 2020
The subject of renaming the military bases came up with the passage of the Defense bill which includes Elizabeth's Warren's amendment.

Kelly Loeffler in her press release stated the following:

Doug Collin's campaign said the following.....after reading the above you can see that Collin's is a fraud and not trustworthy. None of his ads on the removal of monuments even mention a Confederate Monument!

You can read the AJC article below with the following link.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-doug-collins-kelly-loeffler-split-on-renaming-two-georgia-military-bases/Y4HEMBT2WVF4LHD4UCU22VZQEA/?fbclid=IwAR2rp2B-SgtLrGaqO8xGkJ1LSKsqOJmtPTaNXq8Cn9R5XRxj5OGPCzf5log