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TurnCoats Home || About the Georgia Flag - A Brief History || Flagging Reports || HB899 || Save Stone Mountain from Atlanta's Taliban! Flagging Report Tuesday September 13, 2005 - Sonny Perdue Flagged at Chamber of Commerce meeting in Macon Steve Scroggins report Five Georgia citizens joined up, greeted the public with a display of '56 flags and SONNY
LIED signs, and smiles/waves. Me, Russ Huffman, Jim Wood, Norman Black and Steve Monk all met at the Waffle House for
breakfast, then moved to be in position at the target site by 7am just as it was getting light. I love the smell of
wet grass and car exhaust in the morning...it smells like....a flagging!
The wet grass was from the irrigation system, the air was clear and dry without a hint of haze. The red white
and blue '56 flags were indescribably beautiful. The Macon Chamber dubbed this event "Good Morning Macon"...but it was
decidedly a better morning for the flaggers. All the Chamber people are all five dollars poorer for going to hear the
Liar speak and we don't imagine that Perdue was happy to see us...but clearly a majority of Macon citizens were...so I guess
the name fits, just not the way the Chamber intended.
As always, the reception by citizens (black, white and other)
passing by was predominantly favorable. OK, we had six flaggers if you count the trainee, Russ' lab puppy "Son". Though
enthusiastic at first, he grew tired and laid down (Russ standing on his leash)---so Son didn't hold a flag. We he
gets older maybe he can hold a sign on each side over his back.
Traffic was steady and continuous from 7am to 9am though moving at a slow 25-30mph, thanks mostly to the sheriff's deputy
posted by the entrance for our protection. The traffic was slow enough we could make good eye contact with the passersby as
we waved, smiled and showed the the flags and SONNY LIED signs.
Perdue arrived by helicopter---landing at some secret landing pad behind the meeting
facility----and was ferried in the back way by car, so we didn't get to look him in the eye going in but I'm sure he saw
our flags flying in as the fowlicopter circled over before going in.
Right after 9am, two more Bibb Sheriff's cars showed up and one started directing traffic
when the Chamber folks started piling out of the parking lot (some of the pix show the crowd waiting at the entrance bottleneck.
This gave them all more time to see our flags and see the nice reception passing motorists were giving us. This traffic
cop directing traffic slowed traffic to a standstill and it was great. Though not large in number, our sign & flag
display was beautiful....quite a spectacle to the weary travelers going to work. A number of neighborhood residents walked by
and spoke very pleasantly with us. A few on the street came out to see the commotion and our flags. See the pix.
PERDUE left by car, we saw him in the dark green SUV, he drove right past us, but the
photo of Perdue's car doesn't show him through the dark glass.
It was unanimous that it was a good flagging.
I interviewed with Don Schanche of the Macon Telegraph (he covered us at flagging's
before) and also with a young lady from AM940, the local talk radio station. The morning guy (Hoover) from
13WMAZ- TV paused on the way in to get some footage of us on the sidewalk but he didn't speak to us. 41 NBC-TV was
there, but we didn't see them get any footage of us.
The leaders of the Methodist Home came out to greet us after Perdue and most of the cars left
the parking lot. I knew one from a civic club (I didn't know he was an SCV member) and Russ knew them from toy runs his motocycle group does for the kids
there at the youth home. We told them we meant no harm to the Methodist Home or its mission but that we would flag
this lying governor wherever he went (except perhaps tornado tours and funerals). In the end, we sold them some raffle
tickets to our SCV Salutes American Veterans event this coming Saturday.
Thanks to Steve and Norman for making the long trip to join us so early. 100 would have been
better, but five made a good showing for a weekday morning.
--Steve Scroggins Click the thumbnail images below to see full size photos.
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