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Governor "Flagged" On Sea Isle Friday

 

     SEA ISLAND- Memorial Day weekend got off to a fitting start here Friday as a couple of dozen men, women, and children paid homage to their patriotic forefathers who defended their land and their way of life on the field of battle.

    And they managed in the process to tell the governor of Georgia what they think of him.

    Gov. Sonny Perdue, here to speak at a luncheon meeting to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, was "flagged" as his car entered the Sea Island Causeway by a group on both sides of the road waving more than 20 Georgia flags.

     "We got him coming in. He tried to sneak past us," said Sam Lyons of Brunswick, commander of Brantley County's John Knox Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

    Lyons said the governor's presence here was so clandestine that even local law enforcement didn't know he was in town.

     "He came in a black LTD with a uniformed state trooper driving. That's how we spotted him," he said.

     "We were right at the gateway of the Sea Island Causeway," Lyons said. "Anybody leaving or coming onto the island had to pass us.....he did too. The only way he could have avoided us would be to parachute onto the island. And he is going to get so tired of us, I imagine he's thinking about that. He might take up skydiving."

     Lyons and Georgia citizens by the tens of thousands are miffed that Perdue got elected by promising a referendum that would allow voters their choice of Georgia state flags, then reneged on the vow.

     Lyons, whose home town is Jesup, insisited there will be no forgetting for Perdue. He said the governor is to be in Jesup next week for a ground breaking at Altamaha Technical College and another chamber of commerce dinner speech.

     "We are going to get him again," said Lyons. "I'm hoping really that we'll have even more flaggers there for that one."

     The SCV and League of the South was well-represented at Friday's flagging, Lyons said. Members of the Knox Camp and Waycrossians from the Clement Evans Camp were part of the group.

     "It was clear that he (Perdue) didn't advertise the fact that he was coming," said Lyons. "The local law enforcement didn't know about it. They were very supportive of us. They explained where we could stand and be within the limits of the law, and they were like, "what? The governor's in town?"

     "It was really a great response that we got the whole time from the crowd."

     The flaggers were on site for an hour.

     "People were blowing horns, giving us thumbs up, yelling support...some even stopped on the causeway. Even a black lady in a car drove by and said, " I like those Georgia flags!"

     Perdue is to appear at the tech school in Jesup Thursday at 6 p.m.

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