Hey, I’ll admit that I blew my prediction badly<\/a>. Let’s start this Winners & Losers feature off with a Big Board Of Winners!<\/p>\nWinners<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- City Council<\/strong>: Now, they don’t have to go on the record with either their support on either side of the issue. Anybody that didn’t say anything before can pretend this issue never happened.<\/li>\n
- Danville<\/strong>: With this issue closing so quickly, all of the flag supporters and flag opponents have had all of their plans ruined over what would have been the next four weeks of building controversy. Now that the issue is dead, things will quickly return to normal.<\/li>\n
- Clarke Whitfield<\/strong>: With his legal opinion, he got the city out of the hot water. Whitfield (and his staff) make excellent city attorneys.<\/li>\n
- Flag supporters<\/strong>: Even though they won their ultimate goal because the flag will stay, it was a technical win.<\/li>\n
- Real estate agents<\/strong>: The Sutherlin Mansion is now not “not for sale”. If you get what I mean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Losers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History’s Board of Directors<\/strong>: This was a bad idea to start with, it got worse, and now they’ve got to wait until the issue goes away.<\/li>\n
- DRMC’s Eric Deaton & Duke Energy’s Davis Montgomery<\/strong>: They looked horribly uncomfortable sitting in the audience, even though the moved up to the media table. Both of them came to speak and had to get um… “special treatment” by being called on first during the public comment session so they could get out of the way of the flag supporters\/opponents. Side note: I asked them both if they’d like to take a Confederate flag to the podium with them for their speech. I was quite surprised that neither of them took me up on that offer.\u00a0 Heh.<\/li>\n
- Tuesday’s flag support speakers<\/strong>: Tuesday’s speakers that were bad were very bad. The well-dressed polite local pro-flag speakers (both of them?) got steamrolled by the people who JUST DIDN’T WANT OUR FLAG TAKEN DOWN and won’t be back to Danville until this happens again 20 years from now. Even some of the local speakers went horribly off track… and I’ve again got to mention the Worst Speaker Ever, Chatham’s Glen Scearce.<\/li>\n
- Flag opponents<\/strong>: If this issue hadn’t been decided on a technicality, I firmly believe that the flag was going to be gone after the council process. Now, it’s going to be there for good.Until the next time this comes up.<\/li>\n
- Danville United<\/strong>: This could have been an issue for them to prove that Danville is truly United (HA! Like that’s ever going to happen!), but the issue came and went between their every-two-months meeting schedule. The group could have had a chance to weigh in on a current issue, but nope. Is this group heading towards what happened with the “Coalition For A Safe Danville”? Remember that group?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That’s enough for now. I may add some more to this Winners & losers column later on.<\/p>\n
We’ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s a new SouthsideCentral feature category! We’ll use this one when we need to make a list of winners & losers when it comes to things that happen in the region. So being completely unoriginal, we’re calling this new feature “Winners & Losers”. Whatever. Heh.<\/p>\n
Today, Danville’s Confederate flag issue was solved in a way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winners-losers","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11169,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/14\/winners-losers-the-confederate-flag-final-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":10774,"position":0},"title":"Winners & Losers: The Confederate Flag (Final Edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a week since Danville City Council officially killed the Confederate Flag issue. 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