Citizens Respond in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two recent letters to the editor in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch dealing with Matt Blunt:

• Flag was flown at request of residents, by state representative Mike McGhee:

  At my request, on behalf of 10,528 of my constituents who signed a petition requesting the return of the Confederate flag, Gov. Matt Blunt allowed the flag to be flown in honor of their ancestors who fought under the flag.

• One term Blunt?:

  Don't you find it telling that when President George W. Bush came to St. Louis on June 2 that he kept his distance from Gov. Matt Blunt? Pam Fichter of Missouri Right to Life rode in the car from the airport with President Bush.

I don't know if it fits in with what Mr. Squire said said yesterday, but we have an argument that Blunt based his decision to fly the Confederate flag for a single day on a petition by residents to support Blunt, coupled with a tale of who's sitting with whom on the other.