Editorial
Cecil Pendergrass the Chairman of the Lee County Commission has a HUGE issue.
The Lehigh Acres Gazette has reviewed every donator to Pendergrass campaign this cycle and last election cycle and Pendergrass has taken money from Felons and Sex Offenders.
Why would Pendergrass do this? What has he promised these Felons and Sex Offenders?
Also in prior years, Pendergrass took donations from the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
According to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the list of the Neo-Confederate groups is Abbeville Institute, Council of Conservative Citizens, Flaggers (Confederate flag erectors), Ku Klux Klan (1st and 3rd incarnations), League of the South, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Southern Party (defunct) and United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Neo-Confederacy also incorporates advocacy of traditional gender roles, is hostile toward democracy, strongly opposes homosexuality, and exhibits an understanding of race that favors segregation and suggests white supremacy.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Neo-Confederate group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has members who are serving military officers, elected officials, public employees, and a particular national security expert with “Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance.”
SCV also owns the childhood home of Nathan Bedford Forrest. In the late Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest — a millionaire Memphis slave trader before the war, an apparent war criminal who presided over the massacre of surrendering black prisoners at Fort Pillow, Tenn., during it, and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan afterward, when the Klan’s terrorist violence paved the way to a Jim Crow South.