Pendergrass needs to apologize to all of Lee County …….. Resign today!!!!!
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.”
Records show that Lee County Commissioner Cecil Pendergrass received campaign donations from the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2017 and 2018.
Is Lee County Commissioner Cecil Pendergrass a member of a Neo-Confederate or member of a hate group? Why would he take money from a known group? Why didn’t he just return the donation?
Alongside these SCV members, however, are others who have overlapping membership in more explicitly racist or violent groups, or who have been involved in political violence in and around Ft Myers.
In the 72-page report was done as a result of an audit by the Freeh Group. Which was performed on the Ft Myers Police department in May 2016, two appendices were initially kept from the public and are now released with heavy redactions.
It’s a wonder that the SCV or any of the named Neo-Confederate groups are in the report. Was Pendergrass named in the report, as he was on the Ft Myers Police Department in a former life?
Why didn’t he just return the campaign donation? Please resign today!!!!
Editor’s note:
Commissioner Cecil Pendergrass tried to personally attack the Lehigh Acres Gazette Editor on Facebook, but Pendergrass will not talk about the money he took from the Sons of Confederate Veterans why?
We have banned Commissioner Cecil Pendergrass from the Lehigh Acres Gazette Facebook page, until he apologies to our editor.
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