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Statue of former California Governor and Mayor of San Diego Pete Wilson will be on display on Horton Square, outside the NBC 7/39 Building on Broadway Circle, San Diego.

Can you believe this?

Protests over former San Diego Mayor, California United States Senator and Governor Pete Wilson’s privately funded statue?

The Nonsense:

During a recent San Diego City Council meeting, Enrique Morones, with the group Border Angels, said the statue promotes “hate.”

He chastised Wilson’s championing of Proposition 187, an initiative passed by voters in 1994 that would have denied services to illegal immigrants. The courts later ruled the initiative unconstitutional.
“Would the city of San Diego allow a Confederate flag in front of the Malcolm X Library?” Morones asked the council last month. “Would the city of San Diego allow a statue of Adolph Hitler in front of a Jewish temple? Then why would a Pete Wilson statue be in the heart of a city that is one-third Latino?”

Gay rights activists accuse Wilson of ignoring their community when he was mayor from 1971 to 1983 and during his tenure as governor.

Flap has known Pete Wilson since the early 1980′s having hosted a fund-raiser for the then Mayor in my home in Thousand Oaks. Pete is one of the nicest politicians Flap has had the opportunity to meet.

But, calling him a racist or anti-Gay is just Bull.

The dedication of the statue outside the NBC building at Horton Square, San Diego will be at 4 PM today.

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