King City Council finally takes action on flag - Crowd’s displeasure breaks out

(By Leslie Bray, The Stokes News) - Before the overflow crowd could speak up at the King City Council meeting on Monday night, the Council made a decision on the Christian flag that shocked the majority of those gathered. They voted to choose option three that had been presented at the public meeting on Oct. 11--to approve a limited public forum approach to the flagpole at the Veterans Memorial in King’s Central Park.

The stunned silence that greeted the final vote on Nov. 1 did not last long. Every person who later spoke during the public comments session disagreed with the decision. Many vowed to make sure the present Council members would not be re-elected. One woman even walked out in the middle of the comments, crying out that she had “heard all she could stomach.”

Before the floor was opened to the public, however, the Council members had a chance to speak. Mayor Jack Warren explained that with the limited public forum approach, “certain specifics. . .would have to be developed later on.”