Georgia Rep. Tommy Benton drew national headlines in 2016 when he said the Ku Klux Klan, “was not such a racist thing, but a vigilante thing to keep law and order.”
The headlines came again this year when he pushed for legislation to honor Georgia’s role in the Civil War, leaving out any mention of slavery. Reps. Alan Powell, Steve Tarvin, and Jesse Petrea co-sponsored the measure.
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