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It’s back to the drawing board for a committee charged with presenting a list of veterans to Governor Rick Scott and the state cabinet to pick a nominee for the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. The nominating committee’s first list included Scott and a group of Florida Confederate soldiers.

The NAACP is outraged because some of the confederates were known racists and one was even jailed for aggression against black Floridians. NAACP Spokesman Dale Landry calls the list of nominees insulting.

“We have one of them that was locked up in Tallahassee for what he did to people in Quincy. African Americans slaves in Quincy so to that extent I got a problem,” said Landry.

Scott didn’t know he or the confederates were on the list of nominees. The nominees were going to be voted on by the state cabinet when it reconvenes next Tuesday. The vote has been postponed until a new list can be created.