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47of74

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Mon Aug 6, 2018, 12:46 PM Aug 2018

Moron put confederate flag on crane for SW Arterial project

Then this happened in Dubuque. A crane operator stuck a confederate flag on a crane that was being used for the SW Arterial project.

Crews from contractor Godbersen-Smith Construction Co. are at the site working on an interchange for the Southwest Arterial, said Hugh Holak, a resident construction engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation.The Iowa DOT is overseeing the project.

Holak said that when a DOT inspector noticed the flag, he talked to the field staff for the contractor, who removed it.

Kim Triggs, vice president and general manager of Godbersen-Smith, said the company does not allow workers to put flags on cranes in general.

He said the incident was the result of a poor choice by a crane operator and not at all reflective of the company.


That idiot probably figured with the orange fornicate in office, his puppet Reynolds in Des Moines, and his bestest white supremacist buddy Steve in Congress that the state would be cool with that. The state still doesn't want to have contractors representing them doing stuff like that. Hopefully he's now a former crane operator.

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Moron put confederate flag on crane for SW Arterial project (Original Post) 47of74 Aug 2018 OP
I agree, I hope his little prank cost him his job rurallib Aug 2018 #1
Yeah it would have cost me mine if I had done that on a client site. 47of74 Aug 2018 #3
"We wuz jest tryin t'onner Ioway's proud Confectionate Histry!" struggle4progress Aug 2018 #2
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