H. Rose Schneider reports in The Altamont Enterprise that several Republican candidates in Berne don't mind a Confederate flag flying in a yard alongside their campaign signs. The home of Paula and Kevin Dunnells in the southern Albany County town have been flying the traitorous flag since before the election, they say, because their teenage son wanted to "honor history." Some factions of the Confederate States Army flew the flag, which is often perceived as a racist symbol. Now the flag is next to campaign signs for incumbent Berne Highway Superintendent Randy Bashwinger, and for Richard Otto and Mary Alice Molgard, who are running for town justice. “As far as where my signs go has nothing to do with a flag … ” said Bashwinger, who is not sure who put his campaign sign there. “I’m kind of curious of how it has anything to do with the confederate flag.” Molgard says she knows about the flag flying next to her sign and said, “But the flag is just not simply the Confederate flag,” noting the words “heritage not hate” are printed on it. Otto said, “If somebody wants to put up a Nazi flag, I’ve got no control of it.... What somebody puts on the front of their house really has nothing to do with me.” Read the full story in The Altamont Enterprise.