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The Latest: Girl Scouts lobby with cookies for bridge name
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on a Georgia lawmaker's push to a name a bridge after the founder of the Girl Scouts, rather than a white segregationist (all times local):3:20 p.m. Thin Mints and Samoas were in abundance inside the Georgia Capitol as Girl Scouts urged lawmakers to replace the name of a white segregationist by naming a Savannah bridge after their organization's founder.The scouts spoke at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, standing beside a huge illustration of the bridge. Hundreds of scouts had signed it in support of Rep. Ron Stephens' proposal to name the bridge in honor of Juliette Gordon Low. The bridge has long been named for former Gov.