A Tender Moment
When the Utah House of Representatives went into a floor session this afternoon, Speaker Greg Curtis made a gesture that caught many of the members by surprise, and left a few choked up.
With so much contentiousness between the political parties these days, this gesture will be remembered.
Curtis, a Republican from Sandy, suddenly relinquished his chair to Rep. Carl Duckworth of Magna, one of just 20 Democrats in the 75 member House.
Duckworth, in the 2006 election, survived a vicious campaign in which about two dozen fliers accusing him of everything from being a socialist to not caring about disabled children were sent to homes in his district in the weeks just before the election. Those fliers came from the Utah Republican Party.
But this time he was treated far differently by a Republican.
Curtis had him run the House as Speaker pro tem for about a half hour. Duckworth is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has been looking frail during the session this year. But he gamely has come to work and represented his district. The Republican speaker made sure today that everyone appreciated that.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
With so much contentiousness between the political parties these days, this gesture will be remembered.
Curtis, a Republican from Sandy, suddenly relinquished his chair to Rep. Carl Duckworth of Magna, one of just 20 Democrats in the 75 member House.
Duckworth, in the 2006 election, survived a vicious campaign in which about two dozen fliers accusing him of everything from being a socialist to not caring about disabled children were sent to homes in his district in the weeks just before the election. Those fliers came from the Utah Republican Party.
But this time he was treated far differently by a Republican.
Curtis had him run the House as Speaker pro tem for about a half hour. Duckworth is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has been looking frail during the session this year. But he gamely has come to work and represented his district. The Republican speaker made sure today that everyone appreciated that.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
5:08 PM
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1 Comments:
They made the poor man wait until he had pancreatic cancer to give him a place of importance?
That Utah Republican Party suffers from such a "Country Club" mentality. At least they made the gesture-however untimely.
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