After enduring a couple days of being kicked around over words that many Utahns see as racist, Sen. Chris Buttars has had enough. The moral crusader told the Deseret News that the issue "is done as far as I'm concerned."
That's it. It's over when the senator says it is.
And he's probably right. Gov. Jon Huntsman told the Trib he's sure not going to intervene; Buttars constituents "are the ones who ultimately will decide, based on their level of outrage, if he ought to resign." Senate President John Valentine, who thinks he's post-Huntsman governor material, described Buttars' statement as, well, "a lapse in decorum." Them's fightin' words, John.
If you've been off the planet for a couple days, Buttars followed up on a "baby" metaphor on an education bill by saying: "This baby is black, I'll tell you. This is a dark and ugly thing." Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley sums it up here.
Earlier in the week, he launched legislation to crush Salt Lake City's "repugnant" domestic partnership registry. These aren't the first times Buttars has made insensitive statements about blacks or gays and it's getting hard even for his constituents to ignore.
Buttars seems to only have one problem remaining — local NAACP president Jeanetta Williams doesn't think the issue is done. She told the DNews Buttars has not had the courtesy to return her telephone calls. "It would seem to me he doesn't want to talk about it. He wants it to go away."
But, she says, "he's not just going to ride it out."
4 Comments:
Now that is the face of HATE!
Has anyone besides me noticed the resemblance between Chris Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka? They look like a pair of matched gargoyles.
As hard as I try to come up with an eloquent post, the only thing I can say is what an idiot Buttars is.
If Chris Butters actually represents his constituency then district 10 gives the people of Salt Lake a bad name in general.
Mr. Butters has a long of history of spreading hatred for people he deems are repulsive to him and formulating laws to take away our individual civil liberties.
People like Mr.Butters seem ignorant and uneducated to me. He undoubtedly is a product of his own environment and we know much support there has been in Utah for public education; assuming he was not home schooled ?
The Governor should have a little more back bone and provide us some reassurances that the people of Salt Lake City do not support this type of person representing the ideals of our government.
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