Buttaphobia goes national!
Our homegrown sweetheart Sen. Chris Buttars is outraging folks nationwide, reminding high-tech executives and developers that Utah is a sweet place to relocate.
The Daily Kos has an extensive entry:
Sen. Chris Buttars is quite a legislator. He's offered bills to make illegal Salt Lake City's new domestic partner registry; to keep police disciplinary records secret; and worked to limit legislation to provide funds for STD education.
But now he's topped it. On the floor of the Senate, he rose to say "The baby is black. It's a dark, ugly thing."
dKos calls for two actions:
First — Emailing Buttars, Senate President Valentine and Majority Leader Curt Bramble.
"Be polite, but let them know that the whole world is now capable of watching the racist rantings of one locally powerful but ultimately pitiful state senator from Utah. ... Let them know that racism is unacceptable in the modern-day United States, and that the Utah Republican party should try joining the modern-day United States."Second — run Buttars out of office.
Let's identify some possible candidates in the 10th Senate District. ...There are undoubtedly Utah National Guardsman who live in that district; perhaps there's one who has done a few tours overseas, and is ready to declare as a Democrat. That's the kind of candidate who may fly in that district.
4 Comments:
First of all, Glen, learn to spell the name correctly; you managed to do that earlier when you cited Markos' call for crossing over in the Michigan Primary.
Second, this is just one person's independent diary. It's basically the equivalent of a blogger profile. And from the looks of his previous posts, he seems to be from Utah. So as much as I would hope that the national media would pick up the story, now is not the case. I think it would take more vigilant local media coverage on the issue, but I bet we won't hear about this past Sunday. Thanks Tribune!
Congrats, Glen. You've obviously arrived in the small world of blogging when smug bloggers like davis d. above start hammering on you for an insignificant error. All this splitting hairs among bloggers makes me crazy. What about the bigger picture, ya big blogging babies?! Geez.
I don't live in Utah, but Buttars' rep for political hoof-in-mouth and institutional homophobia is starting to get noticed.
Yep - up here in the Pacific NW, Buttars (or Butt-Arse, as I call him) is quickly drawing attention to Utah for his racist, sexist, homophobic, and just plain stupid comments. He's even beating our over-the-top, asinine, and unstable Mormon legislator Pam Roach (R) for most vile state legislator.
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