Sen. Buttars' bad week
First is was an unflattering photo that seemed to reveal his homophobic soul. Then yesterday's really bad metaphor in a floor speech that made him sound like a Klansman.
Utah's favorite moral crusader, Sen. Chris Buttars is rolling toward a public relations disaster.
Buttars obviously didn't mean his comment as racist — it's just his folksy, lame-brained way of speaking. Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, inadvertently got the ball rolling by calling a controversial education proposal "the ugly baby bill." Then, Buttars, whose mental motor, as usual, wasn't firing on all cylinders, went further:
"This baby is black. It's a dark, ugly thing."Senate President John Valentine says, "I didn't take it as a racist remark, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was inappropriate and a breach of decorum."
Buttars has apologized for the remark and Eagle Forum President/puppet master Gayle Ruzicka still loves him, but the "breach of decorum" and photo have taken the clodhopper senator around a corner.
Buttars has been pilloried for years by gays, Democrats and even fellow Republicans as the senate's village idiot. But this week he snapped into focus as a symbol of something very ugly indeed.
6 Comments:
Sorry, Glen: He didn't apologize for the remark. He apologized only if you were offended by the remark. Anywhere else in this country, he would be dead as a politician. What a sorry state of affairs.
The only surprise to me is that anyone is surprised by Buttar's latest embarrassment. He has already demonstrated that he is, at best, insensitive to anyone who isn't like him, and doesn't believe what he believes. But what he makes clearer everyday is that he views those of his ilk as better than the rest of us. What's more he is just another in a long line of state legislators who have made our state legislature a laughing stock.
He also looks JUST like the Burgermeister Meisterburger! http://www.retrogalaxy.com/imgs/2005/santa_burgermeister.jpg
For the life of me I can't understand why the people in District 10 keep electing this guy. Can the people in South & West Jordan really be happy with Buttars as their Senator?
Wake up people: Help Chris Buttars find a new job -- outside Utah politics!
Brian
This gay Central. SLTribune is now the LIBune.
Where is both sides of the story, is this a newspaper or a grass roots Leftist org?
"This gay Central. SLTribune is now the LIBune.
Where is both sides of the story, is this a newspaper or a grass roots Leftist org?"
Senator Buttars! So nice to see you here!
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