Will the real Chris Buttars please stand up?
Posted By JM Bell on August 22, 2006
This is yet another perfect example of why Republicans on the hill are going the wrong direction. Racism, bigotry and religious and ethnic discrimination seem to be no small part of being considered a leader in Utah’s Republican Legislators. This from an AP article on in the Deseret Morning News:
Sen. Buttars Says Ruling Against School Segregation Was Wrong
August 22nd, 2006 @ 7:01am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State Sen. Chris Buttars says the landmark 1955 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared public school segregation unconstitutional, was “wrong to begin with.”
…Buttars was responding to questions from reporter Tom Grover on Logan radio station KVNU-AM.
Mr Thurmond – er … Buttars continued:
When Grover mentioned that “courts are the way for those in the minority … to ensure (their) rights are protected,” Buttars responded with the following:
“I don’t understand that at all. You give me an example. I don’t know of any example where the minority is being jeopardized by legislative action.”
When Grover mentioned the 1955 Brown v. Board of Education ruling as an example, Buttars said: “Well, I think Brown v. Board of Education is wrong to begin with. That’s a whole other subject. Call me again and take a half-hour to talk about that.”
Seriously. Let’s see how they try to spin this one. It sounds like a job for Sen. Hatch’s “I have no recollection” dept.
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