I’m going to poach a couple of bits from Walsh’s column, but, I want you to go read the whole thing, cut and paste it into a word document, then save it until November. The Wednesday after election day, I want you to open it, read it, and then punch yourself in the forehead.
Given the chance, legislators repeatedly reminded us who is in charge.
Public comment – by mothers who want to give birth at home and immigrant college students and Minutemen and Salt Lake City’s domestic partners – was stifled by the clock and caprice. At the same time, legislators made it harder for voters to reverse their decisions, lopping months off the time allowed to gather signatures for a referendum.
And, of course …
And West Jordan Republican Sen. Chris Buttars rose from his funeral pyre to slice hospital visitation rights out of revised legislation targeting Salt Lake City’s fledgling domestic partner registry. Stories of couples separated in hospital emergency rooms by hostile families and doctors were “tender,” he said, but irrelevant.
“That’s a simple human kindness that could have been extended – and they chose not to,” says Kim Hackford-Peer, a Salt Lake City mother of two who has drafted medical power of attorney and hospital visitation documents with her partner.
Now, writers and stenographers from both major papers write these types of articles and columns every f**king year, and every f**king election day …
And now they want you to vote for them again.
Most of you do what they want. Silly Utah Sheeple.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Republican legislators understand that their constituents have given them unrestricted power. There is no accountability. Unfortunately, these legislators reflect those who put them in power.
I see it all the time in the suburbs, angry, mean-spirited people who despite living a standard of living that is oppulent by any historical standard, they feel entitled for more and are looking for scapegoats.