Salt Lake City Mayor Calls for Big Protest on Monday.

[reprehensor]

Rocky's call to protest Bush makes vets see red

Article Last Updated: 08/20/2005 12:38:45 AM

Mayor's e-mail: 'Nothing radical,' supporters say

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called for "the biggest demonstration this state has ever seen" to protest President Bush's appearance Monday before a national veterans convention.

"This administration has been disastrous to the country," Anderson said Friday. "If people could organize and speak out in an effective manner from the reddest state in the country, that would garner a lot of attention."

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"Patriotism," the mayor said, "demands that people speak out when we see our government officials acting in such anti-democratic and deceitful ways to the people of our country."

He also said: "I don't understand people simply blindly going along with the sort of deceit and utter cruelty of this administration. It's not just we have the right to speak out, but we have the obligation to speak out when we see misconduct on the part of the government. The most patriotic thing we can do is stand up against the misuse of governmental power."


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Damn, Rocky! Now we're talkin'!

[beyurslf]

1. Is he a Dem?

[ellenfl]

2. HAS to be! be nice if he was a rethug, tho'. eom

[MH1]

4. Yes, according to the article.

Anderson, who is scheduled to make welcoming remarks to the conventioneers, says veterans will understand. "The veterans of foreign wars are heroes in my view. To stand up against government misconduct is in no way expressing a lack of support for those who defend our country."
Even though Utah gave Bush his largest margin of victory of any state in the 2000 and 2004 elections, Anderson, a Democrat, wrote in this e-mail: "Don't let him come to Utah and not see huge opposition, even in the reddest state! This would send such an important message."

The thugs seem to be quite up in arms about it.

[blondeatlast]

3. the tide is turning; middle america is waking up from what it thought

was a nightmare.

Now they know it is real.

The shrubbery is terrified that the rational conservatives would turn away from them, now they are.

It's going to get very ugly nest year, folks.

[longship]

5. A mayor with guts!!

The Democratic mayor of Detroit in 1980, Coleman Young, publically called candidate Reagan "Old Pruneface". When Reagan won the election his staff passed a message through channels to Mayor Young that they would appreciate it if the mayor would address Reagan appropriately. Mayor Coleman Young, with microphones and cameras rolling, announced publically that he wouldn't call Reagan 'Old Pruneface' any more. Instead, he'd address him as "President Pruneface".

Sounds like the Salt Lake City mayor has that kind of guts. Bully for him!!

on edit: corrected facts, added clarification.

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

6. President Pruneface!

That kicks ass. We need more Democrats like that; you know, to counter the "go f*ck yourself" Republicans in a cleaner, wittier way.

[yorkiemommie1]

7. Salt Lake City

WOW how did he even get elected?

[pinto]

8. Kudos, Mayor. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. The constipated Orrin Hatch just clamped his sphincter a few more notches

Next to Brit Hume, Hatch has got to be the most constipated man in America. I can just picture his tight-assed outrage over this.