Tonight on KSL's Nightside Project (102.7 FM) State Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, explained that he made a mistake when he 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."
When Sen. Buttars was asked to better explain his comment by Nightside host Michael Castner he stated that he was wrong to make the comment without fully explaining himself, and that he recognized that it was a statement that should have been explained when stated, or should not have been said at all. Sen. Buttars also explained that Brown v. Board of Education "was the bullet that shattered the wall of segregation", and that he recognized that his statement may have caused some grief and apologized for doing so.
All I can say is I understand, and accept Sen. Buttars explanation. Who hasn't had the similar experience of saying one thing and meaning another? I know I have.
Once again the staff at Nightside has done a solid job of reporting the facts and has hopefully shut the door on this issue, just as they did when Salt Lake County Republican Chair James Evans slandered SL County District Attorney candidate, Sim Gill.
Good job Nightside, and keep up the good work.
8 comments:
You're going to let him off the hook that easy!?
Sorry -
KCPW beat "Nightside" to the story by at least 9 hours.
Thanks for coming to the party - albeit a bit late.
#1 Anon: Yes, Buttars seemed sincere.
#2 Anon: Being decent and doing what is right doesn't have a time limit, does it? My first opportunity to hear Buttars's explanation was on KSL's Nightside, and I reacted how I felt was appropriate soon there after.
Let's put it this way, would Republican leadership do the same for me in this situation? I hope so, but your response is so typical of conservative nit picking, and in fact sounds exactly like something a certain Davis County conservative blogger would say.
I also agree with Charley Foster who wrote, "I accept the Senator's explanation (especially that the statement was terribly worded). The trouble is, for the forseeable future any debate in which the Senator is a participant will degenerate into, "Buttars is a racist."
Thanks for reading The Utah Amicus.
Hi Rob,
OK I've done a little more digging and I'm comfortable saying this about Senator Buttars:
No question Senator Buttars misspoke; even he admits that. I would also hate to be taken out of context...such a thing would keep me awake at night.
The bigger issue is that this seems to be a pattern with him. He makes a statement, takes heat for it, then says he is being misquoted or taken out of context, and then offers up what he really meant.
The question is, why does he make such statements in the first place? I'll speculate on an answer...Senator Buttars clearly has a strong inner sense of what he feels is right or good and what he feels is wrong or evil. Although this is an admirable characteristic, it can also be dangerous when it is not coupled with a sense of empathy for others' viewpoints.
I don't always see such empathy from him.
I imagine we're going to see more of this behavior from Senator Buttars in the future. To me, morality without respect is just another form of fanaticism. Given this, I believe such statements, even after clarifications are supplied, are counterproductive to a rational discussion of responsible public policy.
Way to go KCPW!!!
Craig,
I agree.
Good job KCPW! But I still heard it first on NIGHTSIDE.
Never give a douchebag any slack. That idiot from West Jordan is a blight on Utah and Utah politics. Never have I heard a man say so many assine things or introduce more stupid bills than this Neo-Nazi want to be. He wants to control your life and make you live according to his warped ideas of justice and morality. Run the bum out of the state and all of the idiots who keep voting for him. Hitler seemed sincere when he told the British he had no designs on Europe. Don't fall for his bullshit his true colors, or is it against the colored, have been flown more than once.
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