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California mayor who compared Trump backers to KKK dies in plane crash: report
Fox News ^ | 04/18/2020 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 04/18/2020 10:06:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A California mayor who recently said he would resign over social media posts comparing Trump supporters to members of the Ku Klux Klan was killed in a plane crash Saturday, according to a report.

Auburn Mayor Bill Kirby was identified as the person killed when a small plane went down near Auburn Airport just after 11 a.m. local time, FOX 40 Sacramento reported.

The other person on the plane apparently survived but there was no immediate information about that person’s identity or medical condition.

Kirby, who was also a physician, took heat from Auburn residents earlier this week during a city council meeting that was conducted by video because of the coronavirus outbreak. …

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: auburn; billkirby; california; kkk; tds; williamkirby
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To: Olog-hai

Not indicated: Was this doctor licensed to fly a plane?
Many doctors fly planes as a rich man’s hobby.
If he was flying, he may have made certain personal decisions in the aftermath of that controversy. Some people are not used to being seen as ‘the bad guy’.


21 posted on 04/18/2020 10:20:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Was he smote?


23 posted on 04/18/2020 10:23:12 PM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: Olog-hai

There is a God in Heaven.


24 posted on 04/18/2020 10:23:42 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Olog-hai

When it said California mayor I was thinking Garcetti. Dang.


25 posted on 04/18/2020 10:24:37 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Salamander

He gave up smoting for good.


26 posted on 04/18/2020 10:25:18 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

I was thinking the exact same thing!


27 posted on 04/18/2020 10:25:48 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Divine sterilization!


28 posted on 04/18/2020 10:25:56 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Olog-hai

Gotta love Karma sometimes.


29 posted on 04/18/2020 10:26:28 PM PDT by brewcrew1965 (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe he had information about Obama’s birth certificate...or Hillary’s emails.


30 posted on 04/18/2020 10:29:04 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Olog-hai

Shouldn’t he be staying at home like everyone else?


31 posted on 04/18/2020 10:29:59 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: moviefan8

Thread over. No other statement that I can see delineates the “for thee but not for me” attitude of these people when it comes to restriction of movement in response to the “pandemic”.


32 posted on 04/18/2020 10:32:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: willk

RIP even for him. I hope the other person on the plane will be okay.


33 posted on 04/18/2020 10:35:04 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

She’ll get it for a looong time but maybe not here.


34 posted on 04/18/2020 10:38:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Olog-hai
Well now that certainly backfired!


35 posted on 04/18/2020 10:41:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Jeffery Epstein. ......just saying


36 posted on 04/18/2020 10:41:40 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: lee martell

High performance single engine planes, particularly the Bonanza V-tail, are colloquially referred to as “doctor killers”.


37 posted on 04/18/2020 10:41:56 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Olog-hai

Has to be more to this story. Was he being irrational and unhinged when he started talking trash? Could he have been suicidal?
Was he and passenger going to commit suicide together? The timing of his comments...his resignation...and death...sounds like a big f u to Trump supporters...his mayoral cohorts...then a big f u bye bye. Anger and depression?


38 posted on 04/18/2020 10:43:44 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: moviefan8

Was he wearing his mask.


39 posted on 04/18/2020 10:45:37 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Secret Agent Man

very odd....


40 posted on 04/18/2020 10:46:25 PM PDT by cherry
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