Posted on 08/20/2005 6:59:33 PM PDT by Crackingham
Salt Lake City's Mayor Rocky Anderson used e-mail this week to call for "the biggest demonstration this state has ever seen," when President Bush appears before a national veterans convention Monday. Anderson says Bush policies are disastrous for the country and that to stay quiet during the president's visit would be send a message of apathy.
The mayor's e-mail called for a collaboration of health care advocates, seniors, gay and lesbian advocates, anti-Patriot advocates, civil libertarians and anti-war folks to protest outside the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mike Parkin, senior vice commander of the V-F-W's Atomic Post 4355 in Salt Lake says the move makes Anderson look unpatriotic.
The Vietnam vet, who says he voted for Anderson, but won't again, says the protest will offend veterans and embolden enemies of the U.S.
In news related to this thread, the "Bush is a murderer" ad starring that Sheehan person will run tomorrow when the President is in Salt Lake.
CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates in Salt Lake City took the traitor's cash. Just one station, the ABC affiliate, KTVX Channel 4, refused to run in.
KTVX's refusal is in the news--but not the fact that it will run on all the other major local stations.
The article about this can be found at...
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2960205
He's a former ACLU lawyer. That's all that needs to be said. Hopefully the Utah Republican party will get a decent candidate in the next election for mayor of SLC.
Amazing that a mayor of a city would call for a demonstration against the President of the United States. Rocky Anderson is the Al Gore of Utah. The Utah Republican party has always blown it in SLC when the mayoral race is on.
I assume the Mayor was involved in soliciting this convention to his fair city?Even if not, what a gracious host.Organizations considering where to hold a convention-take note.
SLC Mayor's official e-mail. Let the traitor know how you feel.
mayor@slcgov.com
Not in the 04 Pres race....I'm still amazed that SLC elected such a sxum...now I know why Howard Dean has been going there.
See:
Posts 62 and 65 on this thread and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1468004/posts?page=17#13
for a couple of opinions/explanations.
Oh come on - there was only one county in ID that went for sKerry and that was the one where Sun Valley is. He and Mrs. sKerry have their skiing dacha in Sun Valley. Only rich Lieberals live there.
Even Bannock county where I live - and there are WAAAYYY too many Demoncrats here for my tastes (mostly because ISU is in Pocatello) - went 60/40 for Bush.
Educate me as to what happened in Utah. At least OUR demoncrats know to keep their mouths shut compared to that major mayor embarassment in SLC.
Utah went over 70% for Bush in 04...the only state to do so. Yhatrs the only point I was making.
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