Posted on 03/26/2022 5:16:42 PM PDT by cotton1706
Some weeks ago, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced that he would veto a bill making its way through the legislature that would bar males from competing against females in womens’ sports. The bill itself is hardly a controversial idea in Republican (and independent) circles, and Utah is one of the reddest states in the nation.
Cox is your consummate establishmentarian politician, though, so it was no surprise when he responded (per Fox News) by claiming it was the “right” thing to make sure girls could get dominated by boys in sports. After all, this is the same guy who called for bipartisanship during the 2020 election and also recently expressed his opposition to a school choice bill because he wanted to keep taxpayer money coming into public schools to pay teachers more.
In a statement regarding his veto of H.B. 11, titled Student Eligibility in Interscholastic Activities, Cox said that while “politically, it would be much easier and better for me to simply sign the bill,” he vetoed it because he “tried to do what I feel is the right thing regardless of the consequences.”
Here’s the thing about this kind of mindless virtue signaling. Doing what’s right requires actually being right. You get no brownie points for standing athwart those trying to do something objectively just, and protecting girls is objectively just. But Cox would rather preen for The Washington Post than dare stand up on an issue that might bring a little heat.
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Well, at least we know what circles he runs in.
I suspect Governor Cox would be mystified if you asked him to define what a woman is.
His VETO was over ridden, IIRC.
EVERY Bush League Republican needs to be replaced.
Barely, but yes, it was.
‘EVERY Bush League Republican needs to be replaced.”
They will be, but it is a SLOOOOOW process. In the Executive Committee meeting in Cuyahoga County today, the Executive and Central committees were presented with a slate of politicians that were being endorsed.
They were recommending Governor DeWine receive the committee’s endorsement.
Immediately a move was made to change the endorsement from DeWine to Jim Renacci.
Long story boring, the committee went from advocating the endorsing the RINO DeWine, to ultimately endorsing Renacci, who is viewed to be the more conservative candidate.
Draining the two-party swamp will take another Trump term, followed by two DeSantis terms immediately thereafter.
What puzzles me is what thrill would a man get in sports competition with women? God gave women a different muscle structure than men. It is a fact of nature. Of course what man would think he is a woman? Such a man should be locked away and medicated.
He looks like a squish to me!!!
And that is optimistic. I hope you’re right, but I think it optimistic.
He doesn’t have a choice. He has participated in homosexual behavior more than likely and will be exposed.
We need to come up with a different color for states like Utah. It is not red when when they elect Mittens. West Virginia is another state that is supposed red, but they elect the likes of Machin, who has a (D) next to his name. Quite honestly, Romney and Machin could form a personal pity group for the number of people that hate them from both sides of the aisle. There is no great love for so-called centrists. They are hated from the left and right. They are not so inspiring to the squishy middle either.
It sounds like he sticks his finger in the wind to see which way it blows…
These are the same wimps that were picked on in high school.
We called them pussies.
This is not about "protecting girls".
It's about protecting reality.
No matter how you describe him, it all comes down to his being a closet communist...
He’s less than a RINO...
He’s less than a fellow traveler...
He’s a stinking communist POS...
“ Sounds like he is in the wrong party. Leave it up to the idiots in the GOP to recruit loser trash like Cox. ”
Yep, and I still get texts and emails from the RNC begging for money.
The legislature overrode Cox’ veto. No trannies in UT womens’ sports.
Yup. Here in Illinois, GOP stands for Gang of Pussies.
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