Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Mike Lee's "Rand Paul Moment"

Mike Lee appears to have some problems with the federal government manhandling the racist states in the 60s to give up their "right" to abuse blacks. Listen to 4:14-4:45 here:
http://www.mikelee2010.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mikelee_kznu_20100517.mp3
Here is that exchange:
DJ: You know really that tells us that she will be doing a lot of on the job training,
which is not what we want for a supreme court justice.
Lee: Yeah, I think that's right. We've learned through experience that in many instances, if you've got someone that doesn't have a whole lot of a track record, and if they have to be trained on the job, they are not going to turn out the way you want. The name "Earl Warren" comes to mind.
DJ: Yeah, there we go.

Apparently Mr. Lee has a problem with Earl Warren as he brought that up as a damning comment. Warren's big cases were those that prevented states from abusing citizens, particularly in the areas of race and state-imposed religion. Given Utah's troubled recent past with racism (e.g., 1973, MLK day) and the lack of separation of church and state (e.g., tax system designed for income transfer from non-Mormons to Mormons, gerrymandering to disenfranchise non-Mormons, utter lack of ethics on the part of the Mormon Church and Mormon SLC city council members in their "sale" of Main Street), it is easy to see why Mr. Lee is popular there. It is pretty obvious the Tea Party is mainly a white power movement.

4 comments:

  1. To which 'troubled recent past with racism and lack of separation of church and state' are you referring to?

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  2. I'm not a big Mike Lee fan (voted for Tim Bridgewater), but I'm not sure pinning Mike out as a racist is the most compelling way to go about offering up a credible critique of him.

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  3. I just listened to the whole audio file & heard nothing that sounded like a 'Rand Paul moment' or reference to the federal government manhandling the racists states & causing them to give up their right to abuse blacks. Wrong audio file??? Be careful about what accusations you so cavalierly lay @ someone's feet.

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  4. Thanks Swen. I spelled it out more.

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