(Utah) Guv’s handling of ‘The List’ draws fire

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Source: The Salt Lake Tribune


Guv’s handling of ‘The List’ draws fire
By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated Jul 27, 2010 11:35PM

Editors Note • The quotations from the letters to the Governor’s Office are reproduced in the story as they were written. The Tribune has not changed the words for spelling, punctuation or grammar, with the exception of deleting an expletive in one instance.

An anti-immigrant fury was unleashed on Gov. Gary Herbert last week, as scores of people berated the governor for firing two women suspected of compiling a list of hundreds of supposed undocumented immigrants and praised the women as heroes and patriots.

The fiery e-mails condemned Herbert as a coward, questioned his sanity, compared him to excrement and demanded that he pardon the two state workers and honor them with a medal.

“Are you just stupid or just a traitor to the tax paying citizens of this country,” Carl D. Cauch wrote in one e-mail. “This is down right criminal. … Please resign your office as you are like a plague on the good people of this country.”
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“<Y>ou should be tried for treason for not up holding our law of people in this country illegaly,” wrote Stephen Glenn Powers. “our one sorry governor and unAmerican,you should be empeached or step down-now depoart these law breaking illegals now.”

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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50003880-76/list-governor-state-wrote.html.csp

[FreeState]

1. K&R n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Surprise me this does not

[gratuitous]

3. Delightful

I wonder how Mr. Cauch or Mr. Powers would feel if their names had made it onto this little list?