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Whereas in the past, I had to respond to stupid letters to the editor with one of my own and taken my chances it would be published. No longer. This letter appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune today.

Dear Mr. Riordan,

Before you defend your letter suggesting ANYONE refrain from critcizing your president Bush, please view this.

I am quite confused by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson once again intending to grandstand his personal dislike of President Bush’s policies. I, too, find the priorities of our initially Supreme Court-appointed president appalling. However, Mayor Anderson, not private citizen Anderson, represents a majority who generally approve of President Bush’s agenda.

Mayor Anderson appears to be forgetful of his inherent responsibility to represent those who elected him to office. In addition, a subtle display of the mayor’s feeling by making no comment and/or not showing up to greet the president (at the upcoming American Legion convention in Salt Lake City) certainly would carry an appropriate message of a leader’s protest.

After all, the president has not publicly scorned Mayor Anderson for allegations of numerous federal labor and civil rights law violations, giving Salt Lake City a black eye in a few departments. Federal EEOC records show five currently active cases involving one such department.

Let’s reflect upon an appropriate scripture, “First cast out the beam from thy own eye, then thou will see clearly to cast out the speck from thy brother’s eye.” (Matt: 7:5) Please, mayor, cast out the cabals of sickos in your own administration before extending the “Good Housekeeping” seal of shame to our national administration.

Bill Riordan
Salt Lake City

IF anyone out there knows Bill, please invite him to engage.

Firstly, I think its safe to suggest that the people who elected one of the most outspoken liberal (progressive) mayors in the country, Rocky, to a second term, most likely do not “generally approve of President Bush’s agenda.”

And I love the suggestion that Mayor Anderson is as guilty as “The Decider” based simply upon a few federal labor and civil rights law violations allegations against some city departments. Mr. Riordan would be hard pressed to find any major city without such pending allegations. But the use of equivocation in comparing such pending allegations with say actual supreme court rulings, an illegal war replete with admitted violations of “quaint” international law, and the multiple abrogations of domestic statute of the most secretive arrogant administration in history constitutes, mmmm idiocy (Sorry Bill, my manners escape me at this late date in the Bush crime spree).

Oh, and thanks Bill for the scripture lesson. But we can hardly wait for your “beam in thyn eye” inspection to remind you that most Americans and most Salt Lake City residents agree, Bush really, really sucks, and so does anyone whose still dancing around that issue.

Wow, that felt great!

Comments Bill?

PS: To avoid the appearance of grandstanding, I offer you an uncensored top post to respond.

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