Cliven Bundy: Racist extraordinaire?

 

From the New York Times:

 

But if the federal government has moved on, Mr. Bundy — a father of 14 and a registered Republican — has not.

He said he would continue holding a daily news conference; on Saturday, it drew one reporter and one photographer, so Mr. Bundy used the time to officiate at what was in effect a town meeting with supporters, discussing, in a long, loping discourse, the prevalence of abortion, the abuses of welfare and his views on race.

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

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A combative Candland carps at colleagues

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It has taken three days to get through Tuesday’s BOCS meeting.  I cannot tell you how many times I fell asleep listening to the droning on and on.  Little did I know that the fireworks would be at the end.  It wasn’t a pretty sight.

Gainesville Supervisor Candland needs to be assigned detention.  During that time he needs to watch some play by play video of Manassas City Council meetings.  Manassas City, once you get through the seemingly endless parade of anti-abortion activists speaking into the mic about something the City has no control over, is a model of how good government should work.  Mayor Hal Parrish is the quintessential southern gentleman  and most of the council pretty much follow his lead.  The meetings are  the genteel south at its best.

Mr. Candland was combative, snide and rude to those around him, in particular, Supervisors Nohe and Principi and Chairman Stewart.  He was particularly aggressive to Corey Stewart, challenging his budget presentation in derisive ways at every turn.  He accused Stewart of sticking it to tax payers this year and backing down in an election year.  It made no sense since Stewart had clearly explained the 5 year plan in terms of revenues, rather than expenses.

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