My governor is a fuckwit.
Okay, so not everyone agrees on the whole "Redskins" issue. I can respect healthy disagreement. My personal opinion is that using names like that for teams and mascots is degrading to American Indians, and that we wouldn't name a team the Fighting Kikes or the L.A. Wetbacks, so we probably should back off from using team names that degrade any group. But many people disagree with me, and I'm okay with that. Still, to veto a measure banning the name (a very reasonable measure that gives teams until 2006 to change) by calling it "silly," is a bit beyond the pale. Is the gov indicating that it is silly to address issues of cultural sensitivity?
Let's talk about silly for a minute -- this is the man who has used his movie tag lines in stump speeches. This is the guy who sued someone using his likeness on a bobblehead doll. This is the guy who helped flood the Capitol building by having artificial turf laid over the drainage grates in his "smoker's patio" at the Capitol. Silly indeed.
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He also lied about seeing Soviet tanks in Austria during his youth at the Rethug National Convention.
And furthermore...this is the guy who actually likes being called the governator.
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