Sen. Orrin Hatch Refers To War Protesters As "Nutcakes"

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Mayor Asks Sen. Hatch to Apologize

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=98536

(Gold9472: Someone Bush referred to recently as being a "Good Friend".)

August 25th, 2005 @ 7:49am

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mayor Rocky Anderson says Sen. Orrin Hatch should apologize for calling Monday's Bush protesters "nutcakes."

Hatch said, "If any apology must be given, it should come from Mayor Anderson to the president and Mrs. Bush."

Speaking with KSL-TV Monday about the protest, Hatch said, "You're always going to have nutcakes out there, no matter what you do."

The protest, which primarily was against the Iraq war, was held in Pioneer Park, while President George W. Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention at the Salt Palace.

Anderson, who had encouraged the demonstration and spoke at it, said that "among the people that Orrin Hatch referred to as nutcakes" were the leader of one of Salt Lake City's largest Jewish congregations and several mothers whose sons died in attendance.

He said there were lawyers, architects and several veterans.

"This was a very broad range of great people who came out with heartfelt concern about the direction which our nation has been taking," Anderson said. "I don't think calling people names, especially by a United States senator, has any place in civil dialogue."

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Gold9472]

Political career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch

Senator Hatch worked as an attorney at law in Pittsburgh and Utah. In 1976, he was elected to the United States Senate defeating the incumbent Frank Moss.

In 1980, Hatch spoke in favor of rolling back provisions of the Fair Housing Act. Acting on his motion in 1988, Congress eventually voted to weaken the ability of plaintiffs to prosecute cases of discriminatory treatment in housing. At the time the 1988 Fair Housing Amendments were being debated, he introduced a bill endorsed by the National Association of Realtors to severely limit who can file anti-discrimination suits and to make the proceedings a private affair.

In 2000 he made a failed bid for the Republican Presidential nomination, losing to Texas Governor George W. Bush.

Hatch caused an overnight controversy June 17, 2003 by proposing that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing. In the face of criticism, especially from technology and privacy advocates, Hatch withdrew his suggestion days later. One year later, he proposed a controversial INDUCE Act that attempted to make illegal all tools that may be used for copyright infringement. According to many critics, this act would effectively outlaw the internet and personal computers, giving unprecedented legal leverage to media companies.

Orrin Hatch was one of the architects and advocates of the expansion of H-1b visas and was generally an advocate of looser immigration policy.

A vocal supporter of stem cell research, Hatch was one of 58 senators who signed a letter directed to President George W. Bush, in hopes of relaxing the federal restrictions on stem cell research.

[dz]

eh, im a nut cake.. rather that than a corrupt aristocrat.

[ehnyah]

Hatch scores 100% by the Christian Coalition on family issues

The Christian Coalition was founded in 1989 by Dr. Pat Robertson to give Christians a voice in government.

Recurring guest on the 700club

voted for the Iraq war, then blamed the CIA for "faulty intelligence"

Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes

Rated 20% by the ACLU

a mormon who believes in polygamy(multiple wives)

Mormonism is based on belief in Jesus as the Messiah, in the Israelites as a covenant people; as a form of Restorationism, it professes a restoration to the earth of the original Church instituted by Christ himself and thought to have been lost in a Great Apostasy after the death of Christ.

Mormon Doctrine:

The Bible has been corrupted by errors of translation and transmission, as well as by deliberate action.

Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father appeared in secret to Joseph Smith in the woods.

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Memogate, also being called Cybergate, is "the internal Senate investigation into whether Republican aides unethically (and perhaps illegally) tapped into Democratic computer files containing private judicial-nomination strategy memos and leaked them to the press."

25 November 2003: "Orrin G. Hatch's Staff Stole Democratic Memos," LeftCoaster.

26 November 2004: "Hatch says he's 'shocked' at hacking of files. Sen Orrin Hatch has suspended a staffer" by Christopher Smith, The Salt Lake Tribune.

26 November 2003: "Orrin Hatch puts staffer on leave" by Jim Abrams, AP: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he had put one of his staffers on administrative leave for improperly obtaining data from the secure computer networks of two Democratic senators. ... Hatch, R-Utah, said preliminary interviews suggested that a former Republican member of the committee staff may have also been involved in penetrating the Democratic computers."

"Sen. Orrin Hatch. If this conservative senator isn't safe from conservative attacks, is anyone?" by Michael Crowley, Slate.