Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mentor and friend and wacko

I FORGOT TO MENTION one funny moment during last night’s board meeting. Saddleback College’s "Utt" library is going through renovation. The building is named after a notorious OC Congressman.

Trustee Tom Fuentes therefore found it necessary to announce that “James B. Utt was a mentor and friend in my youth….”

Why, of course he was!

According to Wikipedia, “one of [Utt’s] unachieved goals was to remove the United States from the United Nations.” Further, he “voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1960, 1964, and 1968, and against the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”

Further,
In 1963, [Utt] claimed that "a large contingent of barefooted Africans" might be training in Georgia as part of a United Nations military exercise to take over the United States. [See OC Almanac.] In that same year, he also claimed that black Africans may be training in Cuba to invade the United States.
Other than that, he was a really swell guy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That explains much about the odious Fuentes.

Anonymous said...

It's not complex to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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