Civil Rights Commission Ousts VT Chair Over Anti-Bush Comments, Nazi Comparison

[cali]

Ryan J. Reilly | December 7, 2010, 4:08PM


The conservative-controlled U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ousted the chairman of the agency's Vermont State Advisory Committee last week over an October column in which he wrote that the Republican gubernatorial candidate's "Pure Vermont" slogan "raises the specter of Hilter's Aryan Nation and the Khmer Rouge, where the purifying agent was genocide."

The commission voted not to reauthorize the reappointment of Curtiss Reed Jr. as chair of the Vermont SAC, though he had the unanimous support of the rest of the Vermont committee. In an interview with TPM on Tuesday, Reed said his remarks were not intended to imply that former gubernatorial candidate Brian Dubie was a racist.

"'Pure Vermont' had a double entendre there that I felt that the Dubie campaign needed to pay attention to and acknowledge," Reed said. "In no way was I suggesting or stating that Dubie was in any way racist or in any way a bad person, my point was that given the changes of demographics in Vermont, his campaign people chose a poor choice of words to brand him."

Reed had written that Brian Dubie's "Pure Vermont" brand "is another example of cross-cultural blundering." That column was removed from the website of the paper that originally published it and eventually republished by a different site.

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[TlalocW]

1. A conservative-controlled civil rights commission?

What's the point of that?

TlalocW

[cali]

2. no kidding. furthermore, he was right

Dubie's opponent- now the guv elect- is Jewish, so the "pure vermont" crap was creepy.

[rfranklin]

3. To help the oppressed White Christians...

Haven't you heard? They are the new minority.

[rfranklin]

4. dupe...

nt