Nonsense. Someone not living up to the standard they place upon themselves is an issue. Calling out that person while not living up to that standard when you decidedly and statedly do not place that standard upon yourself is entirely valid.
Let’s try making this clear. Let’s say that my holy book has two doctrines, and I hold this holy book up as the source of my morality:
All republicans need to be denied the right to vote
All people who win Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournaments need to be burned at the stake
I use that first rule to demand that you lose your voice in the government. Then, later on, this happens, and I completely ignore my own principles and refuse to burn myself at the stake. Do you need to accept these asinine rules in order to point out that I’m a huge fucking hypocrite?
Research time! Checked Wikipedia for thedemographic data on Rowan County.
How many of these fine folks knew how much Ms Davis is getting paid? Might some of them think $80,000 per yr is rather high? Also, she’s* got* to be a Democrat to win an election there.
The county is overwhelmingly white–no surprise if it wasn’t plantation country before the Civil War. And probably no real enticements for non-whites to move in…
Some people thought Kim was overpaid when she was a deputy working for her mom.
*The Rowan County Fiscal Court, the county’s governing body, cut Bailey’s budget in 2011 for the first time in 32 years after residents complained about her daughter’s salary — which was significantly higher than the chief deputies of any other county agency.
Davis earned an annual wage of $51,812 in 2011, along with an additional $11,301 in overtime pay and other compensation.
By comparison, the sheriff’s chief deputy was paid $38,000 and the deputy judge-executive received $36,000 — and neither of those public officials received any overtime pay.*
Eastern Kentucky is hilly, suited only for small farms, not big, flat cotton fields, so yes. That part of Appalachia never had much slavery, and had little sympathy for the Confederate cause.
The first time saw that phrase myself I thought it meant what you intended it to mean, especially since I knew it was in or at least close to Appalachia. Then I read the sentence again and concluded you meant that it wouldn’t surprise you if this were formerly plantation country.
But you did; you questioned the morality of those who questioned Davis’ morality. That means we (I) get to question yours. And you’re failing like a turd in a punch bowl.
There are two other Kentucky county clerks who are saying they would not issue licenses to same sex couples, but no such couples have appeared before them to ask for licenses. The state legislature is contemplating taking the licensing process out of the hands of the county clerks and making it a state responsibility. But at the same time, the state wants to take the licensing fee, which currently is going to the county clerks’ offices.
No, I’m gonna go with “you expressed yourself poorly” there. You referenced the history of the area with an “if” without ever giving us the information we needed to know that your “if” was a negative, not an affirmative. Had your sentence been preceded by a cite or a sentence telling us the area was historically poor and white and not a part of the slave-holding South, your sentence would have been fine, but that’s not what you did.
Now let’s all get back to something we can agree on without reservation: Kim Davis is a fucking malicious douchebag.
And there might be the key to all of this. If you don’t license all eligible people, the repsonsibility and the money goes to the State. If people of the county don’t like losing funds because of an intolerant clerk, they can elect someone else.
