Utah GOP official says giving women the right to vote was a "grave mistake"

[workinclasszero]

Utah GOP official says giving women the right to vote was a ‘grave mistake’
A Republican Party chairwoman is defending Casey Fisher's comments.
KIRA LERNER JAN 17, 2018, 10:51 AM Think Progress

A GOP precinct chair in Utah wrote on Facebook this week that he thinks giving voting rights to women was a “grave mistake.”

“The more I study history, the more I think giving voting rights to others not head of household has been a grave mistake,” Casey Fisher, a Davis County precinct chair who oversees Republican caucuses in his district, wrote on Sunday.

Fisher deleted both the post and his Facebook account when he began receiving angry messages, according to Davis County GOP chairwoman Teena Horlacher, who defended Fisher in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.

“The sentiment was along the lines of what our Founding Fathers believed in,” she said.

https://thinkprogress.org/utah-gop-official-grave-mistake-854206a69f40/

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Just an offhand comment but why the hell are the...

Founding Fathers always held in such godlike reverence? They had some serious personal flaws as well as expounding patriarchal, racial based bullshit.

[workinclasszero]

6. They also believed in slavery for instance

Not to mention genocide against native Americans and the theft of their lands.

Granted they had very good ideas as well but yeah there are very good reasons for the amendments to the Constitution.

[Guilded Lilly]

8. Oh, yes. Historically our country has much ugliness

to account for as well as the uplifting ideals.

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. Which demographic was Trump's strongest, again?

A white male electorate has some good choices behind it (Hello, Virginia Dynasty), but clearly it has jumped the shark with recent elections and needs to be put out to pasture.

Perhaps it's time that we should start counting white male votes as 3/5 other votes and see if that can't get us better Presidents?

[Initech]

3. Time to vote his ass out of office then!

[Freethinker65]

4. On the up side, he now knows what making a grave mistake really feels like

[dalton99a]

5. Typical Utah Republican

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Well, Sweetheart, I've been a head of a household since before I was able

to vote.

[workinclasszero]

10. That's what I was thinking too

My mother was the head of our household.

My loving Daddy was long gone having his fun while she slaved to raise 5 kids, working in a hospital laundry.

[bluestarone]

9. well then he needs a

sex change operation and THEN she will know why!