Here is a news story to make your jaw drop.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- The mayor of Mount Vernon has made it official. Mayor Bud Norris says he will give the key to his city to conservative talk show host Glenn Beck on September 26.
Norris says Beck will deliver a short talk that night and become the first person to receive a key to the city in the six years Norris has been mayor.
It seems that Mayor Norris and Beck go way back and "every comment" that Beck has made is not being approved of. Mayor Norris, what about approving "any comment" that Glenn Beck makes? Glenn Beck is stirring up hate and fear on a nightly basis. What are you thinking to elevate this ranting racist to position of honored citizen deserving of civic pride? Giving Beck civic recognition is an endorsement of all the racism and fear mongering that Beck stands for.
Norris told KOMO News the key does not represent city approval of every comment that Beck may make, but recognizes a local boy who made it big.
Norris says he knew Beck when the talk show host was just 12 years old. He said he remembers the tyke carrying a sandwich board saying "Vote for Norris for county commissioner" up and down Mount Vernon's First Street.
He said he and Beck's parents were friends, but said this is not a political payback for campaigning decades ago. He said this is merely a recognition of someone who is from Mount Vernon.
I'll be there on the September 26th with my poster, "Change The Locks!".
I'm thinking the Skagit County Young Democrats will have lots of company.
Mayor Norris has gone out of his way to put his sleepy little town in the path of an national uproar. If 57 sponsors have canceled Beck, I wonder what will happen to Mayor Norris?
Protesters from the Skagit County Young Democrats walked outside city hall Tuesday with protest signs, one reading "Change the locks!"
They called it "totally inappropriate" to give a man who labeled President Barack Obama a "racist" a key to the city.
Colbert and Stewart should be back in time to make mince meat of this made for Comedy Central event.
_Contact Information_____________________________________________
Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce
Mount Vernon
910 Cleveland Avenue
P.O. Box 809
Mount Vernon WA, 98273
Phone
(360) 336-6211
Fax
(360) 336-0623
Email
mvmayor@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us