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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, my god, Don Young ... He's done it again.
Hot on the heels of "Did Don Young really kill a guy," we now have this. Unfuckingbelievable.
http://www.adn.com/article/20141021/young-rattles-wasilla-high-students-hurtful-remark-about-suicide
WASILLA -- At a Wasilla High School assembly Tuesday morning, U.S. Rep. Don Young didnt temper his notoriously abrasive personality for his young audience.
Numerous witnesses say Young, 81, acted in a disrespectful and sometimes offensive manner to some students, used profanity and started talking about bull sex when confronted with a question about same-sex marriage.
We really spend a lot of time at our school talking about how we treat each other, Wasilla Principal Amy Spargo said Tuesday afternoon. We just dont talk to people that way.
More concerning, school officials say, Young made what they called hurtful and insensitive statements about suicide just days after a Wasilla student took his own life.
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It's looking better and better for young Forrest Dunbar, who nobody thought stood a chance in this race.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)What a vulgar man. wash his mouth out with a bar soap.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Show Donald Duck Young just who's boss!
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Young is so arrogant and cocky he has not placed a single ad that I have seen or heard.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Thanks to the tip from @Apinak, heres one more for the list:
In 1995, Young disparaged a 1990 exhibit in Cincinnati that included homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. In front of a group of 15- to 18-year-old high school students, Young said, butt fucking
You think thats art?
Then, too, Young refused to apologize, saying, I dont apologize. Youre all adults, and if you have to ask the questions, Im going to answer.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/03/29/1796041/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-congressman-don-young/
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I asked why is it so bad in your eyes? Grier said.
As Spargo described it, Young answered, You cant have marriage with two men. What do you get with two bulls?
Witnesses say Young then said something about a lot of "bullshazzle" or some word resembling the more familiar obscenity.
At that point I was heading for the microphone," the principal said. "It was time to be done. The hour was up, she said, and the tone of the discussion was getting argumentative.
Spargo talked briefly with Young on his way out. He asked her about the student who shouted at him. The principal said he was a friend of the boy who died. Ill take care of it, she told Young.
I am hopping for the best for you all in Alaska this election day!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wish our media provided FREE air time for each candidate to do so.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Not for the first time; he did this with West Valley (Fairbanks) kids back in oh,,,,,,,,,,, like 1988 or so. Hasn't changed a bit.
And the idiots will re-elect him.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Maybe at last people will send him packing.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I want to puke every time his name comes up on anything.
cali
(114,904 posts)he's a sick, hateful, disgusting old piece of dog shit. and he could do Alaska a favor by... never mind.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Nobody lives forever.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Congressman Young was very serious and forthright when discussing the issue of suicide, in part because of the high number of tragedies that affect Alaskan youth. He discussed what he believes are leading causes of youth suicide in our state and shared some suggestions for helping family members and friends who are dealing with suicidal thoughts, spokesman Matt Shuckerow wrote in an email. In no way did Congressman Young mean to upset anyone with his well-intentioned message. In light of the tragic events affecting the Wasilla High School community, he should have taken a much more sensitive approach.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We might be able to give him a pass if he hadn't been doing and saying stupid things for at least 30 years. And he's accelerating.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Note that this incident took place in Wasilla. We already know there's something in the water up there.