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2020-04-19 Home Front: Politix
California mayor who compared Trump backers to KKK dies in plane crash
Keep it civil, even if this Dem POS didn't
[Fox News] A California mayor who recently said he would resign over social media posts comparing Trump supporters to members of the Ku Klux Klan was killed in a plane crash Saturday, according to a report.

Auburn Mayor Bill Kirby was identified as the person killed when a small plane went down near Auburn Airport just after 11 a.m. local time, FOX 40 Sacramento reported.
"I have insider information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clint..."
The other person on the plane apparently survived but there was no immediate information about that person’s identity or medical condition.

Kirby, who was also a physician, took heat from Auburn residents earlier this week during a city council meeting that was conducted by video because of the coronavirus outbreak.

In one of the posts, the mayor allegedly shared a photo of a Ku Klux Klan hood, with the caption, "Good news for Trump supporters is that most of them already have masks," FOX 40 reported. The post was later taken down.

Kirby told residents he blamed President Trump for a lack of proper gear and testing capabilities in his work as a physician.
Unlike the Lightbringer
"This president has put us all at risk," Kirby said.

During the city council meeting, officials and the public heard a string of voicemails that the council had received from residents infuriated by Kirby’s online posts.

"These comments are hateful, degrading, bigoted and more consistent with the mentality of a 15-year-old," one voicemail said, according to FOX 40.

The mayor appeared remorseful at the meeting when he talked about the posts.

"I spent 40 years dedicating my life to serving the community of Auburn as a physician and through my volunteer efforts. Am I perfect? No. We’re all a little flawed," Kirby said.

Kirby said he planned to step down as mayor at the next council meeting on April 27.

The plane crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, California state fire officials told the station.

Auburn is a city of about 13,000 residents located about 33 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-19 09:08|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 He has gravity, if not gravitas...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 09:42||   2020-04-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 His flaws are a bit more widely scattered now...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 09:43||   2020-04-19 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Kirby said he planned to step down as mayor at the next council meeting on April 27.

A man of his word.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 09:47||   2020-04-19 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, if he was an atheist, he's probably being got wise about now...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 09:50||   2020-04-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Huffpost article about how it was an assassination in 5..4...
Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-19 10:02||   2020-04-19 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 NTSB will find a Chinese component failure was involved.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-19 10:14||   2020-04-19 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 A radical approach to term limits. Additional study encouraged.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 10:15||   2020-04-19 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Wasn't getting on a plane a quarantine violation? Shouldn't someone have turned him in to the authorities?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 10:16||   2020-04-19 10:16|| Front Page Top

#9 He was a good man who did a great deal for our community. Even good people say dumb things at times, except for you guys of course.
Posted by AuburnTom 2020-04-19 10:16||   2020-04-19 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Someone calls me a KKK member, they don't get any slack.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 10:18||   2020-04-19 10:18|| Front Page Top

#11 RIP, you Dem POS.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 10:39||   2020-04-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Who knew that KKK were smart enough to pass as aircraft mechanics?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-04-19 10:41||   2020-04-19 10:41|| Front Page Top

#13 He disguised himself as a Muslim with ISIS T-shirt, Clem.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 10:47||   2020-04-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#14 In Cali, that's not a disguise, that's marketing.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 11:03||   2020-04-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#15 The comments are hitting really high on the clever humour meter today.

Must be the all round good reports. 44 Boko haram dead, this guy... dead, Khalifa Haftar playing robocop in Libya.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-19 11:08||   2020-04-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Life goes on. The new anger that "quarantine forever" idiots will be feeling this summer is the wave we are waiting to catch.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 11:10||   2020-04-19 11:10|| Front Page Top

#17 If we didn't have Rantburg we'd go insane, Dron.

In the words of the old Reader's Digest, the essential accoutrement for every doctor's waiting room in the middle of the last century, Laughter is the best medicine.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 11:18||   2020-04-19 11:18|| Front Page Top

#18 I rather enjoy the Social Distancing thing. I'm still waiting for someone to say....

"Come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 11:21||   2020-04-19 11:21|| Front Page Top

#19 No way, Jose
Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-19 11:36||   2020-04-19 11:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Fleetwood Mac, back in the day. Come a little bit closer...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 11:38||   2020-04-19 11:38|| Front Page Top

#21 My Mama always said that if you can't say anything nice (especially about the dead), don't say anything at all.

So I'll shut up, except to say condolences to his family.
Posted by Barbara 2020-04-19 12:00||   2020-04-19 12:00|| Front Page Top

#22 The faulty assumption is that this vile creature was "someone."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 12:12||   2020-04-19 12:12|| Front Page Top

#23 Fox news-"In one of the posts, the mayor allegedly shared a photo of a Ku Klux Klan hood, with the caption, “Good news for Trump supporters is that most of them already have masks". Sounds like a mean TDS dude.
Posted by jack salami 2020-04-19 12:52||   2020-04-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#24 Many's the idiot dragged to the gallows shouting "I didn't mean it!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 13:00||   2020-04-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#25 Now he has season tickets next to Kobe.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-19 13:14||   2020-04-19 13:14|| Front Page Top

#26 
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-19 13:16||   2020-04-19 13:16|| Front Page Top

#27 
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-19 13:17||   2020-04-19 13:17|| Front Page Top

#28 I think I'll have a nice glass of squill right now...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 13:55||   2020-04-19 13:55|| Front Page Top

#29 Last thing that went through Kobe's mind? The pilot's teeth...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 13:57||   2020-04-19 13:57|| Front Page Top

#30 "If you can't say anything nice, come over and sit by me" - Alice Roosevelt.
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-04-19 14:17||   2020-04-19 14:17|| Front Page Top

#31 Sounds like the kind of lame wad joke that Stephen Colbert would tell.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-19 14:34||   2020-04-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#32 Keep it civil, even if this Dem POS didn't

The problem is that assholes like Mayor Red Smear operate on the assumption that deplorables will always be civil in the face of their provocations, which in turn leads them to escalate.

It may be time to carefully re-examine the Boy Scout mindset and ask ourselves if we aren't actually making things worse with it.
Posted by charger 2020-04-19 15:46||   2020-04-19 15:46|| Front Page Top

#33 "The evil that men do lives after them..."
Posted by Lex 2020-04-19 16:26||   2020-04-19 16:26|| Front Page Top

#34 We should forgive our enemies. Right after they are taken out back and shot.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 16:31||   2020-04-19 16:31|| Front Page Top

#35 Too bad, so sad, pass the biscuits.
Posted by Crusader 2020-04-19 17:00||   2020-04-19 17:00|| Front Page Top

#36 I'm sorry that humans died. Oh and him too.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-04-19 17:29||   2020-04-19 17:29|| Front Page Top

#37 Still gonna giggle about this
Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-19 20:46||   2020-04-19 20:46|| Front Page Top

#38 @ #33 - Now you got me thinking of that scoundrel John McCain.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 21:00||   2020-04-19 21:00|| Front Page Top

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