The Tribune, always quick with a records request, got a look at the emails that flooded the Herbert's office after state officials quickly tracked down the culprits who gathered hundreds of names of purported illegal immigrants from confidential state records and released them to the media and law enforcement. The two state employees were fired and criminal charges may follow.
From the 325 pages of emails, I offer a Child's Treasury of Bigotry:
“I am from Utah … With a piece of sh-- like you as governor is it a good place to be from? You are a joke … and a useless one at that.” -- Ken Auston*
“[Y]ou should be tried for treason for not up holding our law of people in this country illegaly. [Y]our one sorry governor and unAmerican,you should be empeached or step down-now depoart these law breaking illegals now.” -- Stephen Glenn Powers*
“Are you out of your mind? This is treason! You call yourself an American? The people who made that list are Heros! they should be given a medal!” -- Shane Doyle*
I'm predicting a Heroes Parade down Provo's Center Street -- and it won't be for Herbert and Workforce Services Director Kristen Cox.
(*I hope these are really their names and not Mel Gibson aliases.)