THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
(apologies to Keith Olbermann)
AL State Sen. Dr. Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield)
Newly-minted State Senator Dr. Larry Stutts (R-Sheffield) a OB/GYN wants to keep the government out of the exam room, especially when it comes to the field of women’s health; an area in which he would seem to be qualified…. In proposing SB289, Stutts failed to inform his fellow Republican Senators of his intimate knowledge of the bill he hopes to over turn. SB289 would eliminate the key components of “Rose’s Law” which was passed in 1999, after Rose Church died under Stutts’ care. Church, a 36-year-old registered nurse from Haleyville gave birth to a healthy, baby girl on December 1, 1998. After 36 hours, she was released from the hospital, only to return 36 hours later due to sessile bleeding. She was given four pints of blood. She was again discharged only to die approximately 36 hours later of a heart attack, according to court and a 1999 report by the Tuscaloosa News. Her autopsy revealed that Church had placental tissue still inside her womb, 11 days after she delivered her daughter Logan Rose. Stutts was her doctor and named in the wrongful death suit filed by her husband, Gene Church.
As a rule, I don’t believe people are inherently evil, though some will endeavor mightily to prove me wrong. Sometimes reasonably decent people will simply do the wrong thing for the wrong reason(s), a proposition that becomes more impactful when that person is a politician, and the potential for doing some real damage eincreases exponentially.
Then there is Alabama State Sen. Larry Stutts (R-Mordor), who’s proven himself to be the exception to my belief. There can be little doubt that Stutts is an evil, misogynistic, compassion-deprived, thoroughly dishonest politician who…I hope you’re sitting down for this…is a Republican.
Wow…who could have seen that coming, eh?
In reading the opinion piece by the Alabama Political Reporter, I’m not even the one describing Dr. Stutts as evil. The heavy lifting had already been done for me.
In the Senate, as in all relationships between equals, trust is the bond of cohesion. Stutts broke that bond when he failed to fully disclose the death of Rose Church and his plan to repeal of her namesake law.
Stutts, by his own actions, has become a pariah….
Not only has Stutts betrayed his fellow senators, he has betrayed the people of his district by rendering them voiceless in the legislatures most powerful body….
Stutts is arrogant and careless and now we know he is evil.
Whatever Stutts’ motives may have been- neither Maddow’s story not the opinion piece by the Alabama Political Reporter make it clear- he’s revealed himself to be the worst sort of political- devoid of compassion, self-interested, and evil.
In selling his bill, Stutts deceived six of his Senate colleagues (all male, not surprisingly) to gain their support. He never disclosed that he was Rose Church’s physician at the time of her death, and none of the six (at least until the truth came out) had no reason not to trust Stutts. Now no one has any reason to believe Stutts possesses even the barest shred of integrity.
This sort of dishonesty and manipulation isn’t a red or blue thing, of course…but I do find it interesting that whenever something evil happens or is proposed, more often than not a Republican’s behind it.
No, I don’t believe that to be a coincidence. It seems there really are a class of people in politics dedicated to the proposition that the world by rights is the property of wealth Conservative White males, and that women (in particular, though they’re hardly the only marginalized class) aren’t deserving of equality.
Sometimes evil doesn’t arrive on a black horse. Sometimes, it appears wearing a smile and a tailored suit…and it manages to turn itself into a pariah.
Nice work, Senator.
