There's no rule saying we can't have more than one Conservative Fool Of The Day! Especially today, which so far has been like a big 'Price Is Right' loser horn for conservatism. ("Voopvoopavoop...")
Curt Bramble, a Republican, is the right-wing Majority Leader in the Utah Senate.
Last week, Bramble made a fool of himself when a pizza driver delivered pizzas to his mansion. Bramble tried paying with a check, but when the driver told him the restaurant didn't accept personal checks, Bramble proved himself to be a complete dick.
Odds are, Bramble has piles and piles of cash. He is not poor. He could have easily paid for the pizzas with cash. But instead he demanded that the driver take the pizzas back to the restaurant and waste them.
Apparently the eatery does accept credit cards. I'm sure Curt Bramble has at least one of those. But he was reluctant to pay with a credit card and practically accused the driver right to her face of trying to defraud him.
The pizza driver posted about the experience on her blog and mentioned how Bramble tried abusing his position as a state senator to get his check accepted and how he left a meager tip. This incident was the only time ever that anyone told that particular driver to take pizzas back to the restaurant.
Bramble's wife had been given the option of paying with cash or a credit card when she placed the order. Nothing about checks. So Bramble must have a mighty short memory if he didn't know he couldn't pay with a check.
Maybe more businesses would still accept checks if not for Congress's check-bouncing scandal. Though it was a bipartisan scandal, Republicans (Bramble's party) were (per member) more prone to abusing the House Bank.
In a separate incident, Bramble reportedly once ate at a steakhouse where he demanded free dessert just because he's a senator.
The blog exposing Curt Bramble's pizza tirade became a sensation - and Bramble the would-be pizza waster is a humiliated disgrace.
(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/25/82327/3536/167/574440;
http://cartoonbrickwall.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-run-in-with-majority-leader-in-utah.html)
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Curt Bramble!
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Who the hell uses checks anymore anyways? The only thing those are used for is paying bills or when your grandmother wants to send you money in a birthday card via the mail.
ReplyDeleteThat's just plain silly.
Utah......... Is that even considered a state anymore or is it just a haven for backwards assholes to go to pretend the wacky way they live is normal?
ReplyDeletedon't deliver pizzas in Utah, in fact, don't even go there at all. A bunch-o-whack jobs live there knocking up their multiple wives and daughters.