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SALT LAKE CITY -- A new poll shows a majority of Utahns agree with action taken during the 2009 legislative session against controversial state Senator Chris Buttars.
The KSL TV-Deseret News poll indicates 63 percent of Utahns say removing Buttars, R-West Jordan, from key legislative assignments was the right thing to do. Thirty one percent opposed the action.
Buttars came under fire for remarks he made to a documentary filmmaker about homosexuality. He compared gay-rights activists to Muslim terrorists and called them the "greatest threat to America going down."
So far he has declined comment on this poll. But Senate President Michael Waddoups, who took the action against Buttars during the session, tells the Deseret News this poll seems like an attack on Buttars. He says Buttars stands up for his convictions and the controversy during the session is no longer an issue.
Waddoups says this only makes it "nasty again" for someone who doesn't deserve it.
E-mail: mrichards@ksl.com
