Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Seems there was a really lively meeting at the Hilton Hotel at lunch time the other day while the Rotarians were having their meeting. What should have been a meeting to hear what the former governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez had to say about the past/present and future and a somewhat tasty lunch turned out to be a front row seat at what made the evening's breaking news! Only the death of the most wanted Al Qaeda(sp) topped the confrontation between the former gov and one of the US deputy AGs, Fred Black.

I'm not going to take sides. I suppose that if I were the gov and asked the questions that I feel were out of place at that forum, I'd have taken the 'high road' and not given the man what he wanted, which was exactly what he wanted. He wanted to push the gov's button and got just that.

I don't think that one invites a speaker to speak at one's club then insults him with questions such as the ones asked the former governor. If it were somewhere else other than the Rotary club where the questioner wasn't a member of the club, then perhaps one could say that it wasn't an insult to the quest speaker. But to invite a speaker to address the club then insult him.....that's a whole other story!

Either way.....there sure was some fireworks at that luncheon and Carl didn't appear to be the loser by the sound of the applause he got from the audience.