School board trustee should resign over lynching comments

Editor:

Some may have thought that he was just joking when Uinta County School District No. 1 Trustee Dave Bennett made a remark at the Douglas Frank event on May 30 that “get a rope” was an appropriate response to unfounded allegations of voter fraud (Uinta County Herald, “Gasoline on the fire,” April 7, 2023).

According to the Uinta County Herald article in last Friday’s paper and incited by comments about the former NIH Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci by U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, Bennett once again responded from the townhall audience to, “Get a rope for him, too.” The obvious reference to a hanging of Dr. Fauci got laughter from some members of the audience and a call, for God’s sake, to “crucify him,” by another person in attendance.