MLK Day Events Include Tea Party?

Gov. Butch Otter and First Lady Lori Otter will present an official state proclamation Monday at the state’s Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day celebration , which will begin Monday at noon on the second floor of the Idaho State Capitol, in the rotunda. The ceremony is sponsored by the Idaho Human Rights Commission, an agency for which Otter is proposing eliminating state funding in next year’s budget. Interestingly, that’s also the date of the “Tea Party Convergence on the Capitol,” at which, according to the Boise Tea Party Web site, “Tea Party groups from all over Idaho are coming to Boise for the opening day of the Idaho Legislature.” (The Legislature actually opened Jan. 11, this past Monday.) That group has an event scheduled for the south Capitol steps at 11 a.m./Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here .

Question: Which is stranger — that Gov. Butch Otter will present an official proclamation at Idaho’s MLKJr. celebration (after proposing to de-fund the Human Rights Commission) or that Tea Partiers will converge on the state Capitol that day?