Carl Wimmer, Beau Babka, Jim Winder – Idiots Seeking Elected Office
A note to Carl Wimmer: “Conservative, Principled, Effective” – my ass! If you had any principles you’d follow the damn rules and keep your signs off of public property. How long have you been in the legislature Carl? Seriously, you can’t be troubled to follow the damn rules? Oh, that’s right, you’re part of Utah’s [...]
Utah: An EnergySolutions Subsidiary.
West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder recently appeared in an advertisement touting EnergySolutions as “Utah’s most misunderstood” corporation and praising them as a vital piece of Utah’s economy. As if it isn’t enough that this corporation basically owns the Utah legislature, now we have an elected city mayor openly pushing their nonsense. Beyond the obvious [...]
Unethical Ethics Petition Tactics
The deadline for the Utahns for Ethical Government petition is April 15, a scant two weeks away. In order for the initiative to reach the voters on Novembers ballots 95,000 signatures are required, along with stipulations that there are sufficient signatures from 26 of Utah’s 29 Senate districts. From outward appearances, it looks like UEG [...]
Utah’s Political Ethics
The end of 2010′s general legislative session brought us another news bombshell: the resignation of Kevin Garn due to a 25-year old episode of naked hot-tubbing with a minor, and a hush-money payoff of $150,000 7 years ago. On the heels of Sheldon Killpack’s recent arrest for driving under the influence after leaving a lobbyist [...]
Utah and Ethics…
In today’s Deseret News Utah’s District 54 Representative Kraig Powell attempted to make his case against the Utahns for Ethical Government Initiative. In this editorial piece, Powell argues that the UEG initiative “sets a high bar for lawmakers to clear.” My question for Mr. Powell and the rest of the legislators that are opposed to [...]
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