Bless the City Weekly. When they’re on, they’re on. This article is a love way from Ted McDonough being completely unable to understand Dean’s 50 State Strategy, no matter how many time you explain it to him.
I think this is yet more proof of the CW’s growth over the last few years.
This week’s issue contains a long breakdown of some of the more egregious violations of tact and good governance in the Utah Legislature. One important point to note, as they put:
The list of nominees was long. Readers may argue with our picks. Just remember, not everyone can be a winner.
Here’s the intro:
When a pair of Utah lawmakers who had long championed nuclear energy turned up this fall working together to build a nuclear power plant, it shocked even Jordan Tanner, who thought he’d seen everything during 10 years as an ethics reformer in Utah’s Legislature.
“The denial of the two that there is a conflict of interest is so contemptuous of the public interest, the degree and magnitude of money involved and the benefits to be derived by those two representatives—during my decade in the House I never saw anything hit that level.”
As a result, he says, the public “is not only interested in ethics reform but almost demanding it.”
The cast of charactors?
Republicans
Rep. Mike Morley, R-Spanish Fork
Rep. Aaron Tilton, R-Springville
Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab
House Speaker Greg Curtis, R-Sandy
Democrats
Well … they talked to Todd Taylor from the USDC about Curtis …
Read it all. READ IT ALL HERE