Rocky's good press
Even the people in charge of making Utah look good to potential new businesses note that the state's backward image is a handicap to their efforts. An article in Thursday's Tribune quoted Jeff Edwards, CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, as saying so quite directly.
Maybe it would help if, instead of jumping all over Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for headlining an anti-war rally last week, business folks around here would trumpet it. You can't buy this kind of press:
In Time magazine:
Utah's Maverick Mayor
His anti-war protest to "welcome" President Bush to Salt Lake City may have shocked some, but Mayor Rocky Anderson always shakes things up in the nation's reddest state
In The Los Angeles Times:
Salt Lake Mayor Joins War Protest
In Salt Lake City, the ruckus surrounding Mayor Rocky Anderson, an iconoclastic Democrat, is seen by many as just "Rocky being Rocky," said Randy Simmons, a political science professor at Utah State University who is married to one of Anderson's cousins.
In The Nation:
The Mayor Who Challenged the President
By Sasha Abramsky
The night before Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson hosted a crowd of several thousand protesters on the grounds of City Hall, Anderson's friend and adviser, the sculptor Steven Goldsmith, told me that the mayor was about to become "a folk hero of the American West."
(Includes a link to the full text of Anderson's speech.)
Via the Associated Press
(As published in The Indianapolis Star):
Mayor rankles veterans at convention
Salt Lake City chief organizes protest at American Legion's annual gathering
SALT LAKE CITY -- The American Legion opened its national convention in Salt Lake City with high hopes that the gathering would help "unite America" behind the war in Iraq.
Instead, the veterans find themselves in a fight with the city's anti-war mayor.
On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
President Bush won over 71 percent of the vote in Utah in 2004, the greatest percentage of any state in the Union. So when his visit there this week was greeted not only by protesters but by the protesting mayor of Utah's biggest city, it definitely raised some questions about his core support.
And on Bob Geiger's blog on The Huffington Post:
SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson: A Righteous Dude in a Wrong State
This from the guy who labeled Utah as Utahistan.
Which is exactly the problem our local Eco-Devo boys are up against.
-- George Pyle
Maybe it would help if, instead of jumping all over Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for headlining an anti-war rally last week, business folks around here would trumpet it. You can't buy this kind of press:
In Time magazine:
Utah's Maverick Mayor
His anti-war protest to "welcome" President Bush to Salt Lake City may have shocked some, but Mayor Rocky Anderson always shakes things up in the nation's reddest state
In The Los Angeles Times:
Salt Lake Mayor Joins War Protest
In Salt Lake City, the ruckus surrounding Mayor Rocky Anderson, an iconoclastic Democrat, is seen by many as just "Rocky being Rocky," said Randy Simmons, a political science professor at Utah State University who is married to one of Anderson's cousins.
In The Nation:
The Mayor Who Challenged the President
By Sasha Abramsky
The night before Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson hosted a crowd of several thousand protesters on the grounds of City Hall, Anderson's friend and adviser, the sculptor Steven Goldsmith, told me that the mayor was about to become "a folk hero of the American West."
(Includes a link to the full text of Anderson's speech.)
Via the Associated Press
(As published in The Indianapolis Star):
Mayor rankles veterans at convention
Salt Lake City chief organizes protest at American Legion's annual gathering
SALT LAKE CITY -- The American Legion opened its national convention in Salt Lake City with high hopes that the gathering would help "unite America" behind the war in Iraq.
Instead, the veterans find themselves in a fight with the city's anti-war mayor.
On MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
President Bush won over 71 percent of the vote in Utah in 2004, the greatest percentage of any state in the Union. So when his visit there this week was greeted not only by protesters but by the protesting mayor of Utah's biggest city, it definitely raised some questions about his core support.
And on Bob Geiger's blog on The Huffington Post:
SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson: A Righteous Dude in a Wrong State
This from the guy who labeled Utah as Utahistan.
Which is exactly the problem our local Eco-Devo boys are up against.
-- George Pyle
9 Comments:
Speaking of the press....
We understand two Tribune reporters have been canned, one, a veteran, for plagerism; one for making some kind of online agreement, selling his/her stories that he/she worked up for the Tribune's feature section. When will The Salt Lake Tribune inform its readers of these terminations?
Blogette's problem is that she can't think of anything to say that is germaine to to
the article so she attacks the newspaper who allows her freedom of speech.
In reply to blogette, above, I can only say that the first matter she referrs to was published promptly in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Here's the link. A search of Google News will bring up a list of other news media outlets that picked it up after it was published by The Tribune.
I can't speak to the other matter.
-- George Pyle
I'm a none-native, non-LDS in the tourism industry. I travel extensively and am constantly jibed about Utah's "odd" national personna. Then want to know what it's like to live here. I wish I could be more flattering but it's like living in the third world country; beautiful but in five years, my family and I still feel like outsiders. I strongly caution people about ever considering a move here.
Another word on dissent. A great man once said" We beginto die on the day we fail to speak out on things that matter". That man was Martin Luther King,Jr. A German theologian,whose name escapes me at the moment,said about The German Reich,"The only thing necessary for Evil to triumph is for Good men to do Nothing".
My copy of Bartlett's says the "The only thing necessary ..." quote is attributed to 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke. But it says there is no written proof that he actually said it.
No doubt it was also said, or remembered, in the 1930s, as good Germans were wondering what the heck happened to their model civilization.
Something Burke did say: "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
- George Pyle
when are the people of utah going to realize that they are right, righteous and real.
You should not care what the hypocrites and haram media scum say or do.
Just google: "mighty wurlitzer" +cia and shut up.
Why won't you do a story on Paul Drockton's long-running discrimination/harrassment/retaliation battle with Farmers Insurance?
Why won't you do a story on Paul Drockton and his discrimination/harrassment battle with Farmers Insurance?
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