Cannon Blasts
Politicians aren't dumb. They know to play to their audience.
Such was the case Friday with Congressman Chris Cannon.
Making his annual pilgrimage to Utah's Capitol Hill during the legislative session, Cannon knew what lawmakers would want to hear.
In the House of Representatives, the congressman trashed the U.S. Senate for pushing unfunded mandates onto the states.
"It is almost impossible to get a bill through the Senate that is not harmful to the states," he said.
In the state Senate, Cannon took his schtick one step further,
half-jokingly endorsing Sen. Howard Stephenson's bill taking aim at the popular election of U.S. senators. Cannon said American politics is saddled with a "fundamental constitutional dysfunction."
Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, are you listening?
-- Rebecca Walsh and Matt Canham
Such was the case Friday with Congressman Chris Cannon.
Making his annual pilgrimage to Utah's Capitol Hill during the legislative session, Cannon knew what lawmakers would want to hear.
In the House of Representatives, the congressman trashed the U.S. Senate for pushing unfunded mandates onto the states.
"It is almost impossible to get a bill through the Senate that is not harmful to the states," he said.
In the state Senate, Cannon took his schtick one step further,
half-jokingly endorsing Sen. Howard Stephenson's bill taking aim at the popular election of U.S. senators. Cannon said American politics is saddled with a "fundamental constitutional dysfunction."
Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, are you listening?
-- Rebecca Walsh and Matt Canham
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