Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Those Little Devils

Gabling, as you know, is taboo in Utah.
Zilch.
Nada.
No Way.
It's bad, says the Utah State Legislature, over and over and over.

So we have laws forbidding any form of that sinful practice.

And that's why stories floating from those close to the State Senate are so fun to hear.

It turns out a little Super Bowl pool, involving real money, made its way to the hallowed halls of the Senate, with some of our saviors placing their hard-earned cash in a pot, with the closest guess to the final score taking home the gold.

Rumor has it the security guys at the Senate were the ones who started the pool, being a bad influence on some of our innocent senators, who, it is said, participated in the cabal.

I'm not sure which senators took the bait and tossed in some money, but Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, seemed to have a larger than normal smile on his face Monday after the winnings were distributed.

Cheers,
Paul Rolly

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Paul Rolly grew up in Salt Lake City, graduating from Skyline High School and earning a B.S. in political science at the University of Utah. He began working at The Salt Lake Tribune in 1973 as a copy boy. He worked his way up the ladder, covering police, local government, community affairs and business. He left The Tribune in 1982 to work for United Press International where he was the Utah political reporter and later Salt Lake City bureau chief. He returned to the Tribune in 1985, covering the Utah Legislature and later, taking over as business editor. He began the Rolly&Wells column in 2001 with JoAnn Wells and continues the column alone since her retirement. He also writes a political column that runs in The Tribune's Sunday opinion section. He is married to Dawn House, a reporter at The Tribune.

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