And the Winner Is
The election isn't for another 20 months, but you can expect that after the general election in 2008, the first Utah State Treasurer not named Ed Alter in 28 years will be a man named Richard Ellis.
Ellis, who has an impressive background, is already being pushed among Republican movers and shakers by Alter, who has said he will not run for re-election after he finishes his seventh four-year term next year.
So if Ellis is being paraded around as the chosen heir-apparent by the Republican incumbent - this is Utah, remember - he should be a shoo-in.
Ellis is Alter's chief deputy in the Treasurer's Office. But he has gone full circle. He was previously Alter's chief deputy until Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. tapped him to be the director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget. He held that job for a while, until Huntsman named him director of Administrative Services. Then he left that job to return as chief deputy in the Treasurer's Office.
Alter is Utah's longest serving statewide-elected officer. He was first elected in 1980 and has been re-elected ever since.
Ellis is known to have a good reputation among the bond rating agencies and other national and international financial services organizations that are crucial to the state's investment program.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
Ellis, who has an impressive background, is already being pushed among Republican movers and shakers by Alter, who has said he will not run for re-election after he finishes his seventh four-year term next year.
So if Ellis is being paraded around as the chosen heir-apparent by the Republican incumbent - this is Utah, remember - he should be a shoo-in.
Ellis is Alter's chief deputy in the Treasurer's Office. But he has gone full circle. He was previously Alter's chief deputy until Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. tapped him to be the director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget. He held that job for a while, until Huntsman named him director of Administrative Services. Then he left that job to return as chief deputy in the Treasurer's Office.
Alter is Utah's longest serving statewide-elected officer. He was first elected in 1980 and has been re-elected ever since.
Ellis is known to have a good reputation among the bond rating agencies and other national and international financial services organizations that are crucial to the state's investment program.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
5:18 PM
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2 Comments:
Paul, you need to double check your facts. Richard Ellis was appointed Executive Director of GOPB by Governor Leavitt.
I'm starting to think that this blog could serve a great purpose.
Think of it: Paul could float his less-carefully researched articles here -- for instance, those he writes about me. People who actually know the real facts could then correct as many of his errors in the Comments as possible. Then, a week or two later, Paul could file the finished, final, CORRECTED version of his article with the editors of the Tribune who could then feed it directly into the print/web version of Paul's gossip column.
Sadly though, I'm afraid the Trib's editors would never go for the idea.
After all, the whole charm of a Paul Rolly article is exactly its predictable (but yet unpredictable) deviations away from truth and accuracy and into that fanciful, imaginary world that exists somewhere between Paul's sinuses and his overactive pineal gland (which, I'm told, is the source of our bodies' strongest hallucination-producing neurochemicals).
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