Twice in Five Days
Five people, including Salt Lake County resident Doug Kitt, filed an application for petition in the Utah Lietentant Governor's Office late Monday afternoon seeking to overturn the Legislature's passage of HB38, directing Salt Lake County restaurant tax money to the Salt Lake Real soccer stadium project in Sandy.
Despite polls in Salt Lake County showing a majority of residents opposed the plan to use Salt Lake County sales tax money to help build infrastructure for the professional soccer stadium, the Legislature worked out a deal with Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and passed the bill over the objection of County Mayor Peter Corroon and other county officials.
The petitioners have until April 9 to gather 91,996 signatures in order to get the referendum on the ballot. To qualify, they need to get at least 10 percent of voters in 15 of Utah's 29 counties who cast ballot in the last governor's race.
This is the second effort for a referendum to overturn an act passed by the Utah Legislature since the session ended last Wednesday. A petition drive is already underway to get on the ballot a measure to appeal legislation approving vouchers for parents who send their children to private schools.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
Despite polls in Salt Lake County showing a majority of residents opposed the plan to use Salt Lake County sales tax money to help build infrastructure for the professional soccer stadium, the Legislature worked out a deal with Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and passed the bill over the objection of County Mayor Peter Corroon and other county officials.
The petitioners have until April 9 to gather 91,996 signatures in order to get the referendum on the ballot. To qualify, they need to get at least 10 percent of voters in 15 of Utah's 29 counties who cast ballot in the last governor's race.
This is the second effort for a referendum to overturn an act passed by the Utah Legislature since the session ended last Wednesday. A petition drive is already underway to get on the ballot a measure to appeal legislation approving vouchers for parents who send their children to private schools.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
7:27 PM
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2 Comments:
Utah politics sure are funny. Case in point: Mr. Kitt, whose stated opposition to the RSL legislation was that the state shouldn't be in the business of funding private enterprise, works for a biotech firm in the U's Research Park that--wait for it--is partially funded by the state. Now, you can argue the merits of whether a pharma company needs state money more than a soccer team, or whether it will draw more economic development, but to argue unilaterally against state funding of private enterprise while drawing a salary based on that premise demands some sort of harikiri, I think. The least Mr. Kitt can do is resign his post in protest. And while we're at it, how about some of the same from the Tribune editorial board? I know of dozens of well-written, passionate letters to the Trib's editors that never made it to print, while every other ill-conceived (and demonstrably false) letter opposing the stadium seemed to tickle their fancy. What's up with that? Too bad Rolly's on the payroll--this would make a great investigative piece for him.
It seems to me that tyrone slothrop thinks that anyone who thinks like himself is well-written and passionate, but those that do not are, "ill-conceived (and demonstrably false." Now isn't that like saying if you don't agree with the way I think, then you are obviously wrong? What a schmuk!
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