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Friday, May 18, 2007

Deja Vu All Over Again
Republican maverick and former U.S. Senate candidate Mike Ridgway can't seem to stay out of trouble with the law.

Ridgway was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail last March on criminal trespass charges alleging he disrupted a Republican Party executive meeting.

While that case is still pending in Salt Lake City Justice Court with a pre-trial date set for July 27, Ridgway was cited again last Saturday for allegedly trespassing at the Republican State Central Committee meeting at the Salt Lake Community College's Sandy campus.

According to a Sandy police report, Ridgway, who is not a member of the Central Committee, was sitting at the credentials table and wouldn't leave. At first campus security was called, then the Sandy Police. Ridgway eventually was cited for criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, although this time he was not taken to jail.

Ridgway has a injunction against him that restrains him from going near certain Republican party insiders. He has appealed that court order and it is pending before the Utah Supreme Court. He challenged Sen. Orrin Hatch for the Republican Senate nomination last year, but lost at the GOP state convention.

Cheers,
Paul Rolly

5 Comments:

At 7:15 PM, Blogger Mark E. Towner said...

Is anybody really surprised?

Sulejman Talovic?

Any Questions?

 
At 4:06 PM, Blogger Anonymous said...

Mark, is that really necessary?

No, this isn't surprising.

How many times will the GOP use your personal situation against Ridgway?

And I cannot believe you would goat Ridgway like this.

The GOP might want to check the rules of the RNC at RNC.org just so they might know exactly what rules they are breaking.

 
At 5:54 PM, Blogger Mark E. Towner said...

Interesting.....

This site does not allow anonymous comments, hummmmm

The only person who can turn this option off and then back on is Paul Rolly.

How many times, until he leaves the state or joins the democratic party and then you guys can deal with him.

Cheers.....

 
At 1:35 PM, Blogger Dave said...

Was Sulejman Talovic the Trolley Square shooter?

Wow Mark, is there no comment that would be below your standards? How is it that you need a restraining order to protect yourself from Mike, rather than the other way around?

 
At 12:09 AM, Blogger Mark E. Towner said...

It's Interesting that Rob of Utah Amicus, and also Vice Chair of the Utah Democratic Party would post using anonymous to hide behind.

The same can be said of "Dave" whoever that is, looks like he created a google account, posted his garbage, then deleted his account.

My response to both Rob and Dave is the same as Sen Thompson to his "Mike" antagonist.

Click on the video link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoAB6fz8ENc&mode=related&search=

Mark

 

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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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