Friday, March 14, 2008

A Military Presence?

One of the highest ranking Army Reserve officers in the Intermountain West and a former director of the State Economic Development Office is running for a Salt Lake County Council seat as Democrats are hoping for a one-seat shift that would give them a majority on the council.

Peter Cooke filed late Thursday afternoon to run for the seat currently held by Republican Mark Crockett. Currently, Republicans have a 5-4 advantage on the council.

Cooke was economic development director under former Gov. Scott Matheson. He ran for Congress in 1978, losing in a photo finish to then-University of Utah law professor Ed Firmage in the Democratic primary.

He is a major general in the Army Reserves and commander of the Reserve Regional Command, which oversees operations in six western states.

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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