Mayor of Babylon
The Tribune's Derek Jensen does a check on Mayor Ralph Becker's regime so far and finds a new mayor and a new style are not making any better headway at the state Legislature than the city's despised Rocky.
Becker has run into the wrath of lawmakers with the city's domestic-partnership registry that is seen by lawmakers like Sen. Chris Buttars and the Eagle Forum as part of a "homosexual agenda."
Other lawmakers are plotting to reach down from the Hill and overturn a new Salt Lake City green law that protects stream banks from development.
Finally, Ralph has been sucked into yet another controversial Buttars bill that would
seal police misconduct files from public scrutiny.
"Where Rocky was gruff, Ralph is gregarious - a diplomat, not a dictator.
But with roughly two weeks left at the Legislature, new Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker appears mired in the same mud that buried his predecessor, Rocky Anderson."
Becker has run into the wrath of lawmakers with the city's domestic-partnership registry that is seen by lawmakers like Sen. Chris Buttars and the Eagle Forum as part of a "homosexual agenda."
Other lawmakers are plotting to reach down from the Hill and overturn a new Salt Lake City green law that protects stream banks from development.
Finally, Ralph has been sucked into yet another controversial Buttars bill that would
seal police misconduct files from public scrutiny."The city was supposed to fare better with a kinder, gentler mayor - especially one who spent a decade at the Capitol, finessing both ends of the political aisle."Obviously, in the eyes of Republican legislators, whether its mayor is a maddening maverick, right, or play-by-the-rules Ralph, left, Utah's liberal-Democratic stronghold needs to be sat on — for its own good.
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