Now, re-elect the bums...
The Salt Lake Tribune editorial page eviscerates the Utah Legislature today — accusing lawmakers of power grabbing, bullying and pandering to special interests. Did I leave out hate mongering? It hits that too.If anyone in Utah still believes that there's nothing rotten in the state of Utah's legislative branch, then they haven't been paying attention for a long, long time. Perhaps they'd rather hold to the belief that their lawmakers are as ethical and honorable as they keep claiming they are. Well, many of them aren't, folks, and we take no pleasure in saying so.It does a citizen's heart good to see a newspaper breath fire and righteous indignation — something all too rare in Utah. Read it to your children.
What finally set the Trib editorial writers off was the revelation that Senate President John Valentine had covered up an ethical breach by Sen. Chris Buttars (unrelated to his habitual hate mongering) until it finally seeped out, like flatulence, in news reports.
Basically, Buttars, hoping to help a pal, used his Senate position to try to influence a judge. But Judge Derek Pullan turned out to have that combination of ethics and intelligence that confounds political hacks.
I have a quibble with the editorial — and all so-called "house" editorials. It bugs me that newspaper opinions are not signed by somebody. If you're curious, here's the opinionated passle of op-ed writers led by Vern Anderson.
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