AG needs some PR
Allegations that Attorney General Mark Shurtleff threw state legal business to Seigreid & Jensen in return for campaign donations and a job for Shurtleff's daughter are gaining momentum. Now his challenger Jean Hill is tossing Shurtleff's the embarrassing-at-best apparent conflict of interest at him.The Salt Lake City Weekly reported that since 2000, Siegfried & Jensen pumped $60,000 into Shurtleff's campaign fund. Shurtleff's daughter, Ambra Gardner, worked for the firm for about six months
Once again a Utah politician can't seem to grasp the concept of apparent conflict of interest.
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Are you kidding Glen? A 6 month job worth maybe $15 bucks an hour in return for a potential multi-million dollar contract? Absolutely ridiculous.
Check the timeline, it's completely disjointed. This is Hill and the SL Weekly combining to slam a good man at a conveniently political time of year. Wait, it's Dems, so they get a free pass...
But when Sandstrom announces his new legislation on abortion, of course it's just a political stunt. Double standard, buddy.
And the complaint against Greg Hughes isn't a political stunt either
Does Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff still charge $5,000 to defame critics of campaign contributors using state resources?
http://whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com/2008/08/overstockcom-nasdaq-ostk-ceo-patrick.html
The attorney general and members of his staff are going to great lengths to claim the Hill campaign "planted" this story with City Weekly. That never happened.
Any reporter with an index finger and a little energy can find this kind of story. It's all in campaign disclosure forms. It online, for hell's sake. As to the Ambra Shurtleff Gardner paralegal point, the dates of her employment and the Zyprexa-Vioxx contracts speak for themselves. Siegfried and Jensen partner Mitch Jensen confirmed the hiring date and discussed Gardner's work.
This is how reporters are supposed to do their work. Guess it's up to the voters to decide whether the Shurtleff-S&J connection is enough to bother them.
Holly Mullen
City Weekly editor
Holly-
I don't see a firm hire date in your reporter's story. "Late 2005" is a pretty big window. That's what was fuzzy to me.
Hill had her gay campaign team of Mormon Haters plant this story with Mormon Hating City Weekly.
Hill hates Mormons and hates Shurtleff because she hates men.
Has anyone noticed that she looks like a pissed off Marcia Cross.
Holly is lying.
That's Marcia Clark idiot!
Hill has a gay mormon hating campaign team? First of all, how would someone even know that (I didn't even know she had a "team") and second, how is that relevant if the story is true?
to the first Anonymous:
i think YOU are the angry one:
"gay"
"mormon hating"
"hates men"
Regardless of who you are voting for, I haven't seen indications of any of this from either side. Why do people assume that if someone disagrees with someone else, they must hate them, their religion, and any other personal thing. I think she disagrees with his positions and a lot of his actions. And I'm sure he doesn't agree with her on a lot of things either. Does that make him hate catholics (right? she taught at Judge) and women?
Come on, get off the idiot rhetoric and really discuss issues.
Anonymous (one of many) said
"Holly is lying."
I don't know Holly Mullen but the fact that she makes the comment, lists her real name and affiliation, shows she's willing to stand by her words.
Yet "anonymous" would have us believe that what they write is the truth - while refusing to take full credit for saying it.
If you are going to slam/slander someone at least have the decency to stand up for it by name.
Anonymous - I call B.S.!
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