Republican incumbents will claim it's a vengeful and dirty election trick, but a KSL News report alleging bribery among House members is rocking their world.

John Daley reports that a group of lawmakers presented House Speaker Greg Curtis with a packet of information alleging unethical behavior among certain legislators. Included is a signed letter from former Rep. Susan Lawrence saying she was offered $50,000 in campaign money if she changed her vote on the controversial school voucher bill being pushed by conservative Republicans. Lawrence says she twice turned the offer down.

The bill narrowly passed last year, only to be tossed out in a referendum vote. Now, public education supporters appear to be taking the revenge they promised.

Lawrence says the bag man was Draper Rep. Greg Hughes. But Hughes, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, says the money offer was unrelated to her vote:

There is nothing illegal or unethical that ever took place. There was never a quid pro quo.

Sorry Greg, but anyone with an IQ the size of their hatband knows that in politics on the Hill, there is always a quid pro quo.

KSL offers an amusing footnote to the story: Reportedly, Hughes — who, by the way, manages small-time boxers — got into a shouting match with Curtis' chief of staff Chris Bleak in the legislators' parking garage. The confrontation turned ugly enough that state troopers were called in to break it up.