Huntsman joins the brawl
Gov. Jon Huntsman, who has been itching to take on ethics reform since he came to office, is going to take advantage of the disgustingness on Capitol Hill (here's the latest) to launch a comprehensive reform package that would address lawmaker ethics, campaign funding and even candidate selection.The House Ethics Committee has been wading through ethics slime with charges and countercharges, including that lawmakers were offered bribes to change their votes. Huntsman says the hunger for cleaning up government ethics is coming from the bottom up:
Huntsman also wants to reform the Rorschach-like gerrymandering every time Utah redraws political districts. But for that to happen, we are going to have to see Jon the diplomat replaced by a street fighter who is willing to shank the state's most powerful GOP leaders.We're going to see ethics legislation because people are demanding it. They expect it and they deserve it.
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Tribune's Bob Barr Blackout Watch: The Libertarian Party nominated Bob Barr as its presidential candidate on May 25, 2008, and 139 days later -- with less than one month before Election Day -- The Salt Lake Tribune finally informed its print edition readers of his candidacy.
See "McCain or Obama: Utahns want next leader to heal economy," October 11, 2008.
By comparison, the Tribune notified its readers of the candidacies of Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on an almost daily basis in 2008.
The Tribune first reported on:
*Ralph Nader's 2008 presidential candidacy as early as March 1, 2008.
*The presidential candidacy of the Constitution Party's Chuck Baldwin on July 3, 2008.
*The presidential candidacy of the Green Party's Cynthia McKinney on September 4, 2008.
In the interim, the Tribune's web site administrators disabled the accounts of individuals who noted the omission of Barr's candidacy from the Tribune's national political coverage in the TribTalk forums or comments sections of SLTRIB.COM.
Barr will be on at least 45 state ballots across the United States.
Nationwide polls show Barr receiving support from between 1 to 2 percent of voters (or about 1 in 50 American voters), and up to 11 percent support in some battleground states.
Only a handful of other presidential candidates can claim the same thing.
The CEO of MediaNews (which owns the Tribune), William Dean Singleton, was a significant financial supporter of Republican U.S. President George W. Bush.
www.BobBarr2008.com
To help educate Huntsman and others about gerrymander-proof electoral systems, check out this three-and-a-half minute video produced by FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy.
http://www.fairvote.org/?page=2451
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