Buttars: Exhibit A.Provo's Daily Herald and Ogden's Standard-Examiner seem diametrically opposed on the condition of Utah government integrity.
The Daily Herald, which could never be mistaken for a journalistic watchdog, thinks things are just hunky dory on the Hill. In an editorial titled: "Beware the Ethics Charade," it opines:The Utah Legislature must resist being stampeded into phony "ethics reform."
The Provo paper figures if things are so bad, the voters would have thrown the bums out — which they didn't. (OK, maybe one, House Speaker Greg Curtis.) Apparently, the slime and idiocy at the Legislature is just a hoax perpetrated by those mischievous Democrats.
This fall, a panel dismissed eight complaints against Rep. Greg Hughes. All in all, the whole thing looked like an October surprise cooked up for political advantage.
And that's what the ongoing "ethics" drive seems to be.
But way up north in Ogden, the Standard-Examiner quotes a national study of good government and comes to a very different conclusion: "Our government is ailing, and it needs a large dose of integrity":
Utah does have some positives to grow on. . .
However, the negatives remain. You can read about them in your daily newspaper. Just look at the ethical misdeeds and squabbles in our state Legislature. Something's definitely wrong when Republican State Sen. Chris Buttars is considered a contender to chair the Rules Committee. That's ridiculous.
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We should be wary of phony ethics reform. We usually see more talk than action. Of course we also see more hysteria from the media than reality as well.
Ethics "reform" is like campaign finance "reform" or redistricting "reform".
The "reform" drive is rarely about good government but about electoral outcomes.
Mr. Hughes misdeeds are just the tip of the iceberg. Utahns say they want reform,and LDS voters pretend they are a inclusive society, and yet they continue to vote in the same people who are part of the bullying and problem.
Bramble should have been dismissed by voters but being Republican is more important than being a decent LDS Democrat. Democrats are second class citizens in Utah, Davis, Weber, Cache, and Southern Utah, and I find it sad and disheartening that so many LDS voters look at the R instead of the person as our leaders have advised.
Although I like Mitt Romney I was pleased that he was passed over. Utah Latter-day Saints are some of the most closed minded people in the nation and I would say the following at church on Sunday,"you reap what you sow, and until you start truly believing that members of other parties can be good people too, and good leaders, we will continue to have a legislature that needs to be knocked in the head before it understands that they represent us, and we are all God's children.
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