'It smells a little bad'
The next time the docs x-ray Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's bum leg, maybe they should get a shot of his head. Considering the questionable ethical decisions he makes, you've got to wonder if his motorcycle spill didn't scrambled something up there.In the latest mess, Shurtleff appears to have written an over-the-top endorsement of a technology company in exchange for a $10,000 campaign contribution. What lawyers like to call quid pro quo.
Whoa! Before you run off thinking the wrong thing, Mark explains in his adorable big-lug way, it's just a coincidence:
It's not, 'Hey, give me a contribution and I'll write you a letter.' It doesn't happen that way.Here are some of Mark's other amazing coincidences:
- His office awarded a contract for legal help to the law firm Siegfried & Jensen, which not only has given Shurtleff close to $60,000, but hired his daughter.
- Shurtleff is a big supporter of the payday lending industry, which has forked over tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns.
Not that I really think he's up to anything …. It just looks a little bad, it smells a little bad, and he doesn't seem to notice. It makes you wonder what kind of Pollyanna he really is.
4 Comments:
If I were to cite Andrew McCullough as a source for an academic paper, I would be failed.
The Trib cites McCullough, winner of 3.71% of votes statewide, and we are supposed to care?
Shurtleff is on too many pain killers to legally operate a motor vehicle let alone hold office and decide who's appeal of a death penalty should be denied.
The fact is Utahns don't care where Shurtleff get's his money from. Unfortunately the Democrats had a big loser running this year, but my guess is nobody else wanted to try knowing that Utahns say they care about ethics, but then return people like Shurtleff, Buttars, Hughes and Bramble to office.
What is really sad is I even voted for morally challenged Shurtleff because I could see that McCullough was going nowhere with Super Dell at the top of the ticket, and Hill couldn't lead a horse to water.
We should ask ourselves this, why would a qualified opponent run against Shurtleff only to lose to an ethically challenged guy whose smells worse than his decomposing leg?
I think there are worse things to worry about now then who's pocket Shurtleff has a hand in.
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