A cold dish for Sheryl Allen
The chasm between the Legislature's Republican moderate and conservative wings — spread even wider by an ethics investigation this fall — won't be healing over any time soon.Rep. Sheryl Allen, R-Bountiful, warned House leaders in a letter not to retaliate against GOP moderates like herself who joined Dems to push for the probe into bribery allegations against Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper. You know, or the media might hear about it and make it into something nefarious. Darned media.
Allen says it was just a suggestion to her Republican colleagues: "It's just a letter of honesty."
Newly minted House Speaker Dave Clark apparently uses a different thesarus. He says Allen's letter is a "veiled threat."
I don't know that I need to be "coached." That's the polite word for "threat."Allen is shocked, shocked the Speaker took it that way:
I have no control over how people interpret things. I only know what my intention is.Ha, ha. Allen and fellow moderate Rep. Steve Mascaro are so screwed.
Fun fact to know and tell: The House Ethics Committee's probe into reps. Hughes and Phil Reisen cost you and me $90,000. Both lawmakers were cleared, Hughes with a formal reprimand.
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This letter proves that this "ethics" push is more about politics than it is about real reform. "Ethics" reform is a means for these people, not a goal
Maybe someone should tell Allen not to be instigating October Surprises.
Allen is just playing more of her games, claiming innocent when caught. Sounds like the letter was a threat plain and simple. Allen, as a paid "lobbyist" for the Davis School District, is just upset because she's protecting the tired status quo and the public wants change.
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