'Extreme' supporters
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney dropped into Utah in February to raise some cash and herald the endorsement of a majority of the state Legislature.
All but 10 or the House Republicans and five of the Senate GOPers said they were backing Romney, the former head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
It's doubtful those lawmakers had read Romney's comments in the July 2002 issue of Commonwealth Magazine in which he bashed the single-party dominance in Utah.
"I just came back from living in a state that was overwhelmingly Republican," Romney told the Massachusetts magazine. "And a single-party system generates problems, in my view. In that state, the more extreme wing of the dominant party begins to have more and more political sway, and that de-energizes the great mainstream of citizens. They get turned off by politics and offended by the politicians and become less engaged in the political process."
Wonder what happens when Romney runs into those legislators during his Utah visit this week? Any bets on whether he'll air those criticisms while he's asking for donations?
-- Thomas Burr
All but 10 or the House Republicans and five of the Senate GOPers said they were backing Romney, the former head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
It's doubtful those lawmakers had read Romney's comments in the July 2002 issue of Commonwealth Magazine in which he bashed the single-party dominance in Utah.
"I just came back from living in a state that was overwhelmingly Republican," Romney told the Massachusetts magazine. "And a single-party system generates problems, in my view. In that state, the more extreme wing of the dominant party begins to have more and more political sway, and that de-energizes the great mainstream of citizens. They get turned off by politics and offended by the politicians and become less engaged in the political process."
Wonder what happens when Romney runs into those legislators during his Utah visit this week? Any bets on whether he'll air those criticisms while he's asking for donations?
-- Thomas Burr
2:02 PM
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2 Comments:
With the Utah Republican Party choosing leaders with surnames of Germanic origin -- Lockhart and Weiler -- I wonder if its members are taking this brownshirting thing too authentically.
I couldn't agree with th governor more. Power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely. When one party is in control nationally or at state lrvel,the people are the losers.
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