... and Bingo was his name-O! Salt Lake Tribune writer Paul Rolley hit the nail right on the head today with the following article, describing the political temperature in Utah these days. I sense a revolution ahead...
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_8822743?source=email
"The Utah Republican Party seems to be in a battle for its political soul. Fifteen Republican incumbents in the state House of Representatives are facing stiff challenges from within their own party. Of the nine Republican incumbents who are up for re-election in the State Senate, five are being challenged by fellow Republicans. For the first time in memory, all 75 House seats are contested, while in the Senate, only President John Valentine, R-Provo, escaped with no challenger at all. '
"The obvious impetus behind the assault on the Republican establishment - from within and outside the GOP - is the voucher fight of 2007, when GOP legislative leaders crammed tuition tax credits for private schools down the throats of a reluctant public, then vigorously fought the successful populist movement to repeal that legislation. '
"But it goes deeper than that. The voucher debacle was a symptom of a greater problem: a Legislature in the grip of an ultraconservative clique that is intolerant of moderate points of view, especially within its own party, and excludes anyone who doesn't play along."
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I love that you put political stuff on your blog. I've never lived in Utah, but it seems that there would be a lot of potential confusion/boundary blurring between religion, politics, and mormon culture. (And some who think all three are one in the same.)
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