We were hog-tied all day yesterday with personal business, thus relegating our blog posting chore temporarily to the back burner. So we'll belatedly direct our readers' attention to a highly Weber County Forum-topical letter appearing on the Standard-Examiner website yesterday. It's brief, so we'll incorporate it in full. We've also taken the editorial liberty of adding a few of our own links:
Ogden municipal elections should be investigatedIdeal fodder for today's reader discussion, we believe, as we head off into another Emerald City weekend.
It is well beyond time that someone properly investigated the shenanigans which went on in the 2007 Ogden City municipal elections.
There were certainly numerous well-documented ethical violations committed by Mayor Godfrey and his favored political allies -- lying about crime statistics, manipulating the electoral challenge system, destroying campaign signs, funneling campaign donations through a fictitious organization, intimidating and smearing the reputation of political opponents, selling real estate through backdoor deals.
Whether or not there were actual criminal violations is not for me to decide. That is for our legal system to decide. It is time for the judiciary to step up to the plate and do their job. It doesn't matter what they find or don't find. There is plenty of smoke. The taxpayers and citizens of Ogden deserve to know if there's a fire.
Jim Hutchins
Ogden
