After all, when your party has all the power, there’s no reason to clutter the process with comments from ordinary citizens, or to give boards that safeguard the people’s interests any authority to question your decisions.
In the hope of kick-starting a little bit of Tuesday morning discussion, we'll draw our readers' attention to this strong and sensible editorial, which just popped up on the Salt Lake Tribune website this morning, criticising Utah County GOP Wacko Utah Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, who is "sponsoring a (2012) bill to shrink and dilute the authority of five citizen boards in Utah." "The boards’ mission is to watch out for the environmental health of Utahns, which may sometimes be at odds with the bottom-line health of polluting industries," says the SLTrib Editorial board:The Tribune goes on of course, to decry "the negative impacts of Utah single-party rule."
While we take it as a given that Senator Dayton's chief loyalties may indeed lie with her special interest corporate campaign donors, there is one aspect of Sen. Dayton's pending bill which we can't quite fathom.Senator Dayton (and her bought and paid for GOP cohorts) breathe the same air and drink the same water as all the other lumpencitizens who reside in Utah, no?
Well then again... maybe not. They all reside in the rarified air of the Utah legislature, we guess.
That's it for now.
Take it away, O Gentle Ones, cough, cough, cough...
