Thursday, March 20, 2014

Standard-Examiner Editorial: Our View: Swallow Must Be Prosecuted

It's time to stop dithering. Let's get this show on the road!
It will be a Byzantine effort to prosecute Swallow and some of his minions. But it must be done. A prosecution would also serve to move Utah toward greater campaign finance reform. Our  legislators' failure to set simple campaign limits is an embarrassment. The Swallow saga shows what can happen -- what can be enabled -- in a state that has little respect for campaign finance reform or lobbying reform.
Standard-Examiner editorial
Our View: Swallow must be prosecuted
March 19, 2014
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William Ewart Gladstone
29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898

Top-notch editorial in this morning's Standard-Examiner, expressing what all conscientious Utah political wonks are nervously thinking:
Memo to Davis and Salt Lake County prosecutors Troy Rawlings and Sim Gill:

It's time to stop dithering.  Let's get this show on the road!

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