From Deseret News archives:
Shurtleff's fundraising trounces Hill's
Shurtleff's fundraising is impressive and may lead to further speculation that he has an eye on higher office in Utah some day. Shurtleff, a former Salt Lake County commissioner, seeks his third four-year term in Tuesday's election.
Meanwhile, Democrat Jean Welch Hill has raised $100,000 and spent $87,965 in her challenge to Shurtleff. The attorney general's race has at times has been an acrimonious contest, with charges of unethical conduct flying back and forth.
Libertarian Andrew McCullough, who has run for attorney general a number of times, has raised just $15,300 and spent $15,143.
Shurtleff, who is considered part of Utah's GOP establishment, but who has also angered his party's right-wing on several public stands he's taken, has been hampered in his campaigning this year because of a lingering serious leg injury originally suffered in a motorcycle accident more than a year ago.
Shurtleff disagreed with that opinion, and in essence Shurtleff opined that the board had to immediately implement the voucher law. Board members refused. The case was quickly heard by the Utah Supreme Court, where the board's decision was upheld and the two-voucher-law complication cleared for a November 2007 referendum vote by citizens.
Utahns repealed the voucher law by a nearly 2-to-1 vote but the bitter voucher political fight both in the attorney general's office and in the state Legislature has lingered into this year's political campaigns.
The latest attorney general financial reports show:
• As has been the case in attorney general races for a number of years, some law firms get involved financially on one side or the other, or just give to both major party candidates.
Shurtleff, who as attorney general awards outside counsel contracts to law firms, got at least $118,900 over the last four years from local law firms and attorneys.
• He has also gotten $227,500 from various multi-level marketing firms, from NuSkin to USANA, Xango and Pre-Paid Legal Services. Shurtleff has often defended the firm's right to legally operate in the state, and he received from such firms about $1 of every $6 he raised over four years.
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