From Deseret News archives:
Political ruin familiar sight
S.L. County has long history of scandals, foul-ups
The county has a long-standing history of scandals and foul-ups resulting in embarrassment and sometimes even political ruin.
Former county commissioner Mary Callaghan, who at one time told the Deseret Morning News that she wanted eventually to run for the U.S. Senate, left county government when the new form of government took effect. Other than a ripple of negative publicity when she accepted two years of payment that she previously said she wouldn't accept, she has not been heard from since.
Former commissioner Brent Overson didn't even make it through the Republican County Convention this year in his bid for a seat on the county council and lost a bid for a seat on Granite's school board in 2003. Former commissioner Jim Bradley, now a councilman, was slaughtered in his 1996 challenge to Gov. Mike Leavitt and has also lost a race for Salt Lake City mayor.
"We need to streamline government there and hold one person responsible and have one person everybody reports to," he said. Such a plan, Wilson said, would limit the numbers of people sneaking through the system.
Councilman Steve Harmsen said that a lot of the recent scandals could, very easily, have gone unnoticed under the old, commission form of government. With seven council members and a separate mayor, there are too many people watching everybody else for the old backroom dealings of county government to go unnoticed for long, he said.
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Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman talks on the phone before a horse ride on which she was made aware of a recommendation she be charged with felonies.
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