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Is timing right for Corroon?
When Corroon stepped up to challenge Workman early this year, no one had heard of health department ghost employees working at the Boys and Girls Club or "guzzle-gate" or any of that. Workman was enjoying the benefits of incumbency, including relatively high poll numbers, and several high-profile Democrats Bill Orton, for example opted out of the race.
That left Corroon to take her on, a man whose limited political experience consisted of the chairmanship of the Greater Avenues Community Council and running unsuccessfully for Salt Lake City Council.
"No one else wanted it," Corroon said. "Frankly, I was waiting for somebody to step up. If there had been a stronger candidate (in terms of name ID) I wouldn't have run."
Several political observers agree that if the controversies that have dogged Workman the past several months had happened late last year, another, higher-profile Democrat would have smelled the blood and jumped into the race.
"That's probably right," said Ted Wilson, a former Salt Lake mayor and Democratic political consultant.
"Nobody wanted to take him on until this unknown from Arkansas said he would do it," he said. Then, after Bush's numbers fell off, "a lot of people were wishing they had gotten in."
County Councilman Jim Bradley, a well-known Utah political commodity, had considered entering the mayoral race but opted out because of the time required to campaign. He said an earlier occurrence of the scandals would definitely have influenced his thinking.
"I don't know," he said when asked if he would have entered the race under those circumstances. "Good question."
The controversies, and especially the conclusion of an independent panel Wednesday that Workman's hiring practices constitute felonious criminal conduct, have made the mayor politically vulnerable to the point that several political observers give her little or no chance to win re-election.
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