"I think a mayor's role is to set policy and to ensure the delivery of city services efficiently. I don't think a mayor's role is to have an office of minority rights," he says. "That's how I will reduce the budget by 25 percent after four years, is by eliminating all that sort of special-interest spending."

He says he would eliminate the city's parking meters and likely the Redevelopment Agency, which uses projections of property-tax revenue to assist the private sector with economic-development projects.

He vows to spend no money on his campaign, relying entirely on word of mouth and his Web site, huckformayor

.com, to get his message out.

"No special-interest group will vote for me," he says. "But I think there are a lot of people not into special-interest groups, whose needs are not being met by the government and are paying all the taxes, and they do not have a viable conservative alternative among the candidates."

Quinn Cady McDonough

McDonough has repeatedly failed to return phone calls and e-mails from the Deseret Morning News. He filed to run on the July 16 filing deadline, and that was the first time his name had been mentioned in the mayor's race.

What little is known about him comes from a MySpace page, myspace.com

/quinncadymcdonough, which purports to be his campaign site, although it could not be verified that McDonough himself runs the site.

"I have chosen to run for this position in an effort to get more people involved in the political process," the MySpace page reads. "I am a newcomer to this arena and hope that I will fare well."

The site says he is a 29-year-old college student. His occupation is listed as "politician," and among his top "friends" on the site are pages promoting a tongue-in-cheek Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert presidential ticket, the late country singer Johnny Cash and the (RED) anti-AIDS charity.

His friends also include "Save Sugar House," a page that aims to organize grass-roots opposition to redevelopment of the eclectic Granite Block shopping district.

In all, 102 MySpace users have agreed to be on his friends list — some of them apparently Salt Lake residents, but many of them oriented to interest groups, such as pages for musicians, organizations or national politicians such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Ron Paul, John McCain, Bill Richardson and Ralph Nader.

Under the page's "who I'd like to meet" section, it reads, "those who hope for a positive change in the world. Hope for a better place. Where the hungry are fed. Where the sick are cured. A change is upon us."

Robert Muscheck