Senate candidate Mike Lee addresses a crowd assembled at the Utah State Capitol during the "Tea Party Express" tour stop in Salt Lake City Tuesday.
Keith Johnson, Deseret News
Is Sen. Mike Lee an old-school political insider or a cutting-edge revolutionary?
This weekend Philip Rucker at the Washington Post explored the apparent conundrum presented by Lee simultaneously being both a consummate insider (he is the son of Ronald Reagan's solicitor general; a former Supreme Court clerk; second cousin of two other U.S. Senators; and a close family friend of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.) and someone who rose to power on the wave of the anti-establishment tea party movement.
There a lot of super interesting aspects to this piece we could go on and on about — it's journalism at its very best, folks — but you're probably best served just reading the actual article than hearing any more about it secondhand.
One thing we can definitively say, though: Rucker's Washington Post piece is only the second-best article profiling Lee. Click here to see the best.
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He's an insider, who is in the pocket of Energy Solutions. He claims to be a constitutional scholar, but his posts on UTube show him to be exactly the opposite. He is an embarrassment to Utah. Hopefully we can get rid of him the next time he More..