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Troubling conflicts of interest

These folks should not be allowed to serve in the Legislature.

We should replace them with public school teachers who have absolutely no conflicts of interest.

Did I just hear the Deseret Morning News agree that Global Climate Change is a real and valid concern? Please expound on that.

This is a rare editorial from the D-News that actually has teeth. Unfortunately, it is offered in a one party state with an anemic and dangerous legislature that doesn't need to respond to anybody over any topic...see voucher battle. Until we have a two party system, abuse will be rampant, and responsible legislators will be rarely sighted. Speaker Curtis also has glaring conflicts of interest in the Geneva road activity. I bet if you dig a little harder on the voucher push, you will see that some legislators have vested monetary interest in that ill-advised initiative. BTW, Eyres advertisement with the cookies fails to disclose his families immediate self-interest in culling money out of the legislature for personal educational projects.

This is what you get when one group becomes all powerful. With no chance of loss at election time, these republicans will do whatever they want. Utahns would do well to at least pretend they might vote for something other that the gop.

Hey 'I agree,' it would seem you posted on the other article addressing this issue. And I will respond the same, your cynicism is not well founded.

Every legislator has a conflict of interest. Not every legislator lies about it. Tilton has flat out lied about it, then when he is finally ready to admit it he comes up with some key stone cop ridiculous excuse that is as bad as Al Gore's "no legal controlling authority" crud.

Tilton is flat out wrong and has completely abused his trust. Every legislator has a conflict, very few lie about it and go out of their way to benefit from it.

And speaking of teachers likely the best example of handling a conflict of interest is former Rep Dave Cox, a teacher. He refused to sit on either the Ed standing or Ed appropriations committee so that he would not be involved in drafting either legislation or budgets that would directly benefit him. He did run legislation on education though was perfectly clear about how it would impact him. And he was the one who ran the bill that has allowed people to split Jordan.

Tilton needs to resign!

This is a lot to do about nothing. First these guys will probably go broke on a nuclear project in Utah, before a single kilowatt of power is ever produced. Second the legislature is made of of special interest members, that continually take advantage of the system. That is the way a part time legislature works, much preferred to a full time legislature. By the way not all that game the system are Republicans, there are just more of them.

You end your very good editorial with the suggestion that the rules need to be tightened. That's a softball ending to a hardball editorial.

I'm looking forward to the hardball editorial that makes more specific suggestions, that demands some ethical leadership from leadership.

Your editorial could have suggested that leadership immediately remove those guys from committees on which they have a conflict.

Leadership has a responsibility in this----and it is facilitating the conflict----probably deliberately.