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Shurtleff plans to run for U.S. Senate

Shurtleff is pretending to be a conservative but his record speaks otherwise. He will NOT be an improvement over Bennett.

If he has a better plan to get us out of this mess than let's hear it if not quit the name calling

Oh no here comes the check city nation, with general Shamleff at the controls!!!!!!!!

shirtleff and bennet. What a depressing choice.

Hopefully this will not impede the BCS lawusuit. He's got my vote, though.

. . . tired, old, ineffective, windbag, boring, advocate for TARP, chicken little on Y2K, and time to retire. I said earlier "anybody except Bennett," and I meant it -- I'll do everything I can to get him elected over Bennett.

Take any of Bennett's speeches from 1992 and you could pass them off as Shurtleff's. Kill the Department of Education! I'll only stay one term! etc. "I don't have any conservative credentials but that's what I'll start believing in if you send me to DC!" Words for republicans are just tools for getting and holding power, nothing more.

Contrast that to President Obama who told us he is a socialist and is actually governing as one. At least he's honest.

Shurtleff's track record on a host of issues, particularly illegal immigration, convinces me that he is no conservative. I consider both Shurtleff and Bennett to be skillful politicians who can be bought by special interests. I will vote for neither. Waiting for a TRUE conservative to step forward in the Senate race. Anyone listening?

Could this be the end of the dynamic duo of Senators from Utah who both ran their initial campaigns with "Term Limits" as a feature. And here they sit, decades later.

Not a huge fan of Shurtleff, but someone needs to get these two fossils out of office.

The following is taken verbatim from the KSL-TV Website:

Thousands Show Up for Monday's Immigration Rally
April 10th, 2006 @ 10:00pm
Amanda Butterfield Reporting

Monday was the second day of immigration rallying in Utah.

Even Utah's Attorney General was there, using the rally to voice his opinion on immigration reform.

Mark Shurtleff/Utah Attorney General: Many of my fellow Republicans will criticize me for being here. They'll tell me instead of speaking to you, that as the chief law enforcement of Utah I should be arresting you. [That's] not going to happen."

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff had the crowd roaring, telling them that unless they're breaking the law, they can stay. That's what everyone here wanted to hear.

While Bennett endorsed Mitt Romney early in the presidential election cycle, Shurtleff made his opinion known quite early as well. Shurtleff picked McCain, while Romney was still a viable option. Nobody with any intelligence can believe that Shurtleff is really a conservative or that he really has views that are in line with Utah's Republicans. For him to fuel his ambition for higher office with a challenge to Senator Bennett shows that he is nothing more than another demagogue.

Mark Shurtleff, to know him is to distrust him!!

Utah is not South Carolina. We have many political talent people available to serve in the U.S. Senate. Hatch has certainly overstayed his usefulness; 18 years is a long enough term for Bennett. Both of them were entirely too eager to please the Bush administration's misguided wars against terrorism so called and the Bill of Rights. They didn't have anything much to say about Bush's misguided deficits and bailouts of the financial sector: they both functioned happily as apologists if not just out right enablers. Therefore, thank you, no thank you, goodbye.

Mike Lee, son of Rex Lee, would be a very good alternative choice.

I would bet that you voted for Bush both times and supported him up until the very end. Now, you are all of a sudden having a change of heart. You know what Utah, wake up, you supported Bush more than any other state so is it any surprise the your representatives did as well!? They do indeed represent you!

Isn't it funny that Shurtleff didn't bother to think the BSC was worthy of an antitrust investigation until after the University of Utah was shut out twice from the national championship game? Is this the johnny-come-lately approach to the law that we want representing us in Washington?

I have never heard a more arrogant speech than what Mr. Shurtleff shared on the steps of the capital today. Why don't you check your ego, stay home, and quit throwong your wife under the bus for your own megalomania? There are many in our state qualified to lead and serve, and Mr. Shurtleff doesn't in any positive way stand out of the crowd.

Politics is such a catch-22- anyone who thinks we need them, well, we don't. The good ones are too humble to throw themselves into the mess that is politics, with few exceptions. Mark Shurtleff is not one of those exceptions.

Senator Bennett's involvment with the TARP mess is reason enough for me NOT to vote for Bennett again. I'm not a big Shurtleff fan, hopefully better choices will come forward. I think it is funny thought that Bennett has already started his ad campaign on TV.....he must be worried....and rightly so.

I wish him to run for Governor!

The one that is about to take over, is about as incompetent as Nero was a fiddler.

At least Mark knows his audience, law, and policy.

Gary (Hooverville) Herbert knows nothing about government, outside the mileage charts he has had to keep the last 4.3 years.

I'm excited about Mark. I've been a delegate and have known him for quite a few years and ALWAYS respected his honesty. He and I haven't seen eye to eye on every issue but the same could be said about me and my wife. He's a consistent straight shooter and that's what I love about him.