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Party leaders need to stay neutral until party members select the Republican candidates. AFTER the candidates are selected party leaders can enthusiastically support them.
Someone needs to be terminated over this, and I don't have a dog in this fight. I know a couple of the legislators and one of the challengers. Doesn't matter who you want to win, even the post about Lisa Shepard. If integrity matters at all, then someone gets fired over this.
And it is kind to offer the challengers the same priviledge. Is Mr Lockhart also going to go find the lobbyists who will pay for it, just like the lobbyists paid for the incumbents mailer?
A story was run in the Deseret News about how over 95% of all campaign funds come from lobbyists. For many, many legislators they get 100% of their funding from lobbyists.
So unless Mr Lockhart is willing to raise the money for the mailer for the challengers from lobbyists, like the incumbents, it is an idle offer.
Again, I know a couple of these legislators and there is NO WAY they have a couple thousand dollars for a mailer like this. Not picking on them, this was funded by lobbyists.
I know Lisa Shepherd and those calling her whiny just dislike her stance against vouchers. The entrenched Republican power brokers don't like the moderates coming after them on education.
First you have the legislators running bills to increase the amount of money going to charter schools, then they are building charter schools; you have members of leadership accepting "consulting" fees from companies heavily regulated by the State; you have Aaron Tilton and Mike Noel chairing the committee that oversees nuke regs and then starting their own nuke business, etc, etc, etc.
Apparently ethics does not mean a thing to the GOP. I guess we are just waiting for the Justice Department to intervene. Oh, Orrin Hatch has personally appointed and hand selected that crowd as well.
Such a simple rule, and Mr Lockhart ignored it. Too bad.
Problem #2: The damage has been done and another mailer will not compensate the challengers. You can put the same stamp on it, but the incumbents already have the advantage.
Problem #3: I really liked these Reps.
This calls for an independent investigation. Somebody's resignation, probably Stan Lockhart, ought to be submitted after we find out the truth.
Same trick. Same play book. Same lame excuses.
Do we look like we have amnesia, Stan?
She has been the Republican Legislative District Chair and has been extremely active in the Utah County and State Republican Party. She was elected by all of the county delegates to be one of their representatives on the State Party's Governing Body. She was one of the top vote getters. The delegates who know her trust her. I am one of the people who asked her to run. She is a leader who will not compromise. This is why the party leaders do not want her. They just want to continue to have their LAP DOGS there to vote however they are told. This is not her.
Whiner? I work with her. I do not know one time she has ever whined. She has kept a watchful eye out for the problems and pays attention to detail. She always helps the party with everything.
Should the mailings be prohibited from Jan 1st on?
Each candidate in the party must sign a �CANDIDATE DISCLOSURE� in which they say that they support the Party Platform. The Platform list:
ETHICS AND STANDARDS
�We demand honesty, integrity, morality, and accountability of our public officials. We will work to expose and stop corruption.�
How can we hold the members of the Legislature to those �ETHICS AND STANDARDS� and not hold party officials and paid office staff to the same; We Can�t! I call upon the Chairman, Office Manager and anyone else involved to resign their positions immediately.
Each candidates in the party must sign a "Candidate Discloser" in which they say that they support the Republican Party Platform:
ETHICS AND STANDARDS
"We demand honesty, integrity, morality, and accountability of our public officials. We will work to expose and stop corruption."
How can we hold public officials to those standards and not the Party Leaders; We Can Not! The Chairman of the Party needs to be held accountable for his and the actions of the paid staff when he gives them the authority to make decisions like this. The "Fab Five" should have known what the rules were also. They knew what the "House" rules were, why not the Party Rules?
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