Comments about ‘Guv wants ethics study narrowed’

Oh no - we can't have outsiders tell us legislators what is right and wrong.

Only us foxes (legislators) can be trusted with guarding the chicken coup.

This is pathetic. We need a ballot initiative to let the PEOPLE decide. We need an independent ethics commission and an independent redistricting commission. Seems our legislators have forgotten who they work for!

Pathetic!

Understandable that Speaker Clark would discourage analysis of the means by which his Republican Party rigs the State of Utah's elections through single-member districts.

Perhaps under its "Elections" mandate, the commission can still consider electoral reforms that have proven to increase voter turnout, such as choice voting and instant runoff voting.

FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy has a lot of information about these more competitive and representative voting methods used in many nations around the world, and in several U.S. cities and towns.

The Governor should worry more about the ethics of the Executive branch and let the Legislature work on their own challenges. I suspect a few employees at the Department of Corrections would have some interesting stories to tell about ethics and executive leadership.

How about the Huntsman have his ethics panel study their own ethics? He talks about his distain for lobbyist influence on the political process, but then stacks his committee with lobbyists, political insiders, and trough feeders. How about Huntsman look into his own efforts to funnel taxpayer money into daddy's cancer institute?

"Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has told his government reform commission that it must stop looking at legislative ethics and redistricting."

Great pundit ammo for when he runs for President.

Indeed this is super pathetic. Ethics of all our elected officials have merkedly deteriorated and are probably our greatest current threat to democracy. The foxes no longer work for us chickens - - they own us.

Our greatest current threat is the desire for citizens to expand government and have it cater to their every need and to use it to punish some and reward others. This broad, expansive government foster corruption, with the politically powerful and the politically connected colluding.

Redistricting should be handled like teaching two kids how to fairly divide a candy bar. One cuts the candy in half, and the other gets to chose first which half he wants, the bar is really really divide evenly.
Let the majority party draw the map, but it takes a super majority of the opposition party to pass it.
If it fails to pass redistricting gets scraped for another decade.