Comments about ‘Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack resigns from Senate’

Thank you, Senator, for having the decency to resign. You may have been able to keep your seat, but it would have been a dishonorable action on top of the dishonorable action already committed.

Senator, I applaud your decision. I do see this as a responsible action.

Thank you Sheldon for being a leader, in good times and bad. Thank you for Legacy Highway, the Falcon Hill Development at Hill Airforce Base, for being fiscally prudent, for your economic development efforts that have brought thousands of jobs to Utah over the years, and, most of all, for being an example of collaborative leadership in the Utah Legislature. You will be greatly missed.

While it remains to be seen what Killpack and (disgraced former Rep) Mark Walker were doing between 9:00 pm and midnight, (other than drinking), but at least Killpack is now showing the good sense to cut his losses and not drag himself, his family, and his Party through the mud. Especially important with an Ethics Initiative hanging over the Republican Party's head. Too bad Buttars didn't have the same good sense when he embarrassed his colleagues and Party.

Responsible? He got caught! Now he is probably being pressured by his party to resign so he does not make them look bad. He is not responsible! Why was he drinking and driving? His father was killed by a drunk driver! You would think that would be the last thing he would do was drink and drive. But responsible? Is this the first time he ever got in to a car after having alcoholic beverages? Probably not!

Highway Patrol, ruining everything...........NOT!!!

LOL!!!!!!

Post-mortem ethics beats no ethics at all.
I hope he gets help.

One has to wonder, why he and Mark Walker were rambling around on 3300 South 700 East at midnight.

Was Killpack the "designated driver"?
Whose car was it?

Why did Mark Walker let Sen. Killpack drive?

Killpack with a disgraced former rep and current criminal Mark Walker in the same car. Drunk driving isn't the only issue here. What were these to doing together? Politics and politicians disgust me. Lets have an real investigation into what the speaker was doing with a lobbyist who also happens to be a convicted criminal. Walker wouldn't happen to be the lobbyist for alcohol interests in Utah would he?

I don't know how yet, but think it's related to the health care bill and the TARP. Socialist fascist communist Democrats!

Killpack was a rising political star in Utah. But it appears he associated with shady characters--Walker attempted to bribe his opponent to drop out of a political campaign. Hughes was involved with ethics trouble recently. The ethics panel did not act, but the vote for or against action was split along party lines.

Are Republicans in the legislature all corrupt? If not all Republican legislators are corrupt, then perhaps just the Republican leadership is corrupt? If not the leadership, it sure seems recent troubles are casting a shadow upon the Republican party. What else is going on up there that we never hear about?

Of course, a DUI doesn't correlate to corruption in the legislature. I am just wondering why you would hang out with Walker and Hughes.

Pardon me, your ignorance is showing. Killpack isn't the "Speaker", that would be Dave Clark. As a Senator, Killpack couldn't be Speaker even if he wanted. He was the Senate Majority Leader.

What he was doing with Walker is nobody's business anymore. But I'm sure you have workplace friendships and they had probably developed one of those from the time Walker was on the Hill. So they were hanging out as friends.

And there needs to be no further investigation. Killpack was arrested for breaking the law and will face the proper legal repurcussions, he has resigned for the sake of the Legislature AND his family and now everyone needs to LEAVE HIM ALONE!

While I seldom agreed with Senator Killpack, it is a sad ending.

Now it is a matter between a private US citizen and the courts, which are public records. His private family life is just that, private.

It was a fast, sudden fall for the man. I wish the best possible outcome for him and his family.

Oooooh. A little sensitive are we? You weren't at the same "fundraising" party that the other two were at were you? Or do you have "workplace friendships" with these two? We are know by the friends we keep, wouldn't you say?

Doesn't the Salt Lake County Jail usually hold DUIs (and most anyone else for that matter) OVERNIGHT? I wonder if Killpack experienced the same unwarranted abuse that is dished out there to even the most cooperative detainees? If so, he should stay in the Senate where he would be certain to fight for reform in the way suspects are treated.

Shame on Walker and Killpack for being out doing who knows what after leaving Hughes' fundraiser at 9. Don't you both have families? Don't your wives need your help!?! Doesn't Walker work with the church young men? Some examples, you two!

Just one more of the countless repuglican hypocrits.

How can anyone say thank you for your service? Wake up folks. His dad was killed by a drunk driver. Just another mormon hypocrite if you ask me. He had a bright future, but he should not have gotten behind the wheel.

Wow, what an appropriate reaction. Thank you, Senator Killpack.