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Tuesday, August 19, 2008We're changing what?!
Today the DNews seems to have announced a legislative initiative to change the current referendum law.
Eh? We know of no movement afoot to alter the current system. We're not inclined to change the law. We feel the current balance is about right -- referendums and initiatives are tough, but doable. Now, we did have a wide-ranging, open conversation with the Deseret Morning News' Editorial Board yesterday afternoon, and part of it was a philosophical discussion on referendums and initiatives. The article, however, is foreign to the tenor of that conversation. Any push on our part to change the process is news to us. Senate President John Valentine talked to Doug Wright about the article this morning. We'll link to the podcast when it's up. [Update:] Here is the audio, about 48 minutes, 16 seconds into the first hour of the show. [Update, 7:30 p.m.:] Out of Context . . . the only two Republican leaders quoted in the story -- Senate President John Valentine and Senate Majority Leader Curt Bramble -- say it's the first they ever heard of such an effort.[Update, 9:34 p.m.:] SteveU.com . . . Editorial board meetings are recorded. If the D News can show me where any “GOP legislative leader” said we’d “take on the state’s referendum law,” I’ll print this entry and post a YouTube video of me eating it, saying, “Bob Bernick does not make up news,” between every bite. To the contrary, you would hear legislative leaders saying the exact opposite of what the D News reports; they would hear those leaders saying that Utah has the referendum balance in the right place.[Update, 8/20:] DMNews prints a ... Well, it's not a retraction. I'm not exactly sure what this is. [Update, 8/21:] SteveU.com: DMNews Fabricates More News [Update, 8/21/08]: Apparently, City Weekly didn't get the memo.
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8 Comments:
Please tell me my tax dollars aren't going to pay for your damage control blog.
Heh! Me guesses you didn't want this coming out till after the election.
Go DEMOCRATS!
Whatever.
Craigj - I don't know if "your" tax dollars are being spent on the blog, but if you are worried about the cost of it, you've some serious priority issues...
I'd personally like an explanation from the DesNews.
The actual cost of RC's time and use of the computer is not the point. A lot of what happens here is great. But this post looks like partisan message smoothing on the public's dime and probably should have come from 117 E. South Temple rather than Capitol Hill.
Did you see Bob Jr's latest? I posted this but they will probably censor.
Earth to Bob | 10:38 a.m. Aug. 22, 2008
That predictable vindictive swipe won't cover your lack of ethics. The bloggers are the only ones holding Bob Bernick accountable.
That Urquhart...he'll make a great Senator.
My latest comment on the Deseret Site is also being censored.
Earth to Bob II | 1:31 p.m. Aug. 22, 2008
Just a note to readers that my previous comment was censored.
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