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As we work through the final day before the primary, I’m even more impressed with Ralph Becker and his campaign than I was before.
Becker’s campaign is using the strong team of staff and volunteers they’ve developed through a long, hot summer to drive a strong GOTV effort tomorrow. They’re doing targeted mailers - including letters [...]

Friday I posted about Jenny Wilson’s unwillingness to commit to attending the People’s Summit on Poverty - I also emailed the Wilson campaign expressing my strong desire they commit to attending.
I received a phone call from the campaign (I wasn’t home so they left voicemail). They thanked me for contacting them and explained that [...]

See the Trib for Details.
The biggest burst has come from Becker, who suddenly leads the field with 26 percent. For weeks, the urban planner and Utah House Democratic leader has maintained the Wilson/Buhler lead seemed soft and that his campaign had the momentum.

September 15 is the fourth annual People’s Summit On Poverty ; it will include a candidate forum.  Sponsored by the leading voices in Utah for the poor - AHAC, CORC, DRAC and Crossroads Urban Center, the People’s Summit is perhaps the only event of its kind in Utah - a day for community activists to come together to [...]

It’s the political silly season. With less than a week before the primary election the campaigns have done almost everything they can do with regard to swaying voters - there’s been door to door efforts, TV ads (the ones I’ve seen are pretty good - I’d say a bit above the average soft focus warm [...]

We’re less than week out from the primary election for Salt Lake City Mayor. Early voting is available through the County Clerk’s office and the City Recorder’s office.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - I’m a fan of Ralph Becker. He’s demonstrated in his years in the legislature strong leadership, dedication [...]

Two connected posts - first Street Prophets We’re All Dhimmis Now which links to Glen Greenwald’s The Islamist’s Are Coming:
Every now and then, it is worth noting that substantial portions of the right-wing political movement in the United States — the Pajamas Media/right-wing-blogosphere/Fox News/Michelle Malkin/Rush-Limbaugh-listener strain — actually believe that Islamists are going to take over [...]

An Open Letter to the Senate and the House of Representatives
From a Grandmother in Utah
Sent to:
Senator Patrick Leahy
Representative Ron Paul
Senator Harry Reid
Representative Nancy Pelosi
Senator Orrin Hatch
Senator Leahy and Representative Paul of the House, thank you. I am a 71 year old grandmother living in a quiet suburban village, Holladay, nestled in the foothills near Salt [...]

So the official filing date is past and we have our (probably) final list for the 2007 Mayor’s Race (from Tuesday’s Trib):
Mayor
    Ralph Becker
    Dave Buhler
    Keith Christensen
    Rainer Huck
    J.P. Hughes
    Quinn Cady McDonough
    Robert Muscheck
    John Renteria
    Jenny Wilson
The Mayor’s race isn’t the only one taking place in Salt Lake this fall - [...]

So, in Sunday’s paper, Paul Rolly wrote:
Jake Garn is mad. He says he is tired of being called the last Republican mayor of Salt Lake City because he was not the Republican mayor when he served as the city’s chief executive in the early 1970s.
This stance strikes me as more of the empty “bipartisanship is [...]

Yeah I admit it, I was late to the game in watching the The West Wing - I basically avoided dramas on TV for years then found myself one night absorbed by an episode - the writing was so clear, so sharp, the dialog was beyond perfect (the president’s daughter’s kidnapping was a sublime shark [...]

Last night, I was walking a precinct for the Becker campaign.  The basic schtick was easy - knock on the door, ask “Are you voting in the Mayoral primary on September 11?  Have you decided who you’re voting for? What is the primary issue for you in the mayor’s race?  Here is some information about [...]