“Utah needs a political class that is more skeptical of the Harold Hills who frequent Capitol Hill,” writes the editorial board. “Which means it needs an electorate that demands a higher level of discernment among the candidates it votes for.”
The Waters Edge housing development along the east shore of Utah Lake is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.A quick-talking businessperson sees that the state of Utah needs something — or can be convinced that it needs something — and steps in with an off-the-wall plan to meet that need.
Which, all too often, they do. Because Utah voters aren’t paying enough attention and are too eager to reelect their easily flimflammed politicians.It often seems to add credibility to the plan, in the eyes of Utah’s elected leaders, if those proposing it have no discernible experience or expertise in the matter.
The event was canceled when staff at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality responsibly quizzed their opposite numbers at EPA and found out that the federal loan that was to be announced had not, indeed, been approved, or even moved up the list of contending applications. The fact that LRS and its CEO, Ryan Benson, had absolutely zero experience in such massive ecological engineering projects should have left the scheme dead in the murky water before anyone in a position of responsibility even expressed interest.
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