The trouble with pizza girls (and everyone else these days) is that they blog.
I love the internet and its bountious opportunities for citizen journalism. Ten years ago you would never have heard this story.
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I blogged that this was happening, and now it’s happened. I liked David’s Garber’s summary of the Utah GOP’s delegate bait and switch so much that I got permission to post it its entirety:
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It’s official! This morning, by a vote of 70 supporters to 12 opponents, Utah’s state Republican Party’s Central Committee voted to adopt [...]
Rob Alexander is one of the few Ron Paul endorced candidates running for State office; and he happens to be running in Utah. He’s running as a State Representative on the Republican ticket against a Democrat incumbent in the Utah’s 35th District.
I know Rob. I think he’s a good guy, and I like his politics [...]
I thought these emails were insightful as to the way the insider politics work in the Utah GOP:
—–Original Message—–
From: Ivan DuBois [mailto:idubois@utgop.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:15 PM
To: Utah Republican Party
Subject: State Central Committee Issue
Importance: High
Dear State Central Committee Member:
Today we received a written request from State Central Committee member Mark Shurtleff to give our [...]
I had the opportunity to see the Cannon, Leavitt, and Chaffetz campaign speeches at both the Utah County and Utah State Republican Conventions. When it became clear through successive rounds of voting at the state convention that David Leavitt wasn’t going to win and that even Cannon would probably lose outright to Chaffetz at convention, [...]
Here it is in its entirety.
Wall Street Journal
Union Libel
November 5, 2007
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Utah’s children may not excel in math or English, but their teachers are very good at instructing them in how to run a political campaign. As 2007 achievement test data show another disappointing year for the state’s children, the teachers union is [...]
I’m going door to door talking to people again today. On the one hand, it’s rewarding to meet so many people that are FOR parents’ choice in education, but it’s easy to see how this has been and continues to be a real uphill battle. It takes a long time to educate people on a [...]
Pete Ashdown (founder of Xmission and candidate for US Senate) will address UVLUG this Saturday:
Pete will present “Democracy 2.0: Open Source Government,” showing how the Federal Government can learn from the open source movement. He will talk about how the government can stop ignoring technology and use it to better the lives of all Americans. [...]
