Well what can you expect? The Park Record did it's duty in reporting the basic data regarding the Summit Council candidate's campaign financial reports but that is where they stopped.
Well what can you expect? The Park Record did it's duty in reporting the basic data regarding the Summit Council candidate's campaign financial reports but that is where they stopped.
My initial analysis of the Campaign Financial Reports for those vying for a seat on the Summit County Council shows the overwhelming amount of money donated to the Democrats and the essentially self-funded campaigns of the Constitution and Republican party candidates (note: Steve Weinstein (D) did self fund his campaign).
The fact that the four (Elliott, McMullin, Hanrahan, and Robinson) Democrats received donations of some $44,000 vs the some $4,000 for the Republicans and $0 for the Constitution Party is remarkable! Why the stark difference?
The Park Record article below is regarding the 10/27/2008 meeting of the candidates for public office in the North Summit High School auditorium. All the Summit County Council candidates were there as well as many of the state candidates.
As I was campaigning for State Representative in 2006, this was my second attendance at the event. This year it seemed like a smaller and more subdued crowd attended, but that is only my subjective evaluation. The format this year for the Council candidates was a three minute introduction and then we would take Q&As from the audience.
Alison Pitt mentions me in her response to the Park Record's question "Please differentiate yourself from your opponent." That is, Alison states (in part):
This 'Letter to the Editor' appeared in the 10/25/2008 issue of the Park Record (see below). Marion also sent an email to me (I assume Sally and Kathy also got one) about the incident. I responded with "I apologize for the placement of my campaign signs on your property. Thank you for removing them."
The Park Record, the primary Summit County, Utah newspaper, has a poll on its home page asking "how would you would vote in the Summit County Council race" or some such verbiage for each Council seat contest. Of course 'you' could be anyone, anywhere, and 'you' can vote more than once (from different computers and/or IP addresses).
If you are an anyonomous user, that is not logged in, the easiest way to view vote totals of a poll is to click on the 'Recent posts' text under 'Navigation' which should be in the upper left hand area of the site. Upon clicking on 'Recent posts', a list of recent posts will be displayed. Find the poll you are interested in and click it. A new display should then list the poll while giving you the option to 'View', 'Results', or 'Votes'. Click on 'Results' and the vote totals will be displayed.
The following article is from The Salt Lake Tribune dated 10/16/2008. It briefly describes the new County Council and gives a little blurb on the candidates. I am not sure where it pick my quote up from but it certainly, if I said it, is not among my finest. Points out that the media can pick and choose what and how they report you. I have placed in bold the content related to yours truly. Here is the article:
Summit voters to elect first county council
By Christopher Smart
It is that time again. The time to put out a few campaign signs that will hopefully encourage the residents of Summit County to get involved in the political process and know their candidates for public office. Yet the county regulations and the attitude of some residents work against the dissemination of that information.