Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s Popularity Takes Big Hit Back Home Over Shutdown Debacle
By David Ferguson
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:21 EDT
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is in hot water with his constituents over the role he played in the shutdown of the federal government, which was engineered by far-right conservatives in a vain attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare.
According to Talking Points Memo, both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal carried stories on Wednesday reporting that Lee’s popularity has taken a sharp hit in the wake of the shutdown fiasco, leading some Republicans to talk of fielding a primary opponent for the erstwhile tea party darling.
The Post claimed that for many years, Utah has been represented in the Senate by pragmatic, business-minded Republicans whose ideology was tempered by an interest in keeping the machine of government operational. Lee, on the other hand, has angered longtime party stalwarts and supporters by following Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on what many saw as a fool’s errand, the federal shutdown and the threats to refuse to raise the debt ceiling.
President A. Scott Anderson of Utah’s Zions Bank — founded by Mormonism’s spiritual leader, Brigham Young — told the Post that Lee’s no-compromise form of governing is bad for business.
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