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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUtah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366449-utah-paper-tells-hatch-to-call-it-a-career-in-blistering-editorial?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=trueUtah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial
By Avery Anapol - 12/25/17 08:04 PM EST
Utah's largest newspaper slammed Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) in a Christmas Day editorial on Monday while calling on the senior GOP senator to retire.
The Salt Lake Tribunes editorial board named Hatch their 2017 Utahn of the Year, a designation the paper says is given to someone who has had the biggest impact. For good or for ill.
The newspaper said Hatch earned the title based on his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.
It would be good for Utah if Hatch, having finally caught the Great White Whale of tax reform, were to call it a career, the Tribune's editorial board wrote. If he doesnt, the voters should end it for him.
The Tribune went after Hatch for his involvement in President Trumps decision earlier this year to shrink two national monuments in the state, saying there was no constitutional, legal or environmental logic" behind the move.
To all appearances appearances promoted by Hatch this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch, the editorial states.
The Tribune also noted Hatchs involvement in the passage of the GOP tax plan last week. The plan has been criticized by opponents who say it primarily benefits wealthy individuals and corporations, claims that backers of the plan reject.
The editorial criticizes Hatch for saying in 2012 that it would be his last campaign, but now appears to be preparing to run again in 2018, which would be his 8th term.
Thats not only not fair to all of those who were passed over. It is basically a theft from the Utah electorate.
The Hill reached out to a spokesman for Hatch for comment.
Rumors have swirled that Hatch could retire to make room for 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his Senate seat, but Hatchs office has denied the reports.
A poll from earlier this year found that three-quarters of Utahns want Hatch to retire.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)shenmue
(38,528 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,879 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Bleak future?
eleny
(46,166 posts)moondust
(20,308 posts)Queen of the Toadies
Takket
(22,360 posts)if the tax scam is going over like that in a red state, imagine what it will do everywhere else.
spooky3
(35,601 posts)elleng
(134,781 posts)Jackie Biskupski - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Biskupski
Jackie Biskupski (born January 11, 1966) is an American Democratic politician, and the Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon taking office, Biskupski became Salt Lake City's 35th mayor, the city's first openly gay mayor, and the second female mayor (after Deedee Corradini).
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Salt_Lake_City
babylonsister
(171,423 posts)elleng
(134,781 posts)Notice the ### of Dem mayors.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)They endorsed Bush in 04, Obama in 08 & 12 (I think Hillary last year) but also supported the tax bill and endorsed Mia Love last year.
It's owned by the Huntsman family now which worries me. I feel it'll move further to the right.
marybourg
(12,955 posts)I knew I saw a pig fly over my house earlier!
TygrBright
(20,933 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)Sounds as if it is more than just SLC.
question everything
(48,464 posts)when he was hugging Brady who is a foot, or so, shorter.
DURHAM D
(32,793 posts)truly creepy.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Stuart G
(38,726 posts)Let us all see the truth on this ass**le
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,581 posts)if someone (maybe at Heritage Foundation or the Koch mob) has a secret dossier on all these old farts. Something like "Mr. Hatch, do you remember that secretary you had back in the 60s? We had a little chat with her and.....".
These old guys do not want their legacy destroyed and will do anything or vote for anything to protect it until they retire.
......................
babylonsister
(171,423 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,274 posts)besides being disgusting, doesn't make sense unless they decided that's what they have to do, or else Trump has something on them. Maybe he does, considering that the Russians also seemed to have hacked the RNC, and maybe they found some dirt they gave their puppet, Trump (for a price, of course).
What's especially interesting is the fact that none of these GOPers ever fawned over any other GOP president like that, not even their saint, Ronald Reagan. They ardently defended even the worst policies of Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, but they never kissed up to any of them in public like they did with Trump - as if they were groveling before somebody like Louis XIV. So why is Trump different?
PCIntern
(26,421 posts)Was based on Hatch.
Smarmy and glad-handing in public, utterly vicious in private.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,199 posts)Down the Hatch, mates.
MrPurple
(985 posts)Claiming that a passage in the book about a pubic hair on a soda can was proof that Anita Hill was lying and had gotten the idea for that part of her testimony there. I wondered if Clarence had tipped him off that that's where he'd gotten the idea.
It's outrageous that this fossilized douchebag has been there for 40 years and Al Franken is forced to leave over bullshit.
babylonsister
(171,423 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)It's probably also up on Youtube
https://www.bustle.com/articles/154824-the-exorcist-anita-hills-soda-can-testimony-comparisons-are-inconclusive
mdbl
(5,186 posts)I would also like to use it for a number of other senators and house members. May I?
klook
(12,691 posts)as he himself described it.
The guy is a force for evil - I look forward to the end of his stinkin' career.
dae
(3,396 posts)roamer65
(36,905 posts)marble falls
(60,219 posts)he should have left ten years ago.
2naSalit
(90,893 posts)JustAnotherGen
(33,033 posts)Don't vote for him.
area51
(12,070 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Vinca
(50,752 posts)The most embarrassing spectacle since the blow job of a cabinet meeting.
MoonRiver
(36,927 posts)After all, if it can happen in Alabama...
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Mitt Romney is smiling, while trump is thinking up insults to use against him and the paper.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)They called him "Utahn of the Year" so he was thrilled. The paper uses that title, like Time's Person of the Year, to highlight someone or group who did something significant, good or bad. In Hatch's case, it was bad--very bad. But Hatch apparently only saw the title and didn't read the damning article.
Link to tweet
He's so like Trump, who thought the same thing about Time's Person of the Year.