Brian’s Utah Weblog

A review of the big things at stake in Salt Lake County

The transit initiative (number three) will help determine the fate of Salt Lake County for a generation to come. It will raise about a billion dollars with a quarter cent sales tax to pay for badly needed transit lines. Diane Turner and David Wilde will determine a lot about our future also.

• First, electing Diane Turner will reward our wonderful Mayor Peter Corroon with a 5-4 Democratic majority on the council and help him cut the budget to keep our taxes low while services stay efficient.
• Second, Diane is a solid vote against any money for sports stadiums that isn’t approved by the voters in a referendum while Wilde is wobbly on the issue.
• Third, Wilde voted for the transit initiative but the rumors around the council chamber were that he refused to support it unless supporters could bring along one other Republican councilman first. We need a council that will take a stand for our future without cowering behind the skirts of either political party. I know Diane and I promise that she will do what she believes in and not what any party tells her.
• Fourth, read the Trib endorsement of Diane Turner.

Let’s take note that the leader of the legislature that put our transit money in jeopardy this fall is running to be reelected to the Utah State House in Salt Lake County. The corrupt Greg Curtis (R-Sandy), who has been caught double-dipping into state and county reimbursement funds, left the country in October and let his campaign warchest speak for him. Jay Seegmiller is working the ground to replace him in the 49th district in Sandy. If you want our transit money spent in Salt Lake County by Salt Lake County government instead of being taken by a greedy and vindictive legislature, vote for Jay Seegmiller in Sandy.