The concept behind internships is that they give young people a glimpse of how things work in the real world.
Unfortunately, one recent intern at the Utah Capitol came face-to-face with the shameful reality of how women can still be treated in our halls of power.
The young woman — whose name I’ve agreed not to use — told me she had been avoiding a certain, much older lobbyist for much of the last session. The way he leered at her made her skin crawl.
Then, with just a few days of lawmaking remaining, while she was doing her job, he approached and said: “Man, if I was 20 years younger, I would take you and push you against the wall and kiss you right now.