As key votes come up on what to include in final budgets, special interests have packed Utah legislators’ social calendars with a long string of free activities — usually with a complimentary dinner — to help lawmakers’ families have some fun.
Places hosting such events included the Utah Natural History Museum, the Living Planet Aquarium, Clark Planetarium, the Discovery Gateway children’s museum, the Hale Centre Theatre, Thanksgiving Point’s Museum of Natural Curiosity, the CenterPoint Legacy Theater and The Leonardo museum.
Not surprisingly, all those groups either requested state money from lawmakers this year or have in the recent past.