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Utah lawmaker Paul Ray has a way of making enemies — and he likes it

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The Clearfield Republican has a knack of getting under the skin of folks he doesn’t know and likely will never meet.

Clara, a community organizer for Crossroads Urban Center, was involved in protests against the recent Rio Grande police roundup that led to more than 600 arrests, complaining that the exercise pushed criminals into west-side neighborhoods.

“What have you done to solve the problem other than whine?” Ray wrote on Clara’s Facebook page. “As one of the planners of Operation Rio Grande, I have been down there every day for the last six weeks and have not seen you down there once.