A new radio ad that launched this week tells Utahns that the state’s Constitution was ratified 122 years ago with an important system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
And part of that system, the ad emphasizes, is the state’s part-time Legislature that can only meet outside its regular 45-day schedule if called into special session by the Utah governor.
“That balance is now being threatened by a group of legislators seeking to rewrite the Utah Constitution to grant new powers of governance to themselves,” says a man’s voice in the advertisement.