Unsure of their political message, Republicans have silenced any opposition. Salt Lake County is politically volatile (can go either way), but it is gerrymandered into impotence. Nancy Workman (2004) was the last Republican county mayor, yet we have three Republicans in Congress representing the county. Note, there hasn’t been a Republican Salt Lake City mayor since Jake Garn (1975). Are we a Democratic county?
What should be a healthy give-and-take is throttled by anachronistic rural thinking. We left millions of dollars on the table because we thought we could administer Medicaid expansion better. There are five ballot initiatives circulating: medical marijuana, school funding, Medicaid expansion, redistricting and open primaries, because legislators are not listening, do not have to listen.