Thread by @Patbagley

With the eyes of the nation on Utah, let me tell you how rotten and profoundly corrupt Utah’s deep, dark red Republican government truly is
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It is so corrupt Republican electeds don’t see their rottenness. Here Utah’s Governor compares self to “Available Jones”, from comic “Li’l Abner”. Jones was a sleazy lawyer who would do anything for money 2/

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Here I laid out how “The Golden Rule” in Utah politics works: Those who have the gold make the rules.

All perfectly legal, but corrupt as hell 3/

Here’s how Utah government squanders tens of millions every year to satisfy their rich donor buddies ... 4/

...while Utah remains dead last in per-pupil spending, even beating out Mississippi 5/

Utah RWers have embraced Trump’s no-mask bravado and married it to their second-favorite religion: greed. Predictably, Utah is now one of the world’s COVID hot spots 6/

Early in the pandemic Utah did pretty well. We were lucky. Then Gov Herbert and Lt. Gov Cox caved to pressure from legislators (who are owned by who, again?) and opened up too soon. Went from 10s of infections per day to 1000, and getting worse 7/

Reminder: you can actually go see who owns Utah’s legislators 8/

Utah Repubs love to brag on being recognized as “Best Run State” (most easily bought by corporations) by certain business mags, but are blind to surveys which find Utah #1
in:
Gender inequality
Fraud
Internet porn use 9/

I love Utah—it’s breathtaking landscapes and wonderful, generous people—and am proud to show them off to the rest of the nation. But we deserve better than the narrow, parochial, patriarchal “elite” running the state 10/

I could go on (and maybe will, later)

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