Mayor of Salt Lake City...
I have lived in 8 states in my life and in some cases a couple of cities in those states. One thing I find interesting is how people in Utah act like somehow what the mayor of Salt Lake City does somehow effects them even though they live somewhere else.
In none of the other states I have lived in then any care who the mayor of the capital city was or could name the mayor.
So why in Utah is there such the big thing about the mayor of Salt Lake City? To start off with I am no fan of Rocky Anderson. I do think there is some good things he has done but overall there is not much he can look back on.
Of course the real reason why there is so much attention on the mayor is that he goes against conventional wisdom in Utah. Here we are in one of the most conservative places in the nation and the voters in the capital city dare to vote for democrats, how dare they!!
In fact if you look at most of the letters to the editor in the papers and the responses they get, most of the people who hate Rocky don't live in the city.
I guess the voters in the City of Salt Lake don't realize that they are not being a bunch of sheep following the rest of the state and voting party line and not by the quality of the candidate.
You know, all the people out there who hate Salt Lake's mayor so much do have a choice, they could move to Salt Lake and vote in the elections...then again what would all those people do without Rocky to pick on??
In none of the other states I have lived in then any care who the mayor of the capital city was or could name the mayor.
So why in Utah is there such the big thing about the mayor of Salt Lake City? To start off with I am no fan of Rocky Anderson. I do think there is some good things he has done but overall there is not much he can look back on.
Of course the real reason why there is so much attention on the mayor is that he goes against conventional wisdom in Utah. Here we are in one of the most conservative places in the nation and the voters in the capital city dare to vote for democrats, how dare they!!
In fact if you look at most of the letters to the editor in the papers and the responses they get, most of the people who hate Rocky don't live in the city.
I guess the voters in the City of Salt Lake don't realize that they are not being a bunch of sheep following the rest of the state and voting party line and not by the quality of the candidate.
You know, all the people out there who hate Salt Lake's mayor so much do have a choice, they could move to Salt Lake and vote in the elections...then again what would all those people do without Rocky to pick on??
posted by JMD at 12:33 PM
3 Comments:
You're not being entirely fair: Salt Lake City is a big city in a state of small towns. It throws its weight around (just think of the amount of property the corporation of Salt Lake City owns outside its borders)... moreover, it gets a lot of press — and since our state is seen as a homogeneous state, what gets in the press for one city reflects on everyone.
Just sayin'.
( And for the record: I voted early. Have you voted yet? )
:o)
You do make some good points but in studying the different states that I have lived in (plus several others I have spent months at a time in) Utah seems to be unique in this aspect.
Lets face it, the politics of Salt Lake City is very different from the politics in the rest of the state and that always will cause conflict. Just look at Washington State with the conservative east side and the liberal west side.
Since I never know if I will be out of town I always vote absentee and get in early unless there is an issue or person I have trouble deciding on then it might come down to the last minute.
But everyone knows Washington is heterogeneous... so it's hard for a single news story to paint the whole state. Just look at the debacle in Kanab... how that played in the press. Or that other city whose name escapes me now, that declared itself a UN-free zone.
We are unique — but hardly singular. And our collective problem with SLC isn't so much a problem with SLC as it is a problem with "bad press" — however the heck you define that.
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