Governor Herbert Uses State Agency To Publicize Mitt Romney While Snubbing Mike Kennedy Before Primary
The
Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News have run an ad for 5 days promoting
the Utah Technology Innovative Summit on June 6 wherein they plan to award LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson a Lifetime Achievement Award. Utah Science
Technology and Research known as USTAR is a state agency. The sponsor of
the Summit is the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Both of
these agencies receive our tax dollars and therefore should be
politically neutral. However Mitt Romney and Ben McAdams have both been
invited to speak in front of many would be voters without their
political opponents being invited to participate. This
gives 2 candidates an unfair advantage to be in front of voters during
the election season and we the tax payer are paying for that. Public
funded agencies should not be publicly promoting candidates who are
running for office, they should be neutral when they are using our
money. At a minimum, their opponents should be invited to participate.
I’m happy to report after numerous complaints, in order to give equal
time to all Congressional Candidates USTAR did add a panel discussion
that will include all Congressional Candidates.
However we still have a problem.
The
ad promoting the Utah Technological Innovative Summit includes Mitt
Romney’s name and picture, he is a political candidate and is getting
free publicity; a dream come true for any candidate running for office.
However this free publicity is sponsored by State Government agencies.
As was mentioned above, it is not OK for state agencies funded with our
tax dollars to promote a political candidate with free advertising
during a political campaign.
Calls need to be made to our Governor Gary Herbert and
Lt. Governor Spencer Cox to let them know that they are misusing our tax dollars and
that Mitt’s picture and name can no longer be used to advertise this
event. In order to correct this misuse of our tax dollars and to be fair
to both Senate Primary Candidates a picture of Mike Kennedy promoting
the Congressional Round Table Discussion needs to be used to advertise
the Summit for the same number of days that Mitt Romney’s picture and
name was used. See Romney Ad in photo above.
Calls need to be made every day until they correct this problem.
Governor Gary Herbert's Office 801-538-1000
Lt. Governor Spencer Cox Office 801-538-1041
Thank
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Links-
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/05/21/campaign-rivals-cry-foul-after-state-agency-invites-mitt-romney-to-speak-at-its-tech-summit/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900019294/utah-to-honor-president-nelson-for-7000-heart-surgeries-cutting-edge-research.html
http://utahinnovationsummit.org/
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865695094/Who-is-President-Russell-M-Nelson-a-man-of-heart-compassion-and-faith.html
http://utahinnovationsummit.org/russell-m-nelson/
https://ustar.org/
https://business.utah.gov/
http://utahinnovationsummit.org/mitt-romney/
http://utahinnovationsummit.org/ben-mcadams/
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/05/21/campaign-rivals-cry-foul-after-state-agency-invites-mitt-romney-to-speak-at-its-tech-summit/
https://www.utah.gov/governor/contact/
https://www.utah.gov/ltgovernor/contact/
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