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:Eric Ethington (Author) | October 31, 2011
“Rising Nepal” is a daily newspaper in the small South-Asia country of Nepal, which happens to be where Utah State Representative Jen Seelig (HD 23) is on vacation right now. Imagine her surprise when she opened the paper to find news about Utah anti-LGBT Halloween party rules. The Salt Lake Tribune published an article by [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 24, 2011
Midvale, Utah – Alan Anderson is an openly gay man running for City Council in Midvale District 3. But despite the fact that he’s running against an opponent who’s on probation after pleading guilty to fraud this year, there are still some voters who say on camera they won’t vote for him because he’s gay. [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 21, 2011
Midvale, Utah – The Midvale City Council race for District 3 is drawing some interest around the state, as the frontrunner candidate plead guilty to defrauding his company last February. In the last few years, Infobase Media Corp, the parent company to LDS Audio, says that candidate Paul Hunt was stealing money from them, using [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 17, 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah – The final day of the Utah Redistricting special session has been marred by lie after lie from the Republican Legislators. Including a brand new map which they claim has been publicly vetted despite proof to the contrary. In a closed-door caucus meeting this morning, void of any public view, the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 14, 2011
Utah – Republican State Representative Carl Wimmer is focusing a large part of his campaign for Congress on a “Balanced Budget” amendment, but like many of his Republican buddies it seems that Wimmer’s ideas are anything but balanced. A balanced budget.. sounds like a great idea right? The idea of an individual, a company or [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 11, 2011
Once again it’s National Coming Out Day! And as always, I find myself thinking of all the teens out there who are going through what I did. To mark this day, I hope you’ll join with me in giving someone hope. Watch the video below. So many of us went through real horrors in our [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 6, 2011
Utah – BREAKING: PRIDEinUtah was just informed that during a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus this, Republican Senator Ralph Okerlund admitted that the GOP are drawing maps designed specifically to ensure Republican victory. In what can only be described as a moment of conscience, the Communications Director for the Senate Dems, Emily Hollingshead, tells [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 2, 2011
Beautiful email I received late last night. What is it that makes half of Utahns want to be Republicans? Well let’s list all the wonderful things they’ve done for this country in the past few years shall we? Published with permission: I guess you are proud of the last Republican administration, the one that had [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.