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:Eric Ethington (Author) | October 18, 2012
Republican candidate for Congress in Utah’s 2nd District, Chris Stewart, is claiming in the Salt Lake Tribune that he never took any stimulus funds, but it turns out.. he’s lying. Earlier today, 2nd Congressional District candidate Jay Seegmiller pointed out the hypocrisy of his Republican opponent Chris Stewart campaigning against the stimulus, when he himself [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 4, 2012
Salt Lake County Mayoral Candidate Mark Crockett REALLY doesn’t like people who post unfavorable tweets, apparently. When I got home this evening, I was greeted by a “Cease and Desist” letter from his attorneys. Back on October 1st, local blogger and host of The Left Show JM Bell posted a blog with copies of the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 3, 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah – At his press conference today, we asked State Representative (and Congressional candidate) Carl Wimmer why he brought a SPLC-certified Hate Group to Utah. His response? He fully endorses them. The Family Research Council is known nationwide for their mistruths, twisting and even outright lies. Their claims have been denounced by [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 11, 2011
Iowa – Here that sound? That’s Mitt Romney’s campaign circling the bowl my friends. While campaigning in Iowa today, responded to some hecklers that “Corporations are people, my friend” as he tries to justify raising the retirement age to support Social Security and Medicare rather than fair taxes on Corporations. Romney squares off tonight in [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 17, 2011
West Jordan, Utah – The vile and bigoted Senator Chris Buttars has finally retired. But that may not make a difference as we’ve just learned the leading candidate to take his place? His daughter.. reading over her positions. It’ll be the same thing. Ok so the picture is a joke, but the candidate isn’t. According [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 7, 2011
Cedar City, Utah- An openly-gay student body officer candidate at Southern Utah University has filed a police report after his campaign materials were destroyed and defaced with anti-gay slurs. The local police department is promising hate-crime charges if they can catch who did it. Payden Adams is currently running for the office of Student Association [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | August 25, 2010
Michigan – Secretary of State Candidate Ruth Johnson wants it absolutely clear to all teabag groups out there that she absolutely, positively and unequivocally hates them transgenders and homos. She’s announcing that she wants to make sure men can’t say they’re women on their DL’s and vice versa. In a move meant to match the [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 8, 2010
According to Misty Fowler at Saintless.com, Mayor Peter Corroon is expected to make a huge announcement regarding the governorship this coming Tuesday at 9:30 am. Corroon supporters, and the Mayor himself were incredibly bolstered these past weeks as a SL Trib poll showed that without even announcing candidacy, Corroon was already enjoying 30% support in [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 10, 2009
In the past week or so, it has come to light that then presidential candidate Barack Obama wrote a letter to an LGBTQ advocate group in California denouncing Prop 8 and similar amendments in other states. According to the Bay Area Reporter, the letter was sent to Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in June, [...]
"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.