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The Angel Moroni might want you to support vouchers, but he needs to brush up on Utah election laws.
I mentioned in Monday's column a series of ads that have been running on Utah radio stations extolling the virtues of tax credits through vouchers for parents who put their children in private schools.
One of the 30-second spots quoted the Book of Mormon: "And the people began to be distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning, yea, some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did receive great learning because of their riches."
But the people behind the ads might have run afoul of the law. Anyone who collects and spends money to promote an issue for the purpose of influencing an election must register with the Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office as a Political Issues Committee. The people who paid for these political ads have not registered.
The day my column item ran, officials at the Lieutenant Governor's Office talked to agents at Crowell Advertising, which placed the ads for a client who remains anonymous.
Elections official Joe Demma said Crowell agents promised to register by Wednesday. But by Thursday they still hadn't.
Demma says the office will send a letter to Crowell giving them 14 days to comply with the law, then it will be turned over to the Attorney General's Office for possible prosecution.
Fahrenheit 451: Randall Draper, the psychiatrist at the Utah State Prison, needs to receive his e-mails.
But one associate who needed some psychiatric information and sent Draper an e-mail at his Corrections Department address never heard back from the doctor.
That's because Draper never got the e-mail.
Why?
It contained a word that rhymes with whit. So it was zapped by the state's e-mail filtering system before reaching the intended recipient. Draper's associate re-sent the e-mail, removing one letter from that word to turn it into "hit," and it went through just fine.
Global warming skeptics: Four apartment, condo and townhouse complexes in West Jordan seem to have a water-saturation problem, despite our drought conditions.
The Ridge and Woodgate of Jordan Landing, Serenity by Trophy Homes and Renaissance complex have watered so much every day the ground is saturated, pooling in some areas. The nearby streets and parking lot, including an outside basketball court at the Ridge, also are liberally watered.
Meanwhile: The owners, tenants and gardeners at the Family Center in Midvale seem to get it.
The plants along the roads and between the stores are beautiful, particularly at the southeast corner of 900 East and Fort Union Boulevard. The flora is stunning year-round.
And the best part, sprinklers are never seen running during the day and there is no evidence of over-watering.