Now he has filed his own police report with the Provo Police Department alleging he was threatened by the family of Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, who himself is no stranger to testy confrontations.
Ridgway is supporting Bramble's Democratic opponent, RaDene Hatfield, and attempted to film a Thursday debate between Bramble and Hatfield at the Provo home of John Curtis.
When Curtis, who was contacted earlier in the day by Ridgway, informed the candidates of Ridgway's desire to film the event, Bramble objected, so Curtis assured the candidate he wouldn't allow the filming.
When Ridgway showed up with his camera equipment, he was confronted immediately by Bramble's wife, Susan, and Bramble's two adult sons. According to the police report and a blogger who was there to attend the debate, the discussion got heated and one of the young Brambles looked like he was going to "deck" Ridgway.
Curtis said he asked Ridgway into his study to calm the situation, but after a few minutes of conversation he felt Ridgway was getting too upset. Curtis said he needed to get back to attend to the 150 people at the debate, so he asked Ridgway to leave and he obliged.
Ridgway then noticed Highway Patrol troopers going to the house. Bramble confirmed he had called the UHP when he learned Ridgway would attend the meeting because, "he has threatened my wife," a charge Ridgway denies.
Ridgway supporters believe he is the reason the Legislature passed a bill last session, sponsored by Bramble in the Senate, that makes it easier to file stalking charges against an individual.
A bleak prophecy? Recent comments from an LDS Church leader have Mormon e-mails abuzz that dire times are coming and they had better prepare for doomsday.
Boyd K. Packer, the president of of church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles and second in seniority as a general authority to President Thomas M. Monson, first made the comments at an April LDS stake conference in Utah County.
He warned that the opulence and wealth the country has enjoyed is about to change and bad things are on the horizon. He also said members of the church who have sufficient resources may have to sacrifice to help the less advantaged.
He again made those comments during a fast and testimony meeting in his own ward earlier this month.
The comments have swirled around the Internet and triggered calls to the church from worried members asking for advice.
Church spokesman Scott Trotter said he couldn't say how many calls the church has received, but that church operators are reminding the callers that "anything they receive by e-mail from unauthorized sources isn't official and may contain mistakes in transcription or interpretation."
Ya can't escape it: You can put a Democratic Party fundraiser in Republican Utah, but you can't take Republican Utah completely out of the Democratic Party fundraiser.
Or something like that.
GOP trappings loomed subtly at the Democrats' Saturday fundraising event in West Valley City featuring Hillary Clinton.
As Clinton spoke to hundreds of her loyalists at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, on stage, near the Democratic officeholders and party brass sitting by the podium was a small table bearing water for the speakers.
The tops of the table legs were adorned with carved elephant heads.
