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Rolly: 'Shadow' spices up campaign
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When campaign volunteers Metra Barton-Henry and Coral Coffey began distributing literature for Democratic legislative candidate Jen Seelig in Rose Park last week, they had no idea they were about to encounter "The Shadow."

The two women happened onto the residence of Seelig's Republican opponent in House District No. 23, Kelli Dickerson. They exchanged pleasantries and started to leave when their new friend decided to go along with them.

Dickerson told them to skip the next several houses on the block because those were her neighbors and already voting for her. As she continued to dictate which homes they should visit, they asked her to let them do their job alone.

The two women say Dickerson then followed them, picking up Seelig's literature from porches where they had left them. They finally gave up and left the area.

Dickerson says she only picked up one brochure from an abandoned house so it wouldn't blow around the neighborhood. She also says she wanted to look at it, even though she refused to take the brochure Barton-Henry and Coffey tried to give her.

"As long as we're talking about juicy tidbits," Dickerson added, "Jen Seelig has my bishop's name on her brochure as an endorsement, even though he got up in church and said he didn't endorse her."

So there.

Above the law? If neighbors around 2100 South and 2100 East wonder about the whoop-whoop-whoops sound they hear several times a day, it's a Salt Lake City motorcycle cop who doesn't like to stop for the light at that intersection.

One neighbor says he watches the officer, whose license plate is 1149EX, turn on his lights and siren to go through the light throughout the day. He says the officer is not pulling anyone over, is not rushing to an emergency and turns off the siren and lights as soon as he is through the intersection.

The witness says the officer is almost always prowling that area - looking for traffic violators.

Come back next Friday: Here is a new business concept: The Taco Bell in Draper locks customers out rather than letting them in to buy its products.

Malia Torgensen went to that Taco Bell to grab a bite to eat about 2:30 p.m. Aug. 5 and found the doors were locked. She knocked, but she was ignored by the employees inside. Finally, a customer got up and let her in.

She went to the cashier to place her order and notified her that the doors were locked. The cashier said that was done deliberately because they were short staffed and needed to catch up on the orders they were getting from the drive-through customers.

Torgensen placed her order, but noticed nobody was doing anything about it while the cashier moved to the drive-through window. She left empty handed, passing other customers stymied by the locked door.

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