The Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office is requesting the attorney general investigate who is behind the series of ads urging Utahns to uphold the state's voucher law, with one of the ads reciting parts of the Book of Mormon to make its point.

But the actions of the anonymous group qualify it as a Political Issues Committee subject to finance reporting laws, says Joe Demma of the Lieutenant Governor's Office. That means the group was required to file a report by Monday, which it didn't do.

The ads were placed on various radio stations by Crowell Advertising. But the agency has refused to identify the client.

Hidden identity? When James Eastin got a letter from Spring Communications claiming he owed $150 from a Cingular phone he briefly subscribed to last year, he demanded the company send him a copy of the contract he supposedly signed.

When the copy came in the mail, Eastin sent it to me, along with copies of his signed driver license, his signed Social Security number, his signed apprentice plumber license and his signed time slip from his work.

The signature the telephone company claims is his is not even close to the others. In fact, the slant of the contract signature suggests a left-handed writer. He is right handed. But that didn't stop the telephone company from turning the claim over to a collection agency.

Eastin says after he was hassled by the collection agency for a while, he told the caller he had turned the matter over to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office with the evidence he had to show his his signature had been forged.

The agency stopped calling.

Speaking of identity crises: When Melissa Stanford got married, she applied for a new Social Security card with her new name. But when she received the card, her name was misspelled. She called the Social Security office in Salt Lake City and after being transferred five times, was told she would need to get a state-issued identification card or driver license showing the wrong last name, then apply for a name change again.

She called the Utah Driver License Division and was told she needed a marriage license showing the wrong last name to match the wrong Social Security card in order to get a driver license with the wrong name.

She eventually took all the materials to the Social Security office in Midvale and, after waiting 2 1/2 hours, the supervisor acknowledged the mistake and made the correction.

Wrong number: Those wishing to help with the Avenues street party Saturday to benefit house fire victim Bob Brossard can call Salt Lake City Council member Eric Jergensen at 913-2141. I had a wrong number for Jergensen in Monday's column.

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