Letter: Utah has become a one-party state

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Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes has stated that he will count only the votes of Republican legislators. This is a declaration that Utah has become a one-party state, like China and Russia. Where do the constitutions of Utah or the United States state that a legislative leader may choose which constitutionally elected legislators' votes he will count, and which he will ignore?

This is a direct frontal assault on democratic constitutional government. It begs to be heard by the Utah Supreme Court. Will the state of Utah allow this to stand?

Greg Hughes is no doubt a loyal Republican Partiot. But an enemy of democratic constitutional government cannot be an American patriot. Quite the contrary.

(Note that "Partiot" is not a misspelling. It is intended to denote a man whose loyalty to his party has eclipsed his loyalty to his country, indeed blinded him to that country's most basic principles.)

Brooke Jennings

Holladay