(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) San Juan County commissioner Phil Lyman, wife Jody and son Davin listen to Dr. Bernard Grofman, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine who was hired to redraw the county commission and school board districts, at a public hearing in Monticello, November 16, 2017. The new boundaries would ensure significant American Indian majorities in two of three County Commission districts and on four of five school board voting districts as the result of a January 2012 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the Navajo Nation. The lawsuit seeks the redrawing of voting districts to reflect the 2010 U.S. Census.
How is it that Phil Lyman can make a fool of anyone believing in historic preservation by driving his ATV parade through protected lands and then pay off the $90K fine at a rate that won't pay it off in his lifetime? Does the court expect him to live to 120? Can I pay off a speeding ticket at a quarter a month? Or are those rates only available to loudmouth lawbreaking right-wingers?
Cal North, Kearns