Facts don't support lawmakers' GRAMA tales. Bogus guest-worker offers. Huntsman to skip Iowa?

Happy Tuesday. BYU's Adam Brown has done the math and found that the most powerful persons in the Utah Legislature weren't actually the Senate president or House speaker. It's Sen. Stuart Adams and Rep. Don Ipson. Check out the fascinating number-crunching: [UtahDataPoints]

Topping the news: A GRAMA request for GRAMA requests (yes, you read that right) shows that the Legislature's attorneys might have over-estimated how much work they had to do on filling open-records requests. [Trib]

-> Scammers are offering bogus "guest-worker" passes to undocumented immigrants in Utah. [Trib]

-> Malpractice attorneys warn that a hospital credential bill passed by the Legislature could make Utah a dumping ground for bad physicians. [KUTV]

2012 watch: Jon Huntsman Jr. may skip socially conservative Iowa if he runs for president. [DailyCaller]

Tweet of the day: From @TySpace: "Does it bother anyone else that @governorherberttweets in first person? (ie obviously not Governor tweeting, no attempt to trick)."

In response: Sen. Orrin Hatch on President Barack Obama's Libya address: "This evening, the President failed to dispel the deep confusion about our operations in Libya. With our servicemen and women's lives in harm's way, the White House has to more clearly define and articulate the scope of our mission. The President's policy is contradictory and not well thought out. The Administration has far more work to do before it can claim it has a realistic strategy."

The Democrats' plan: Todd Taylor posts the Dems delegate plan: "The state of Utah will be allotted 34 delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention which will nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Five of the 34 are automatically allocated to party leaders. The other 29 positions will be elected at the Utah State Democratic Party Convention to be held on April 20-21, 2012. The plan will allocate delegates according to population in each of Utah's four congressional districts and prior Democratic voting percentages. It also provides for allocation of the delegates to Democratic presidential candidates based on the presidential preference vote at neighborhood caucuses to be held on Tuesday, March 13, 2012."

Out of Context catchup: The Horizon PAC, pitched as Huntsman's campaign-in-waiting, has dropped the big "H" logo -- in case Huntsman's potential presidential campaign wants to use it. [Trib]

Where are they?

• Hatch speaks to the American Council for Capital Formation (Johnny's Half Shell on Capitol Hill, then meets with U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue and later speaks to the Americans for Tax Reform.
• Reps. Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz return to Washington for votes.
• AG Mark Shurtleff joins the "surgeon general expert panel" discussion at the Health and Human Services building in Washington and later meets with staff of Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire.
• SL Co. Mayor Peter Corroon meets with Julie Peck-Dabling, the mayor's liaison to the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council, and then attends the County Council meetings.
• SLC Mayor Ralph Becker meets with department directors, chats about the city's capitol improvement funding recommendations, the information management services budget and then attends the RDA board retreat.
• WVC Mayor Mike Winder meets with Herbert's staff and attends a meeting of the city's RDA.
• Obama heads to New York for the dedication of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations building and later speaks at two DNC fund-raisers, one at the Red Rooster and another at the Studio Museum. He returns to Washington in the evening.

In other news: Gov. Gary Herbert signed 24 bills Monday, including ones to provide incentives to the movie industry, clamp down on real estate fraud and halt any state-run retirement benefits from being invested in Iran. [Trib]

-> Pat Bagley takes on Hatch's newfound tea party rhetoric. [Trib]

-> A government shutdown could put upwards of 50,000 Utahns out of work. [DNews]

-> Funeral services were held Monday for Hatch's mother-in-law, Edries N. Hansen, whom he called the "Queen of Newton." [CacheValleyDaily]

-> Bishop plans to introduce legislation with Sen. David Vitter to increase U.S. oil exploration and production. [Bloomberg]

-> What to do when your nearest state liquor store closes? Head across the stateline, of course. [ABC4]

-> A lawsuit targeting the e-signature ban moves forward as Sen. Curt Bramble defends the move against online petition signatures. [Herald]

-> SL County is considering requiring cat owners to license their pets or face a $250 fine. [Trib] [DNews]

-> DNews CEO take a seat on the Newspaper Association of America board. [DNews]

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-- Thomas Burr
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