A number of pro-voucher advocates, including Utah Attorney General Mark Shurt-leff, expressed concerns about public education employees sending or receiving political messages on their government e-mail systems during the referendum campaign to repeal the voucher law passed by the Legislature.

So guess whose name is prominently displayed in a political e-mail sent to Jean Hill, attorney for the State Office of Education, at her government e-mail address?

It's none other than Utah Attorney General Mark Shurt-leff.

Hill, who was Shurtleff's Democratic challenger in the last election, received an invitation to an "intimate reception" at the New Yorker Wine Cellar on Friday to raise money for the re-election campaign of Republican Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller. The event, said the e-mail, will feature as co-hosts Gov. Gary Herbert and Shurtleff.

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Tweets, twitters and texts, oh my • Seventy-six-year-old Sen. Orrin Hatch obviously was well set in his ways by the time this whole cyberspace explosion came along.

So perhaps it's understandable that as he attempts to communicate with Utahns with his 2012 re-election bid on his mind, he is having some trouble with the Internet thingy.

Hatch has been posting on his Facebook his exciting adventures traveling through the state he represents. It's a good way to show one's constituents how involved one is, unless it exposes what appears to be a glaring ignorance of the state one represents.

"Just finished all 29 counties," Hatch wrote on his page. "Zooms NP is truly the granddaddy of Utah's beauties."

This is a wild guess, but I'm betting he is talking about Zion National Park.

Another post by Hatch says: "Stopped at Grannys in Never for a delicious rasberry (sic) milkshake."

After several people mentioned on the page that Granny is in Heber and they never heard of a Never, Hatch wrote: "Of course I typed in Heber, not Never, but technology didn't trust me. Everyone knows Grannys is in Heber."

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Cost of doing business • Several public school districts offer a service to make it more convenient for parents to sign their children up for the school lunch program. They can order the lunches online and put in as much money as they want at a time to cover the lunches until the allotment runs out.

But, alas, just like everything else these days, convenience costs extra.

It costs $10 per student to register for the lunch program online and $1 per student every time the parent adds money to the account.

Jordan School District spokesman Steve Dunham says those are administrative costs paid to a third-party server who handles the online program for the districts.

Parents can opt to do it the old-fashioned way and send money with their students to pay at the office and skip the administrative costs.

But that is so 20th century.

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Going all the way • Jim Bennett, the son and former campaign manager of Sen. Bob Bennett, who lost his bid for re-election at the Republican State Convention this year, not only is working for the campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Sam Granato, as I noted in a previous column, he is now a paid campaign staffer and heading up the "Republicans for Granato" campaign.

Jim Bennett has started a Facebook page inviting Republicans to join the Democrat's campaign against Republican candidate Mike Lee. And he has printed 500 "Republicans for Granato" campaign signs that have been distributed. He says he will soon print a second batch of 500 signs.

It is fairly safe to assume that Republicans accepting those signs do not drink tea.

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