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Clearly, Mia Love is counting on voter ignorance to get elected.
Blazoned over I-15 is a Mia Love billboard with the motto: "Attacking problems, not people." Yet her campaign insists she has nothing whatsoever to say about the recent police shooting of a young man in Saratoga Springs, where she was so recently mayor. Might that not be considered a problem to be addressed?
Then there is her jaunty television spot featuring folk pulling on "one-size-fits-all federal education" T-shirts. Huh? While she does not mention them, she is apparently hoping voters will make the leap and assume she refers to the Common Core standards, widely but utterly mistakenly believed by many conservatives to be some federal plot to snatch control of local education.
The standards are the product of the Governors Conference. In other words, the states. Isn't that what the right wing wants? Even Utah's A.G. found "No fed control of Utah schools under Common Core" (Oct. 8).
There is an alternative to such pretense: Doug Owens a perceptive, honest, sensible man. He'll serve Utah better.
Michele Margetts
Salt Lake City