Acting Mayor Alan Dayton was visiting his family in Ogden five years ago when he noticed an Ogden police car waiting at the bottom of a hill on Old Post Road to catch speeders. Dayton decided to warn his fellow motorists of the waiting speed trap, so he made a sign that said "Speed Trap. 25 mph."
The cops weren't amused. They approached Dayton and one officer placed him in a choke hold, rendering him unconscious. He was taken to a hospital where he underwent a CAT scan after having trouble breathing.
So the cops charged him with obstruction of justice (for warning people not to speed) and assault on a police officer, who was twice his size and was not injured.
The Weber County attorney, much to his later chagrin, pressed on with the charges and eventually was chastised by the 2nd District judge who dismissed them.
Dayton later won an undisclosed out-of-court settlement from Ogden.
Forget something? Workman's political team has chastised Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom for not advising Workman, as the county's legal adviser, that funneling county money to pay for an employee at the South Valley Boys and Girls Club would get her in trouble.
What the spin doctors failed to mention is that Workman had her own in-house attorney, who was being paid more than $100,000 as Workman's legal adviser. That, of course, was Republican House Majority Leader Greg Curtis, who left the county recently after his own double-dipping scandal.
RSVP? Salt Lake City resident Karen L. Miller booked a birthday party for her 11-year-old son Nels at Raging Waters six weeks in advance, sending out official Raging Waters invitations.
But five days prior to the event, to be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Raging Waters notified Miller that there had been an oversight and the park would not open that day until 4 p.m.
Miller took a day off work to check weather reports, re- arrange plans, confer with Raging Water employees, and notify parents the party had been rescheduled for 4 p.m. that same Wednesday.
Then four hours before the party was to start, Raging Waters informed Miller the park would not open at all that day as the water was too cold and they would have too few customers.
Going for a write-in? The Utah Elections Office, on its Web site, has a sample ballot to let voters know who is running in all the contested political races this election year.
Listed as candidates for president and vice president are Michael Badnarik and Richard Campagna (Libertarian), Charles Jay and Marilyn Chambers Taylor (Personal Choice), James Harris and Margaret Trowe (Socialist Workers), John Kerry and John Edwards (Democrat) and Michael Anthony Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution).
Missing from the electronic sample ballot is any mention of Republican candidates George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
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