A confrontation erupted Wednesday afternoon around 1300 East and 14000 South when state Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, spotted the woman pulling up his signs. He confronted her and soon was joined by Draper City Council member Bill Colbert, who is running for the state school board and may also have had his signs uprooted.
The Draper Police Department was called and an officer defused the situation, but not before the woman claimed the two men threatened her with a hammer. They said she threatened them with mace.
The woman also was armed with an even more frightening weapon - a copy of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which she claims gave her a freedom-of-speech right to remove campaign signs she did not want to view.
Draper police Sgt. Scott Peck says pending charges against the woman and the two men are being prepared for screening by the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office. He hasn't decided what the men will be charged with, "but I wanted to treat everyone equal so we wouldn't appear to be giving favoritism to a city councilman."
A litmus test? Farmington resident Hal Christensen recently accompanied a high school friend from Maryland to St. George where the Easterner is toying with buying a home.
On the way, they stopped in a store on Main Street in Beaver to purchase fishing licenses.
When Christensen's friend pulled out his Maryland driver license, the proprietor asked, "Are you gay? When anyone comes in from Massachusetts or Maryland, they are gay."
The store owner also wanted to know if the man was a Republican or Democrat and whether he was voting for Bush or Kerry.
The visitor apparently answered all three questions correctly because he got his fishing license.
A unique costume: Residents of Summit County might open their doors on Halloween to see someone dressed as Luke Spencer of "General Hospital."
Anthony Geary, the Emmy-award winning actor who plays the heartthrob on the daily soap, will be trick-or-treating with his nephew Dax.
The 10-year-old's mother DeAnn, owner of Geary Construction, will be out of town so her actor brother is filling in.
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