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Letter: What’s with Tribune’s chummy portrayals of Romney?

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(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) With Seven Peaks in the background, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, his granddaughter Allie, center, and wife Ann collect signatures along 640 West in Orem, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018.

“Mitt”? “Mitt” and just “Mitt” in a front-page headline (The Tribune, Feb. 17)? Did you not take journalism class in high school? Is this Salt Lake City or Mayberry?

Less than 1 percent of the United States population lives in Utah, but we’re not all on a first-name basis. And we’re not all good-ol’-boy, back-slapping buddies of good ol’ Mitt, hanging out together at Floyd’s Barber Shop.

Some of us actually feel that a man who runs when summoned by Donald Trump to eat crow in public does not have the sort of character we’d like to see in a U.S. senator.

But then, of course, neither does good ol’ Orrin.

Robert Argenbright, Salt Lake City