A few months ago, while announcing that he was going to run for U.S. Senate in Utah, Mitt Romney said that he would put Utah on the map.

Sorry, Mitt, but you already did that when you helped to foist the Olympics on our fair state back in 2002. You invited the world here to expose our (once) wonderful canyons and alpine meadows to the Adnan Khashoggis of the world. Wealth took over. People are rattling around in 12,000-square-foot mansions that proliferate in our valleys and foothills.

Now our pristine mountains are scarred forever as a result of development — not the kind that would occur naturally, but rather as a result of encouraging people to move here, causing unprecedented and needless growth along the Wasatch Front and cities like Heber and Park City. Thanks, Mitt!

Though you are only a part of the problem, you think just like the rest of our legislators. Grow, grow and grow. No matter we are a desert. Our highways are sick with traffic and congestion that gets worse every day. Zion National Park is crammed to the gills and then some. Big and Little Cottonwood are so bad that soon there will be fees to enter. The people just keep on pouring in. What next, reservations? A housing crisis is here. Falsely inflated property values as well. Companies like Facebook are encouraged by the money and the growth and the tax exemptions. It will never stop now.

You sold us out a long time ago. Indeed, Utah is on the map. It is too late. So crow about the part you and your rich cohorts played. Brag it up. You don’t get my vote. Personally, I would rather (God forbid) see a Democrat win.

Ralph E. Henry, Salt Lake City