Letter: What about the Utah newspapers, Mitt?
(James M. Dobson | The Spectrum | The Associated Press) This Oct. 9, 2018, file photo shows Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney answering a question about tariffs during the debate with Democratic opponent Jenny Wilson in the America First Event Center in Cedar City, Utah. Utah Sen.-elect Romney says President Donald Trump's "conduct over the past two years ... is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office." Romney, who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, is praising some of Trump's policy decisions in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. But he adds: "With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring.”
By Lori Gardner | The Public Forum
| Jan. 7, 2019, 2:50 p.m.
Excuse me, but I must be confused. Didn’t Mitt Romney campaign on the promise that he would put Utah first? Didn’t he say on the night of his election, “During the next six years, I commit to devote my heart, my mind and my energy to be worthy of the trust that the voters of Utah have given me"?
While I applaud his criticism of President Donald Trump, why was his op-ed piece first published by the Washington Post? What does it say about his political aspirations that he skipped the most influential Utah papers, The Salt Lake Tribune and, ahem, the Deseret News?
It speaks volumes as to why Jenny Wilson, a Utahn, should have been elected.
Lori Gardner, Salt Lake City
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