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Letter: Why do Utah’s elected Republicans feel the need to continually embarrass the state?

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks with delegates attending the Utah Republican Party’s 2021 Organizing Convention at the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Saturday, May 1, 2021.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks with delegates attending the Utah Republican Party’s 2021 Organizing Convention at the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Saturday, May 1, 2021.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Utah’s attorney general must have better things to do with his — no, our — time than meddle in the business of another state’s investigations? Should not the people of Utah be concerned about the time that Sean Reyes spends joining ineffective briefs concerning what the states of Texas, Georgia, South Carolina or any other state in the union is doing?

Why do Utah’s elected Republicans feel the need to continually weigh in on trying to save the hide of a discredited anti-American former president of the United States?

Are there not enough important issues in our great state with which we have entrusted these people to concern themselves? It’s baffling to me, at least, why these supposed Utah public servants feel it necessary to embarrass the state by dragging us into futile efforts to further damage the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. Enough!

Mark E. Hurst, St. George

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