I was first surprised to see the political ad funded by the secretive Club for Growth featuring Jon Huntsman shilling for Mike Lee, then disappointed, and finally amused. The source of amusement: the former governor saying he “knows [Lee’s] heart.”
I immediately thought of George W. Bush looking into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and seeing his soul. I don’t suppose Lee’s heart is as black as Vlad’s soul, but it’s a shriveled mendacious little organ.
Aside from the intensely embarrassing groveling Lee did in his texts to Trump’s chief of staff begging him to tell Lee what to say, what to do, to help keep his master illegally in office, why has no one been talking about how Lee cost the American taxpayers $24 billion (with a “b”) when, along with Ted Cruz of Texas, he shut down the government for weeks?
Does no one recall how Utah had to scramble to come up with state money to try to reopen our five National Parks? Lee counted on people forgetting that debacle, the sum total of Lee’s “achievements” in Congress.
I had so hoped Utahns would see through the nastiness and the lies of the TV ads being run puffing Lee and denigrating his opponent Evan McMullin. But it seems the spirit of discernment is weak.
We may all pay for that blindness.
Michele Margetts, Salt Lake City
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