The recent Tribune editorial about the Utah Senate’s refusal to allow the records committee to function is important. Because if GRAMA doesn’t function, then our state government has walled itself off, able to hide itself from our state’s citizens.
As Timothy Snyder, a historian of central and eastern European authoritarian governments points out, the current picks for a Trump administration’s Cabinet members similarly have as their goal to make our national government, our way of governing ourselves as a people, dysfunctional.
Please continue to remain vigilant in not normalizing attempts to destroy democratic processes.
Rough roads ahead. Keep driving.
Mary O’Brien, Castle Valley
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