Why don’t we just make Mike Lee mayor of Washington D.C. ? I see three advantages.
First, Lee could indulge his inexplicably urgent need to control the citizens of D.C. while actually trying his hand at governing, which is not something he really knows how to do.
Second, Lee could be constantly attending to the whims of our current president. Lee’s current pace of 100 texts a day may not be enough, after all, to emphasize how much he’d like to be on the Supreme Court.
Third — and most important — we could get a new senator, one who actually represents the needs of Utahns. We could have a senator who agrees with most Utahns that federal lands should stay in public hands and not be sold off. We could have a senator who doesn’t want to take health coverage away from 115,000 Utahns, as Lee just did when voting for the Big Ugly Bill. A senator who is civil and honorable and won’t celebrate murder, as Lee did when public servants were killed in Minnesota in June.
The list of good things a senator from Utah could do is vast. Mike Lee doesn’t seem willing to do any of them.
Patrick de Freitas, Salt Lake City
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