Salt Lake Tribune – Cannon in line for possible promotion
WASHINGTON – Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office.
Huh? Why did they change the headline? Why is this a duplicate story? I blogged it yesterday.
Salt Lake Tribune – Cannon growing old in D.C.
WASHINGTON – Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office.
Here’s something else that caught my eye – the Trib always has a sidebar with the most-read and most-emailed stories, and the current list shows that lots of people are reading all about Chris Buttars, and all the letters to the editor criticising his anti-gay and anti-immigration stance, and generally giving me hope that there might be more tolerant people in Salt Lake than I previously thought possible.
Stories with the highest ratings by Tribune readers in the past five days.
Rebecca Walsh: Anti-gay patriarchy takes SLC to woodshed (522) Walsh: Buttars is craggy face of homophobia, racism (363) Leave us alone (215) Mitt’s untruths (155) Buttars must go (150) Fear and prejudice: No excuses for Chris Buttars (139) LDS Church asks lawmakers to weigh morality, ethics in immigration reforms (139) Buttars and gay people (121) Disgusting remark (114) Butt out, senator (114)
