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Utah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366449-utah-paper-tells-hatch-to-call-it-a-career-in-blistering-editorial?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=trueUtah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial
By Avery Anapol - 12/25/17 08:04 PM EST
Utah's largest newspaper slammed Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) in a Christmas Day editorial on Monday while calling on the senior GOP senator to retire.
The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial board named Hatch their 2017 “Utahn of the Year,” a designation the paper says is given to someone who has “had the biggest impact. For good or for ill.”
The newspaper said Hatch earned the title based on “his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.”
“It would be good for Utah if Hatch, having finally caught the Great White Whale of tax reform, were to call it a career,” the Tribune's editorial board wrote. “If he doesn’t, the voters should end it for him.”
The Tribune went after Hatch for his involvement in President Trump’s decision earlier this year to shrink two national monuments in the state, saying there was “no constitutional, legal or environmental logic" behind the move.
“To all appearances — appearances promoted by Hatch — this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch,” the editorial states.
The Tribune also noted Hatch’s involvement in the passage of the GOP tax plan last week. The plan has been criticized by opponents who say it primarily benefits wealthy individuals and corporations, claims that backers of the plan reject.
The editorial criticizes Hatch for saying in 2012 that it would be his last campaign, but now appears to be preparing to run again in 2018, which would be his 8th term.
“Once again, Hatch has moved to freeze the field to make it nigh unto impossible for any number of would-be senators to so much as mount a credible challenge,” the paper said.
“That’s not only not fair to all of those who were passed over. It is basically a theft from the Utah electorate.”
“That’s not only not fair to all of those who were passed over. It is basically a theft from the Utah electorate.”
The Hill reached out to a spokesman for Hatch for comment.
Rumors have swirled that Hatch could retire to make room for 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his Senate seat, but Hatch’s office has denied the reports.
A poll from earlier this year found that three-quarters of Utahns want Hatch to retire.
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Queen of the Toadies
if someone (maybe at Heritage Foundation or the Koch mob) has a secret dossier on all these old farts. Something like "Mr. Hatch, do you remember that secretary you had back in the 60s? We had a little chat with her and.....".
These old guys do not want their legacy destroyed and will do anything or vote for anything to protect it until they retire.
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