Salt Lake City Mayor (D) has an approval rating of close to 60%

S.L. still approves of Rocky, poll finds

But his popularity is low among LDS residents

Mayor Rocky Anderson remains a popular guy in Salt Lake City — except among LDS Church members.
So while state lawmakers, Davis County residents and others in conservative Utah might love to hate the state's most controversial mayor, his constituency is still in his corner.
In a new survey for the Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV, pollster Dan Jones & Associates found Anderson's job approval rating is 59 percent — about the same as it was in December 2002, just after the Main Street Plaza fray. The poll found 38 percent of city residents disapproved of the job Anderson is doing.
The poll, conducted March 7-10 and 14, included 268 city residents and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.5 percent.
"He really is a marked man in Davis County," Jones noted, explaining that Anderson's frequent anti-Legacy Parkway speeches have raised the ire of Salt Lake City's neighbors.

Besides bashing Legacy, Anderson has called some state lawmakers "extremist Republicans" and criticized many of their policies. Anderson's approach has at times rubbed people the wrong way, and City Council members have publicly encouraged the mayor to use more tact.
Still, former City Councilman Lee Martinez maintains Anderson's sometimes cavalier attitude endears him to many Salt Lake City residents who don't feel they are represented by the conservative state Legislature.
"With Rocky, we have someone that stands up for those of us who differ from the majority," Martinez said. "He's elected to represent Salt Lake City, not the rest of the state."
But even within the city, Anderson has some work to do to heal his relationship with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In August 2002, Anderson's approval rating among LDS Church members was 53 percent, an all-time high.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600118995,00.html

from what I've read.
I've also read some of his comments about the LDS church that sounded like he's a teenager trying to rebel against his parents. I was left thinking the man needs to grow up and stop making a big show of how much he doesn't like the LDS church.

You'll find more hatred toward people of the LDS faith in Salt Lake City than any other city in the country. This is because for a very long time we were looked down upon. Growing up as a Catholic I was told every day by my classmates that I was going to hell and that my parents were too. I even lost friends because I wasn't LDS. Though this has changed and there are actually A LOT of decent LDSers out there, it breeds a backlash from the non-LDS community.

Really though, Rocky is, IMO, the most progressive mayor in America and he's done a lot of good things for Salt Lake City.

that a group like the LDS church, that has been severely persecuted and misunderstood over the years, makes the same mistakes and acts the same way when they are the dominant group in control of an area. History is full of that pattern of the persecuted becoming the persecutors.

there really is a blatant as well as subtle prejudice against non-LDS, not only were we seen as inferior, but suspect and character-flawed. nice way to spend one's formative years isn't it?

County last fall - yea! :bounce:

There is hope for Utah yet (spoken from a hopeful Texan).