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Utah’s Anti-Immigrant Hit List Compiled By “Concerned Citizens of the United States”

12:59 am EST July 15th, 2010 | News | 12 Comments

In Utah, someone has composed a list of 1,300 “illegal immigrants” that contains names, addresses, and most disturbingly the due dates of pregnant women. It was mailed to the media and an investigation is underway to see if it was compiled by state employees with access to this information.

This behavior is about as un-American as it gets.

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Utah Reduces Women To Second Class

10:01 pm EST March 16th, 2010 | Religion | 31 Comments

A new law in Utah not only criminalizes miscarriages but it has the overall effect of banning abortion altogether. For all intents and purposes, Utah runs as a religious state within the United States, and despite the hypocrisy of the self-appointed moral arbiters (see tub, hot and clandestine payoffs) on the right the last time I checked this was still America.

(via S.M.)

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Utah Republican Kevin Garn Paid Off Woman After Nude Hot Tub Encounter

12:39 pm EST March 12th, 2010 | Politics | 42 Comments

Wow

Kevin Garn

Utah’s House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude ‘hot-tubbing’ with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.

In a shocking statement on the House floor, Kevin Garn, 55, a Republican from Layton, said he paid her to keep quiet about the incident during his unsuccessful U.S. congressional bid in 2002, but did not have sexual contact with her.

Garn said the woman, who he didn’t identify on the floor, has been calling news outlets and that he wanted to be open about the incident that occurred when he was 28 years old, before any stories appeared.

A woman identifying herself as Cheryl Maher told The Salt Lake Tribune that she and Garn were in a hot tub nude when she was 15 years old.

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