Is the Republican establishment protecting their own by ignoring the actual law and implementing a far looser reporting regime?
From ksl.com
Candidate Claims Lobbyist Disclosure Laws Being Broken
October 18th, 2006 @ 4:14pm
John Daley Reporting
"Widespread and systematic violations" of state law, those are the words one political candidate is using today. He says lobbyists and the people who employ them are abusing the law, but the state office overseeing lobbyist disclosure disagrees.
Utah has been criticized for having some of the weakest ethics rules of any state in the Union. Much of that criticism is aimed at lobbyist disclosure rules, which have been called "vague" and "lax."
The latest red flag comes from Adam Ford, a Utah County-based attorney running as a Democrat in State Senate District 11. Today he delivered a letter to Utah's Attorney General asking that office to look into what he calls widespread and systematic violations of lobbying disclosure rules. Ford says, according to those rules, both lobbyists and their employers are required to disclose whether they employ any public officials and what the nature and interests of the clients they represent are.
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