slog inaugural idiot of the week

Congratulations are in order for Sen. Curt Bramble of Provo, as he's the inaugural SLOG idiot of the week!

This wasn't a difficult choice, as Sen. Curt Bramble pretty much nominated himself with his actions this week. In fact, I summed up Bramble's idiocy in a rant of mine. Click here to view the rant.

To quickly sum up Bramble's total duplicity when it comes to even-handedness, we only need to look at his latest actions. Last year Bramble successfuly got a bill passed that would ban the use of RDA funds (money used for redevelopment) on sports complexes. This was in retaliation of Salt Lake City's bid to land a Major League Soccer Stadium. The only way Salt Lake City could pay for the stadium would be through RDA funds, as land downtown is not cheap to buy. However with their hands tied by the latest actions of Bramble, the city lost out and Real Salt Lake chose Sandy for the location of the new stadium. Now Bramble has decided to do a 180 and reverse his decision on allowing RDA funds when it comes to building sports complexes.

Well isn't that nice? He waits until Salt Lake City has pretty much no chance at getting the stadium and changes his tone on the entire matter. If I didn't know any better, I would think his actions were malicious in their intent and he was doing this to purposely deny Salt Lake a chance at the stadium. But that can't be, as all politicians are kindhearted individuals that would never do anything malicious. Yeah, right! And the Great Salt Lake makes great drinking water.

For those actions and the fact he just seems like such a bad guy, it's no surprise as to why Sen. Gramble is our inaugural idiot of the week.

You can contact Sen. Bramble here:

mailto:cbramble@utahsenate.org