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Power to the people? Forget about it, Utah.
Giving too much power to the people is a dangerous thing. Republican lawmakers here in Zion know that. That's why, when the great unwashed passed a ballot initiative for an independent boundary commission to draw voting districts, the brethren undid it. Can you imagine what an independent boundary commission might do? Well, they might deep-six a very important tradition here in Utah: gerrymandering.
Giving too much power to the people is a dangerous thing. Republican lawmakers here in Zion know that. That's why, when the great unwashed passed a ballot initiative for an independent boundary commission to draw voting districts, the brethren undid it. Can you imagine what an independent boundary commission might do?
Well, they might deep-six a very important tradition here in Utah: gerrymandering. Christopher Smart Giving too much power to the people is a dangerous thing. Republican lawmakers here in Zion know that.
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