Deedee Corradini's re-election co-chairs have entered the media blitz with a stiff and less-than-enthusiastic endorsement of the need for experienced leadership. According to their logic, the only person fit to be mayor is one who has been there before.
Come on, Jake and Ted. If that were true, Jake and Ted would still be selling insurance and teaching school. Jake would never have served in the U.S. Senate (after all, why elect someone to any position who had never been there before?). And I suppose being a senator in some way qualifies a person to orbit the earth in a tax-funded joy ride in a billion-dollar rocket.Perhaps the previous-experience-required maxim applies only to mayors, except for Ted and Jake, of course. Taken at face value, though, according to the Jake-Ted "mayoral experience index," very few people would ever make it into that post.
How did Deedee make it the first time? What was Deedee's previous city experience, before her election to the mayor's office? Can Ted and Jake answer that one for us? Maybe in their next paid announcement, they can read us a clue as to why Deedee should have been elected the first time around, or why they are willing to make an exception in her case to the previous "city" experience-required rule. By the way, is Jake a resident of Salt Lake City? I think he has spent too long in Washington, D.C., and Park City to really understand what Salt Lake City needs right now.
K.R. Pinegar
Salt Lake City