Today was a special day because it was my parent's 50th wedding anniversary party. We had it at Tuscany in Salt Lake. I am very grateful for the firm foundation they gave me and the childhood that I had.

I told my parents it is a big accomplishment to make it to 50 years.

Fact about MIDA
MIDA is gutting our constitutional republic.
The Utah legislature can fix this situation by passing new laws that bring MIDA back under the jurisdiction of our elected city councils and county commissioners.

Utah code 63H-1-202(2)(b)

MIDA does not have to adhere to the land use, zoning or regulatory authority of the cities or counties. MIDA becomes the sole-land use authority and exercises exclusive police power just like a municipality would.

H-1B visa program is undermining those graduating from college right now. Our kids and grandkids need to take priority over foreign workers.


From Phil Lyman "Utah graduates are some of the hardest-working, most capable young people in the country. They come out of our universities ready to build careers here at home. Too often, they are passed over, not because they fall short, but because corporations prefer to import cheap foreign labor rather than to hire and train Americans.

That is what the H-1B visa program has become.

The program was sold as a way to fill specialized jobs that no American could do. That was never really true. A former U.S. diplomat assigned to Chennai, India told Newsweek in December that 80 to 90 percent of the 51,000 H-1B applications she adjudicated involved fraudulent documents or unqualified applicants."

Unfortunately there are elected officials in Utah that are using their position to benefit personally. Transparency is a big issue. The citizens should have complete access to how every tax dollar is spent. Within MIDA the details of the public private partnerships including the details of the tax dollars going to developers are protected records. That is something the legislature must change

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has uncovered widespread inaccuracies in California’s voter registration rolls, including nearly 95,000 deceased registrants, tens of thousands of duplicates across state lines, and thousands of records with placeholder or fictitious birthdates.

PILF’s comprehensive review, based on a sample of 2 million active registrants, found:

94,516 deceased registrants flagged from comparisons with the Social Security Death Index and obituary records.
57,725 interstate duplicates where California registrants also appeared on voter rolls in other states, led by Washington (15,064), Florida (13,534), and Oregon (8,956).
3,104 same-address duplicates.
7,677 registrants with placeholder or fictitious birthdates, including records like “1/1/1900” or “1850-01-01,” complicating voter roll maintenance.
8 percent of sampled birthdates contained errors when checked against Social Security and credit bureau records, signaling systemic problems with data integrity.


https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-uncovers-alarming-errors-in-californias-voter-rolls-nearly-95000-deceased-registrants-tens-of-thousands-of-duplicates-and-placeholder-birthdates/

This will be interesting.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdprma__x55afrLLlNpJ4yKuzd_F36MubSj6jqhaJLQsyE7xQ/viewform

This pic was taken on Flag Day which was yesterday from our home in Bountiful. The sunset was amazing!

Most people do not know about the condemnation of slavery Thomas Jefferson put in the Declaration of Independence. It was removed in order to pass the document. Jefferson called those being sold as MEN in all capitols.

"The Christian king of Great Britain, determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce."

I highly recommend The Declaration's Forgotten Liberties by Charles a. Castleberry. It has so many wonderful insights.

Yesterday I got to take an air boat ride on the Great Salt Lake and learn more about the situation there.

There were about twenty of us and three different boats. Scott Fletcher was there too. He is running for Davis County Commissioner Seat A.

They said the lake is the lowest it has ever been. The brine shrimp lay their eggs in the coral. The migratory birds eat the shrimp. The lake is very important for the tens of thousands of birds that migrate.

The boats were very loud. We wore ear protection. The men that owned the boats were very knowledgeable about the lake. Our driver said the lake needs to have water rights so more water drains into it.

I feel like we either need to stop building all these high density developments or we don't need to worry about the water supply. It can't be both ways. Do we have the water for all this development that is being funded by the tax payers through PIDs and TIFs or do we really need to conserve?

I am at the gov ops interim committee. They are talking about the costs of elections.

Look at how many election bills were passed the last two sessions.