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3:56 PM, 20-May-2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

If you disagree with how your political party is being run, by all means take whatever steps you feel necessary to get things cleared up.

But let me offer a little advice: Double check the names and hit the spell check before you send your letters of complaint to Very Important People.

For the record, Jackie De Gaston has legal issues "concerning 17-year-olds being elected as county delegates and then being allowed to vote at partisan conventions."

De Gaston ran as a Republican against fellow GOPer Curt Bramble for Senate District 16. Her complaint stems from Hannah Lockhart's election as a GOP delegate at the caucuses in April. Young Lockhart is 17 and the daughter of Rep. Becky Lockhart and Stan Lockhart, the state GOP chairman.

Your honor! People's exhibit A in the case of Jackie De Gaston and the Poorly Constructed Letter:

De Gaston apparently sent a letter to both the state Attorney General's Office and the Utah County Attorney's Office requesting clarification of the matter. The latter would be Jeff Buhman, but De Gaston's complaint not only address him as "Jeff Buhmer" but later goes on to call him "Mr. Buhler."

People's exhibit B is apparently correct in the letter to the county attorney but not in the AG's letter. I propose to you that there is a missing vowel in this line:

"The comparison of the Utah State statutes and the Utah Cunty GOP Bylaws raises the following questions of law."

Again, I don't have a dog in this fight (which would make me a questionable reporter, and I have enough problems with that already) and maybe De Gaston is correct to question the Lockhart issue. But as every English teacher in this county has called to tell me on numerous occasions, if you can't get the little things right no one is going to take you seriously on the big things.
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