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“Time Changed Hatch” Mailer Factually Correct

February 29, 2012 by

Is Freedom Works as dishonest as Freedom Path?

This post looks at a mailer I call “Time Changed Hatch.” As with the last two mailers, I have tried to go to the primary sources and have also reached out to the Hatch reelection campaign for any kind of response they might have. They have directed me to the site realhatchrecord.com but declined to respond directly to the mailer any further. I have utilized their site to augment my research into the primary sources.

The mailer opens with the following paragraph:

“In 1976, Orrin Hatch went to Washington. And just as time has shaped Utah’s unique … [cont]

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Freedom Path’s “Outsourcing” Attack on Liljenquist Distorts Business Record

February 24, 2012 by

The latest mailer from Freedom Path falsifies Dan Liljenquist’s business record. The shadowy group, organized legally as a political action committee, is running fast and loose with terms and smears Liljenquist with shoddy research, obscure sources, and false information. Frankly, it’s just dishonest. [cont…]

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Freedom Path “Two Scoops…” Mailer Misses the Truth on Double-Dipping

February 16, 2012 by

Recently, I started to get glossy mailers lamblasting Chris Herrod and Dan Liljenquist, the two candidates who are challenging Senator Orrin Hatch for one of Utah’s seats in the US Senate.

I was not surprised. It’s not even an open secret that Orrin Hatch has been for the last two years preparing for a frontal assault on his renomination. Despite the fact that we are still a month away from the actual selection of state delegates for the Utah Republican Convention on March 15, I expected that Senator Hatch (and his PAC Freedom Path) would be actively campaigning to fill caucuses with his supporters and to control the message about Hatch’s and his opponents’ records.

What surprised me was message in the mailers. [cont…]

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Perspectives on last week’s debt debate: two sides of the same coin

August 3, 2011 by

How the “left” sees the recent debt ceiling debate/crisis… And how the “right” sees it… Is it any surprise that the politicians had a hard time finding a middle ground? They don’t see eye to eye on what the problem is in the first place. Also, what’s with this “super committee” that’s lacking any deficit […]

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Matheson out of loop on Utah’s US Attorney

July 28, 2010 by

We’ve mentioned the strange case of the possible selection of Republican Robert Burns for US Attorney of Utah by Democratic President Barack Obama.  Usually, the President selects members of his own party, and usually with the suggestions and advice of members of his party in the state.  In Utah’s case, there are few of these. […]

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