Utah House Minority Leader Rep. Brad King and ten other Utah lawmakers endorse Obama

[Tweed]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695248716,00.html

House Minority Leader Rep. Brad King, D-Price, said Obama "has the electability to bring change to this country.

"Barack Obama is the candidate that tells people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear," King said. "I don't want someone with a plan ... I want someone with a vision."

"Rep. Carolyn Spackman Moss, D-Holladay, said she hadn't seen this kind of excitement about a presidential contender since John F. Kennedy. Moss said Obama is the key to bringing Democrats, Republicans and independents together with a purpose.

Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, said that he initially was backing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson because he felt that as a mountain-state governor, he would be sensitive to the same set of issues and challenges that Utah faces. With Richardson out of the race, McCoy feels that Obama "can and will bring change."

"Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, said that Obama's approach to health care reform was more comprehensive and superior to Clinton's campaign proposals..."

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Glad to see McCoy, only one of two openly gay legislatures in Utah, is backing Obama.

I'm hoping Ralph Becker, Salt Lake's newly elected mayor, endorses Obama as well.

[Tweed]

3. That would be a great endorsement!

[goodgd_yall]

2. I figured Utah with go with Obama

I don't think a predominantly Mormon state would go for a woman president. Now you may respond, the Mormon religion has been so kind to blacks either, but I think, between Obama and Hillary, Hillary is the kind of woman Mormans dislike and Obama is the kind of black man they can accept.