“Inspired” by this “article”: Some legislative candidates opt against answering News questionnaire

You should read the article first, then what I say might make sense.

Dear Bob,

You got pretty whiny in your little “column” today, and, I thought maybe I’d pop you a quick note to tell you why you’re being ignored by a few candidates with your silly questionnaire.

1. - Why, why, why, even in spite of your trouble with a couple of Republicans recently, would you think that a GOP candidate would bother to fill out your questionnaire? You’re the Deseret News. You endorse Republicans, and, for the most part, and nearly always Republican Incumbents.

2. - Republicans don’t fear you because you, the Deseret News, are the GOP’s bitch. I know you tell yourself that you’re a state wide paper, but, c’mon, you’re the Republican Party Newsletter.

3. - Have you noticed how, since Joe Cannon took over the paper, the Republicans don’t treat you nice anymore? Why should they? Joe Cannon runs your paper.

4. It’s a shitty questionnaire. I know, as I know that 2+2=4, that it’s a shitty questionnaire. It doesn’t ask questions about issues as much as it panders to the right and asks loaded GOP favorable quest nuggets. It’s a turd, and you know it.

5. - Newspapers are dying and it’s wasting column inches like you did today that’s part of the cancer that is killing them. Not to be partisan, Rebbecca Walsh does it almost as often as you do.

6. - It’s a silly questionnaire.

7. - You use quotes, out of context and out of time, pulled from old notebooks when you can’t get someone on the phone, or, I guess, when you don’t feel like making the call. This may not have anything to do with that shitty questionnaire, but, I felt like throwing that in here.

8. - You didn’t quit when they hired Joe Cannon. You should have. Just sayin’.

There, I hope that helps.

However, I would have filled it out if I were running for office. Newspapers, even silly little church newsletters like the Deseret “News” deserve answers to their questions.