Does Salt Lake City really have a socialist Democrat as a mayor?

[Damn Ann the Man]

That would really be something to have the most progressive mayor (we're talking abou the balance between fiscal and social issues. Newsom is moderate to conservative on the latter.) in the middle of the most backwards state.

[kurtyboy]

1. I dunno--But I just saw him on Comedy Central

No kidding--he was with Dave Attell of "Up All Night". They were sitting in a Bar, and the Mayor was explaining how to get a drink in this "dry" city.

"It's easy," the Mayor explained about private clubs, "Just go up to someone and ask them to sponsor you..."

Then someone put a shot in front of the Mayor and the crowd began chanting, "Chug, chug, chug!"

They never showed the Mayor downing the shot, but from one edit to the next, the booze disappeared!

I might like this guy....

[West Coast Democrat]

2. He is progressive, and a good friend of Pres. Clinton

so you can be both!!

[David__77]

3. Rocky Anderson is great!

Salt Lake City is my "home away from home" (I live in California). Being gay, I really appreciate the cultural nuances there. Rocky has tremendous support in the gay community because, like the community, he is also alienated from the rightist hegemony. Things are changing in Salt Lake, and, slowly, in all of Utah.

[Damn Ann the Man]

4. lol...Who knows...

At this rate, Mitt the Mormon might even be electable by UT standards in another 20 years. :evilgrin:

[Hamlette]

5. Godless commie pinko

of the best kind.

I just love that we have an atheist mayor right in the heart of Zion. Salt Lake is more liberal than the rest of the state. It's almost impossible to elect a Dem to a state wide office.

He's not very vocal about his religious views, and if pushed he'd probably not admit it...now. But I knew him before and he's an atheist and very left.

He's also an as**ole. Very difficult to work for. Horrid if you're on the other side of a lawsuit. But that's a story for another day.

[Damn Ann the Man]

7. Good...

Maybe this guy won't surrender to the Church of Jebus KKKrist of Latter Day Supremacy like his predecessors.

[ldoolin]

6. The answer is yes...

Rocky Anderson I think the name is. Great guy.

Don't knock Salt Lake City. It might even be the most liberal city in the intermountain west. After all, what's its competition - Denver? Phoenix? Boise? Cheyenne? In many Salt Lake precincts in 2000, Bush came in third - behind both Nader and Gore! It's also surprisingly cosmopolitan. Since it's the headquarters of a minority religion that has had a history of being persecuted, the city is a lot more open to other minority religious beliefs than one might find elsewhere. Including, I would suppose, atheism.

[Damn Ann the Man]

8. But in Utah...

Mormons are often on the evil side of the persecution.

Much of what they got is warranted though: The LDS Church was a White supremacist organisation until 1978.

(More Liberal than DENEVER?!?! I'm surprised.)

[JanMichael]

9. I've heard he's a godless Lefty (like myself) from several sources.

And from this thread it seems like others have heard the same.

I've noticed that when a place is really religious there is often a bigger number of professed Atheists/Agnostics, I guess it's a backlash? Same with really conservative areas, they usually have in them very Left groups that are hell bent on destroying the status quo....