Think of the amateurish flyer from a group called People4SaltLakeCity, claiming candidates Luz Escamilla, David Ibarra and Erin Mendenhall were sheep manipulated by Gov. If a corporation really wants to back a candidate, their money will flow to a political action committee to be spent on so-called independent expenditures. That’s something, and it’s a lot more than the state does.īut remember “Jurassic Park,” when Jeff Goldblum, the scientist, said “Life finds a way.” In politics, money finds a way.Īs we’ve seen at the federal level, when contributions are capped, the money flows elsewhere. No person or business or political action committee can give more than $3,560 to a mayoral candidate or $760 to a City Council candidate. In fact, it would be hard to come up with a worse system to ensure accountability if you tried. Salt Lake City elections are the wild, Wild West when it comes to campaign finance.
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It may have a hint of sour grapes, but it’s also something he has been talking about for weeks.Īnd he’s not wrong. I made it a crusade not just to say no, but hell no.” “There was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars out there. “I would rather lose by telling the son of a bitches no, keep your damn money, I don’t want anything to do with it, than win and be off in a corner,” he said on KUTV. “I simply said ‘No,’ and I did it loudly to all the sleazy ones who came up and said, ‘Set up a PAC and we’ll do this for you,’ ” Dabakis said. He also used it as an opportunity to blast the “big swamp in Salt Lake City.” He was referring to outside, unreported money sloshing around in the city elections.
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After the results in the Salt Lake City mayoral primary flipped against him Thursday, Jim Dabakis stood in front of TV cameras - his natural habitat - to concede a defeat that came as a surprise to many.
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