The TN senate passed the reso today 29-0-1. Things look good in the House, so we should add TN this month, I would think.
Today Utah House voted for the DLA 55-20, a good sign. The reso will be brought up tomorrow or Monday, depending on Rep. Powell’s reading of the vote. A win in Utah would be an upset. The CoS state director, Allen Boetcher, told me that if we got Sen. Lee’s support we would get a whole lot of conservative activists to join. We’re trying multiple approaches to him. We’re pretty certain he’s with us, but he doesn’t want to upset Eagle Forum, part of his base, and partly responsible for his caucus victory over Bennett. Kirk Uhler told me he’s really tight with Mark Levin, so I spent a few hours Tuesday and Wednesday waiting to get on Levin’s #4 ranked radio talk show. I got 3 or 4 minutes of air time. I told him we were looking to Sen. Lee for help. I didn’t get the impression that he’ll call Lee on our behalf. He’s an irritable son of a bitch, and he picked up that I was trying to steer him to a place he didn’t want to go. Over all, I’ve been told that it went quite well, though. I must say I was surprised by his lack of enthusiasm for our effort. He sent copies of his book to every state legislator in the country, and here we are doing what he passionately believes in, and yet a ho-hum response. Maybe the CoS guys are pals of his, or something. Anyway, my big idea of getting him to be our cheerleader doesn’t look promising.
I asked Kraig to contact reporter Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune. He wrote a pretty good piece on the committee hearing I testified at. We want him to call Lee’s DC office e and try to get an answer from the Senator on his position on HJR 8. Kraig tried, to no avail. He says Gehrke is a liberal who doesn’t do favors for R’s. Oh, well.
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