Long-time senator praises editorial blasting his ‘utter lack of integrity’
Sen. Orrin Hatch called the Salt Lake Tribune’s recognizing him as “Utahn of the Year” a “great Christmas honor,” but the long-serving Republican lawmaker should have read deeper into the newspaper’s editorial.
”It would be good for Utah if Hatch, having finally caught the Great White Whale of tax reform, were to call it a career. If he doesn’t, the voters should end it for him,” the newspaper declared bluntly in a Christmas Day editorial.
The publication said it awards the distinction to someone who has “had the biggest impact. For good or for ill.”
“The selection of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch as the 2017 Utahn of the Year has little to do with the fact that, after 42 years, he is the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, that he has been a senator from Utah longer than three-fifths of the state’s population has been alive,” the editorial said. “It has everything to do with recognizing:… His utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.”
The editorial closed with a piece of advice Hatch, 83, gave Capitol Hill interns in 1983.
” ‘You should not fall in love with D.C.’ he admonished them. ’Elected politicians shouldn’t stay here too long.’ If only he had listened to his own advice.”
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