Editorial: It's time that GovCox started throwing his political weight around and pushing the state, its agencies, its Legislature and the community to more actively engage our problems, writes the sltrib Editorial Board.
nearly as high — started throwing his political weight around a little and pushing the state, its agencies, its Legislature and the community as a whole to more actively engage our problems, pushing back against those, in politics and out, who are far too attached to a backward-looking status quo.
Most of the sentiment from members of the Utah Legislature and other political activists has been to engage in magical thinking, to set a totally artificial endpoint for the pandemic and, once that date had passed, to stand down from mask requirements and oppose vaccine mandates. Rather than give up his weekly COVID briefings, Cox should be out there every day, on TV, at clinics, at schools, not just asking people to pretty please do the right thing but demanding it, sending his lawyers off to find something, anything, that would stand up as a necessary executive order in a time of crisis and double-dog dare the Legislature to get in his way.
That is a balance of political capital that should embolden this governor, any governor, to move beyond posturing, to become dissatisfied with being a mere manager, to risk making a few enemies and disenchanting a few big-money donors, and really lead.
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