06-12-2017 20:34 via sltrib.com

Utah lawmakers co-sponsored bill benefiting their employer

Salt Lake City • A review from the Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press finds that Utah has one of the country’s highest numbers of lawmakers working for a single company — with four working for Zions Bank.Legislators who work for Zions say the bank never tells them how to vote, even on a major bond bill this year that benefited the bank.Utah, like many states around the country, has a citizen legislature in which most lawmakers hold another job outside of public
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