Matheson provides food for thought

9/3/09 12:55 AM

Last February and March, I was fortunate enough to bump shoulders with legislators and lobbyists alike when I covered the Utah State Legislative Session for The Daily Utah Chronicle. I have to concede that the most notable was Mark Shurtleff, the Attorney General of Utah. I wrote a blog on this site detailing our meeting, or, rather, the meeting we didn’t have. Shurtleff ignored me. I wrote. I forgot. I forgot, that is, until my fiance was generous enough to snag me tickets to the MLS All-Star Game this past July. During halftime, I was desperate to escape the east-coast snobbery that had manifested itself in two blonde Connecticut wannabe lawyers that had heard David Beckham’s name once on Sportscenter and, thus, had become experts on the subject. She and I left our...