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Governor Gary R. Herbert’s Schedule

March 11, 2019 - March 15, 2019

**The Governor’s schedule is subject to frequent change**

 

Monday, March 11

10:30 a.m.  Meet with Leadership Team

Location:    Governor’s Office

 

12:00 p.m.  Meet with Lt. Governor Spencer Cox

Location:    Governor’s Office

 

1:00 p.m.   Meet with Chief of Staff

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

2:00 p.m.   Meet with General Counsel

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

3:00 p.m.   Call Constituents

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

Tuesday,  March 12

12:30 p.m.  Attend RVX Dealer Tradeshow

Location:    Salt Lake City

 

5:00 p.m.   Meet with Legislative Leaders

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

Wednesday, March 13

8:00 a.m.   Meet with Minority Leadership

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

10:00 a.m.  Speak at Scouting for Food Event

Location:    State Capitol

Media Access

 

Thursday, March 14

9:00 a.m.   Meet with Majority Leadership

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

4:30 p.m.   Conduct Media Interviews

Location:   Governor’s Office

Availability by Scheduled Request

 

8:00 p.m.   Conduct Media Interviews

Location:   Governor’s Office

Availability by Scheduled Request

 

12:00 a.m.  Address Utah Senate and House of Representatives, to Adjourn Sine Die

Location:    House and Senate Chambers, State Capitol

 

Friday, March 15

No Public Events

 

Lt. Governor Spencer J. Cox's Schedule

March 11, 2019 - March 15, 2019

**The Lt. Governor’s schedule is subject to frequent change**

 

Monday, March 11

10:30 a.m.   Meet with Governor’s Leadership Team

Location:     Governor’s Office

 

12:00 p.m.  Weekly Update with Governor Herbert

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

1:30 p.m.   Interview with Don Hudson, ABC4 Utah

Location:   Lt. Governor’s Formal Office

 

Tuesday,  March 12

11:00 a.m.  Film Davis School District Video Segment

Location:    Lt. Governor’s Formal Office

 

2:30 p.m.   Meet with Constituent

Location:   Salt Lake City

 

5:00 p.m.   Meet with Legislative Leadership

Location:   Speaker’s Chambers, State Capitol

 

Wednesday, March 13

7:45 a.m.   Radio from Hell Guest Appearance

Location:   X96 Studio

 

8:30 a.m.   Meet with Theresa Foxley

Location:   Salt Lake City

 

11:15 a.m.  Elections Review with Staff

Location:    Lt. Governor’s Office

 

2:00 p.m.   Film Salt Lake Chamber Public Safety Video

Location:   Lt. Governor’s Formal Office

 

4:00 p.m.   Shelter the Homeless Board Meeting

Location:   Salt Lake City

 

5:30 p.m.   Meet with Staff

Location:   Lt. Governor’s Formal Office

 

Thursday, March 14

9:00 a.m.   Meet with Majority Legislative Leadership

Location:   Governor’s Office

 

4:30 p.m.   Meet with Capitol West Boys and Girls Club

Location:   State Capitol, Gold Room

 

Friday, March 15

No Public Events

 

Saturday, March 16

10:40 a.m.   Utah College Republicans Convention

Location:     Utah Valley University

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In defense of being maladjusted

by Tom H. Hastings

564 words

“I never intend to adjust myself to the evils of segregation and the crippling effects of discrimination. I never intend to adjust myself to the tragic inequalities of an economic system which takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating method of physical violence. I call upon you to be maladjusted.”

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957

As we fumble along into the second half of a disastrous regime here in America, are we supposed to adjust to being gaslighted on a daily basis by a leader so corrupt he will say something in a speech that is recorded and then deny ever having said it?

Just last evening I was arguing in defense of some students at my university and an administration official made a misstatement. I corrected him. He then denied ever saying it. I instantly got a mental twinge, “Trump Effect Alert!” 

That administrator may have practiced decent social norms pre-Trump, I’m not certain. But he tried a buck naked gaslight on me and I still wonder if the Trump Effect—the normalization of blatant lying—is working its way into layers of our culture, our society, our daily lives. 

We all know there is a background rate of lying and cheating in our world, but we also think of some countries as corrupt. The Mexican bribe economy, the Afghanistan payoff scandals, etc. Since 1995, Transparency International has been actually ranking 180 of the nations around the world according to indices of corruption. They also correlate to democracy. 

Freedom House launched in 1941 and has ranked the countries of the world by metrics of democracy every year since the 1950s. 

When democracy is stronger, corruption declines. In the US, corruption is increasing and democracy is declining. Thanks to the Trump Effect, the US has fallen out of the top 20 in least corruption—“We’re 22!”--and has lost nearly 10 points in levels of democracy, sliding to 53rd place in the world, not even in the top quarter of the nations on Earth. “We’re 53! We’re 53!” Yeah, Make America Great Again. Everyone proud?

Are we adjusting to this? I hope not. 

The truly sad larger picture is that the world at large is becoming more corrupt and less free, from the nationalistic parties growing in the European Union countries like Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden, to the slide to the right in Japan, the Philippines, and other Asian countries. 

Probably the most profound irony is that the most free countries on Earth are democratic socialist and the rightwingers from Trump to La Pen (France) to Wilder (Netherlands) tend to conflate the bad old socialism (brought to nations by the gun in the Soviet Union and China) (or even more twisted National Socialism of Nazi Germany) with the democratic socialism brought in by the ballot in Denmark, Norway, Finland, etc., countries high on the freedom scale and low on the corruption scale. 

So please stop allowing Trump and his gaslighters to say that AOC and other young (or old) politicians who call themselves democratic socialists are driving the US toward the basket case Venezuela model. No. They envision a US much more like the Norwegian or Danish model—more freedom and less corruption than we currently have. 

I could adjust to that. 

—30—

Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice Director and on occasion an expert witness for the defense in court.