Citizens in Charge

Utah state legislators are expected to move soon on a proposed five-bill ethics reform package that would create an ethics commission, limit campaign donations and seek to improve transparency, but supporters of a pair of independent ethics reform initiatives are skeptical. “They want to be the fox over the hen house,” said Carmen Snow, a member of Utahns for Ethical Government, who is working to gather petitions in Washington County for a grass-roots ethics initiative that backers say forced legislators to consider their own reform.