As the executive committee for the Utah Association of Community Services, we stay out of electoral politics. Sadly, recent “whisper campaign” attacks directed against Charlie Luke, our executive director and a member of the Salt Lake City Council, make it necessary to break our normal silence.
1.) At a time when our national political dialogue has degraded to what some now call a “post-truth era,” we hope to keep Utah’s discourse from following suit, and
2.) In attacking Luke, his antagonist is attacking by association all of us, our organizations and the very important and good work we do.