Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Luz Escamilla is seeking to counter claims she would be unduly influenced by the LDS Church were she elected to head Utah’s capital city.
After keeping silent for weeks over what Escamilla called “attacks” on her faith, the state senator and Zions Bank executive posted a lengthy statement Saturday on her campaign website, calling assertions she would take orders from officials within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “insulting,” without merit and based on bigotry.
“Offering no evidence whatsoever, to claim I would do the bidding of the LDS Church is offensive to me not only as a member of that faith, but as a woman,” she wrote.