Failed referendum organizers sue Utah lieutenant governor

(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Steve Maxfield, chairman of The People's Right, is vowing to fight in court the Lieutenant Governor's Office rejection of an application to start a referendum to erase tax reform legislation that just passed. A group of Utahns who failed to meet the requirements for launching a referendum to reject recent changes to the state’s tax laws have sued Utah’s lieutenant governor, seeking to have those requirements and their rejection overturned by the courts.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Steven Maxfield — chairman of the group The People’s Right — Daniel Newby and Maxfield’s 18-year-old son Morris Maxfield argue that a state law requiring the…