Nightside Project Informed Me Tonight

FOUNDER CALLS FOR MINUTEMAN CHAIR'S RESIGNATION

The founder of the Utah Minuteman Project, while a guest on the Nightside Project, asked the organization's chairman to step down.

"We're going to ask Eli (Cawley) to step down," Alex Segura said.

I don't know if Segura had publicly asked for Cawley's resignation before the Nightside show.

Segura decried Cawley's support of the release of a list of 1,300 supposedly illegal residents. It was noted Cawley has called whoever compiled and released the list "a hero."


MIKE LEE KICKS BOB BENNETT LEGACY

Didn't know this till listening to the Nightside Project tonight: Mike Lee, the Republican Party candidate for the Senate, this week came out against public transit projects such as Utah Transit Authority.

Now, if I am correct, UTA owes much of the federal funding it has received to Sen. Bob Bennett. So, let's see, Lee and Tim Bridgewater first kicked Bennett out of office by defeating him at the Republican convention, and now, before he is even elected, Lee is kicking one of Bennett's legacies.


UTA HAS 4,000 LESS BUS STOPS?

A Nightside caller from Sandy named Mike said UTA has 4,000 less bus stops today than it once did. He said 90 percent of the bus service in Sandy has been lost.

UTA Chairman Greg Hughes replied that only efficiency is being stressed, and that it is all about ridership.

Hughes said that with five new spurs underway, UTA's urban train system is becoming the most expansive in the nation.