Picture This

  Here's a picture. Now, you tell me what's wrong with it. You have the state's highest law enforcement official and the person who eventually replaced him in that office, relaxing at a resort, taking in the sun and body massages.
   At the expense of someone they had brought criminal charges against.
   That supposedly is what happened, Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow being the pair who did it. The picture of them doing this is so startling that I question whether it ever took place.
   Racking up thousands of dollars for a stay at a gated Newport Beach villa, and charging it to someone you were prosecuting? Yes, I do think of both Shurtleff (former attorney general) and Swallow (current attorney general) as good men, and shake my head in disbelief that they would do this. But, there the story is, front and top of the page in Thursday's Salt Lake Tribune, saying receipts witness that it did happen.
    Did. Spell that word frontward or backward, it all means the same.
Why? Why would they do it? Was it another of these "consulting" type things, where they did "consulting" work for the man (Marc Sessions Jenson), and then were just collecting after he went to prison? I do not know and can only say, if what was said to take place did take place, there might not be a good explanation, not one that justifies what apparently happened.