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Insider Poll: Peter Corroon's ads too negative? YES!!!

Governor Gary Herbert and Salt Lake County Mayor Corroon were in FOX 13's studio for a governor debate. Utahpolicy.com FOX 13 political insiders seem to say negative ads are in the eye of the beholder. About 79 percent of Republicans say the ads from Peter Corroon showing a sale sign in front of the Governor's Mansion are too negative. 78 percent of Democrats say they raise legitimate issues.

Corroon’s Negative Attacks Backfire

Any press is good press, right? Maybe not. This week, Utah Policy released poll results showing that Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Corroon’s well publicized attacks against Republican Governor Gary Herbert may be backfiring. In recent weeks Corroon has fixated on campaign finance reform, continually lashing out at Governor Herbert for accepting large campaign contributions from companies with state contracts and tax incentives. The poll shows that Corroon’s attacks may be causing the public to view him unfavorably.

Utah Policy reported that a poll was conducted of 600 registered Utah voters on favorable and unfavorable views of the candidates. About 39 to 40 percent of the people in the study gave Corroon a favorable view, but about a third of voters gave him an unfavorable view.

Discussion of the issues in a campaign is obviously imperative, but negative campaigning is never pretty and often backfires.

Corroon’s Negative Attacks Backfire

Any press is good press, right? Maybe not. This week, Utah Policy released poll results showing that Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Corroon’s well publicized attacks against Republican Governor Gary Herbert may be backfiring. In recent weeks Corroon has fixated on campaign finance reform, continually lashing out at Governor Herbert for accepting large campaign contributions from companies with state contracts and tax incentives. The poll shows that Corroon’s attacks may be causing the public to view him unfavorably.

Utah Policy reported that a poll was conducted of 600 registered Utah voters on favorable and unfavorable views of the candidates. About 39 to 40 percent of the people in the study gave Corroon a favorable view, but about a third of voters gave him an unfavorable view.

Discussion of the issues in a campaign is obviously imperative, but negative campaigning is never pretty and often backfires.

Corroon accused of breaking campaign finance law in suit

STORY FROM DAILY HERALD

The former chairman of the Salt Lake County Republican Party has filed suit against Democratic gubernatorial nominee Peter Corroon, accusing him of violating campaign finance laws that he signed as county mayor.
James Evans filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Utah's 3rd District Court. He wants Corroon to be ordered to return more than $300,000 in donations he accepted through his Corroon Leadership political action committee.
Salt Lake County prohibits individual contributions that exceed $2,000. Contractors that do work with the county are prohibited from donating more than $100 to county officials' campaigns.
Among others exceeding those limits, Corroon's PAC accepted $10,000 donations from the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, Utah AFL-CIO and AEB Enterprises.
Corroon campaign manager Donald Dunn claims the limits only apply to county races.
"There is absolutely no truth or merit in anything that James Evans has put in this lawsuit, and James Evans is notorious for having his trick-or-treat campaign surprises and being a negative dirty trickster," Dunn said. "It doesn't surprise us that we're seeing his head pop up right before Halloween."
Corroon has made campaign finance reform one of the signature issues in his race against GOP Gov. Gary Herbert. Corroon has proudly touted the county's campaign finance limits and said he would seek to put caps in place on a statewide level if he were elected governor.
Herbert has said he opposes campaign contribution limits.
Evans contends Corroon was effectively using his political action committee as a second mayoral campaign account in 2009, although Corroon had already said he wasn't seeking re-election as mayor.
Corroon didn't formally announce he was running for governor until earlier this year.
"That [PAC] was filed before he ran for governor in 2009," Evans said. "People gave significant amounts of money because he was county mayor, and he benefitted from it because he's county mayor."

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Peter Corroon's Style of Ethics

PETER CORROON'S STYLE OF ETHICS
Written by Utah Blogger Holly On the Hill

What is with these candidates who trumpet their support of ethics and then show their lack of? Last week, Salt Lake County mayor, Peter Corroon said he was going to run a positive campaign for governor. That lasted two days when he then released a 54-page document attacking Gary Herbert. Today, he allowed his press secretary to send around an email to all county employees ragging on the governor.

Jim Braden sent out an email entitled “Special Edition: Who’s In Charge” to all county employees. The politically motivated email links to every negative news article about Governor Gary Herbert – and of course nothing at all unfavorable to Corroon. Hello?!

Corroon is vocal in his support for ethics UEG style, yet he abuses his office as county mayor, says the governor’s mansion is for sale and that contributions of $50,000 should raise red flags, he himself is – wait for it – taking contributions of $50K from a company doing business with the county.

Kem Gardner’s company – Gateway Associates – developed & owns the Gateway as well as residential, commercial and retail in Salt Lake County. Salt Lake County owns property at the gateway including Clark Planetarium. The county pays Gateway Associates, Kern Gardner pays Corroon’s campaign. Nice.