Utah politician Jenny Wilson's a clever woman.
The Salt Lake County councilwoman will introduce legislation expanding the region's insurance laws to cover gay and lesbian employees. Expecting conservative backlash, Wilson, who is a Democrat, based her bill on Salt Lake City's, which purposefully ignores sexuality:
[Wilson] will urge her colleagues to widen the county's coverage to include any "adult designee" who lives with an employee and is financially interdependent.
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While the policy could have a profound impact on the county's gay and lesbian staffers, the benefits aren't tied to sexual orientation – a detail that could make the change more palatable to Republicans, who scuttled Wilson's first attempt to create a domestic-partners program.Under Salt Lake City's broader adult-designee policy, 78 percent of participants are not gay.
The council's dominated by Republicans 5-4, but we're hoping at least one GOP member can be persuaded to do the right thing, rather than the Right thing.
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and this folks is a heroin.
smells like a future president to me…
She's my man! We have a lot of reps to be ashamed of around Utah (Chris Buttars R. West Jordan, douche) and other "luminaries" on the dark leading edge of hate (Gayle Ruzica Eagle Forum, twat), but Jenny is a bright, hard working, a rising tide that lifts all up.
How ridiculous is it that they have to play these stupid convoluted games just to get people to agree to what should be common sense?
GO GIRL! Can we add BOTOX in health insurance policy too:):)
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