While I would rather not become a posting ground for specific campaigns, I received this email from Senator Jim DeMint and the Senate Conservatives Fund regarding corruption in the Utah primary. Here again we see the Chicago style tactics at work, trying to influence an election by using illegal politics. The people of Utah will have to decide. But they need to be making their decision on facts and some some skewed mailer sent from an unknown source.
“Dear Friends:
I don’t normally tell you about the political games being played in specific campaigns around the country, but today is an exception. Something happened in the Utah Senate race last month that you need to know about.
A political mailer was sent out to thousands of Utah delegates right before the May 8th Republican Nominating Convention, which smeared Mike Lee — the strongest conservative in the race. Negative attacks occur in politics all the time, but this one was very dirty … and very illegal.
The mailer was designed to (a) look like it was sent by Mike Lee to attack Senator Bennett and (b) to use Mike’s church affiliation to promote his campaign — something that is seriously frowned upon in Utah politics.

Illegal Mailer from Unknown Source
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, “GOP delegates saw the use of the religious symbols as inappropriate and the direct-mail piece — purporting to support Senate candidate Mike Lee — may have been among the factors that cost Lee his front-runner status at the Utah Republican Convention earlier this month, according to a survey by Brigham Young University’s Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy.”
Whoever sent this mailer knew that it would damage Mike Lee’s campaign at the exact moment when he needed the support the most. If this mailer had not been sent, it’s very possible that Mike Lee would have gotten the 60 percent he needed to win the nomination at the state convention without a primary.
What upsets me most about this anti-Lee mailer is that whoever sent it didn’t have the courage or the integrity to identify themselves. It was sent by a group called Utah Defenders of Constitutional Integrity, but no such group exists.
This sneak attack was launched by a bogus group in direct violation of federal campaign laws, which require groups to register with the FEC and provide contact information on all political communications.
We did research using the postal permit used for the mailer and found that it was produced by Precision Strategies in Alexandria, VA. We’ve called to find out who hired them but nobody is talking.
This is the kind of Chicago politics that you and I have come to expect from President Obama and the Democrats, but not in a Republican primary.
I’m writing to you today because I don’t want the people who did this to get away with it. And since we cannot find the source of this smear, the only thing we can do is make sure Mike Lee wins the Republican primary on June 22nd.
Many of you have already supported Mike Lee’s campaign. But we cannot stop there because we don’t know what other last-minute, bogus attacks will be made against him.