Reader comments: Ex-politician misses thrill of campaign
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Good Man | 5:35 a.m. Oct. 12, 2008
Jim Hansen is a good man and did a lot for this state. The best part is that you always knew where he stood on issues and could count on him to never waver. Hill AFB which was threatened with closure at least twice is open today, and tens of thousands of Utahns employed, thanks to him. Best wishes in retirement because you've earned it.
Alan | 10:29 a.m. Oct. 12, 2008
I had the honor of serving as one of Jim's interns back in the early 90s. He was everything Bennett and Matheson are not: real and in-touch.
lionel | 12:09 p.m. Oct. 12, 2008
All that history yet his own home town of Farmington wasn't willing to bend the rules just a bit and let him have a little bigger head stone than what the code allows in the city cemetery! Hmmm, wonder what that was about? It wasn't that he wanted a huge towering memorial or anything, just a modest, but slightly larger, monument patterned after Governor Matheson's, a democrat by the way!
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Fred | 4:15 p.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Can you name anybody in today's Congress that could garnish every democrat and every republican vote in support of him becoming their ethics committee chairman? There just isn't any member who has the respect and the integrity. Twenty plus years as a congressman and he is still not a wealthy man. How different of a "bail-out" would we need if Dodd, Frank & Bennett and the rest were more like old onery Hansen?
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