RUTHFULLY YOURS

This past Saturday, over 3,000 delegates gathered at the Utah State Nominating Convention to select two candidates to be on ballot for the June 22nd Republican primary. The convention made national news because the delegates eliminated the incumbent Senator, thereby ending his 18-year career.

One of the two candidates who emerged from the convention was Mike Lee — an expert in constitutional law and the most reliable conservative in the race.

Mike Lee is the son of Rex Lee, who was one of the most prominent defenders of the Constitution in the past thirty years. Rex Lee served as Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan and was the President of Brigham Young University. But most importantly, he was a father to a son whom he taught to love the Constitution.

After law school, Mike practiced appellate law, served as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Mike also started a project called the Article I Society, where he gave lectures on the Constitution and the limits it places on the authority of Congress.

• Mike was the first candidate in this race to support the Enumerated Powers Act, which forces Congress to justify — under Article I — the constitutional authority for any legislation it adopts.

• Mike was the first candidate in this race to point out that the individual mandate in the President’s health care takeover was unconstitutional. He was the first to sign the pledge to repeal it.

• Mike was the first candidate in this race to stand up to the reckless spending in Washington by pledging to ban earmarks and to support a Balanced Budget Amendment.

• Mike was the first candidate in this race to stand up to the idea of career politicians by pledging to support a term limits for members of the House and the Senate.