It’s Not A Good Day To Be Senator Mike Lee

Reports out of Utah are unequivocal; Mike Lee, the Tea Partier and numero uno wingman to Senator Ted Cruz during the recent shutdown hoo-ha, is in deep danger of losing his job in the next election cycle.

First: a poll conducted by Brigham Young University, showing that Senator Lee’s net favorability rating has nose-dived from +9 to -11, a net loss of 20 points in just a month or two. That’s a free fall by any other name.

Second: as The Washington Post discovered on the ground in Utah, business leaders who tend to run Republican politics are thoroughly disillusioned with Lee, because (among other things) they lost money — the idea! — during the showdown.

One of Utah’s chief industries these days is tourism, and the shutdown had a dilatory effect on that sector. Add that to the fact that the federal government is Utah’s largest employer, and you’ve got serious cognitive dissonance:

Spencer Zwick, a Utah native and national finance chairman for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, was more direct, calling Lee a “show horse” who “just wants to be a spectacle.”

“Business leaders that I talk to, many of whom supported him, would never support his reelection and in fact will work against him, myself included,” Zwick said.

By: rhb

Rob is a NYC-based Internet entrepreneur. He's also a businessman and job creator (wait: doesn't demand create jobs?) who understands the sense, and the eventual predominance, of the progressive agenda.