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Weighing in at 260 pages of nightmarish complexity, House Bill 441 was launched too late, wobbled badly in hearings and was finally carried out on a stretcher while the governor and other politicians acted like the public outcry was just a simple misunderstanding. They pledged to go around the state now and “listen.”
I won’t question why the bill had large exceptions for special interests, was promoted by simplistic analysis and floated by overinflated rafts of political sloganeering. No. Others have already done that.
Now politicians want to listen. One could question why that didn’t happen before, but let’s at least be grateful. Yet at the same time, let’s be smart.
Let’s use the HB441 fiasco to talk about why not one in 10 – or maybe not one in 10,000 — Utahns really knew what HB441 would do to/for them personally.
That difference, the difference between public and legislative knowledge is “Representational Asymmetry.” Representational Asymmetry happens…
