About the Author? or is this another Joe Cannon?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Adrian_Cannon
Joseph Angus Cannon (commonly known as Joe Cannon) was Chairman of the Utah Republican Party from 2002 to 2006. Cannon was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992 (defeated by current Senator Robert F. Bennett) and served as an assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983 - 1985. He was named editor of the Deseret Morning News on December 8, 2006.
Cannon was born in 1949.[1] Cannon served a mission in Ireland, and also for a time served on the Isle of Man the ancestral homeland of the Cannons.[2] Cannon received a degree in political science, and, in 1977, a law degree, from Brigham Young University.
Cannon played a pivotal role in the purchase of Geneva Steel from U.S. Steel in 1987. Subsequent to that transaction, he became Chairman of Geneva Steel.
Other items to be found on the internet:
Joseph Cannon was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee. You remember the organizing committee. They were accused of bribing Olympic officials with cash and female escorts. But, most were cleared by fellow Utahns on the “Cannonized” Salt Lake Olympic Committee ethics panel. http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/11/olympics.01/?eref=yahoo
....was also embroiled in a controversy over his company, Geneva Steel’s, mysterious moving water shares. Cannon chose to not disclose the $85 million in water shares to the Federal Pension Guarantee Corp, who bailed out the Geneva Pension Fund (which was only 10% funded). Sometimes its nice to have a brother in Congress.
Mr. Cannon is a partner in the Law Firm, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Prior to rejoining the firm, he was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Geneva Steel from 1987 to 2001. He played the leading role in the purchase of Geneva Steel from USX Corporation and the re-opening of the plant in September of 1987. Mr. Cannon is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American and International Iron and Steel Institutes. He serves in the firm’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources practice and is also Co-Leader of its Public Policy & Political Law practice. He formerly served as Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, and Associate Administrator for Policy and Resource Management, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Cannon has also served numerous organizations in the following capacities: member of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute; member ofthe Administrative Conference of the United States; member of the Board of Trustees of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee; Chairman of the American Bar Association, Natural Resources Law Section, Air Quality Committee; Vice Chairman of the Committee of Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination; United States Representative to the Environment Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and capital campaign committee. Mr. Cannon is an active member of the Republican Party, currently serves as Chairman of the Utah State Republican Party Finance Committee, and is a member of the Republican National Committee.
I wonder if he is a Freeper too. I can guarantee he has FRiends here.
FIP to my post #12