For Love or Money

Salt Lake City Weekly ^ | Nov. 19, 2014 | Colby Frazier

[The people have spoken]

From her days persuading developers to exterminate lake flies around her home near the banks of Utah Lake to her time as a Saratoga Springs city councilwoman and her now current place in history as the first black Republican congresswoman, a reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune has never strayed too far from Mia Love.

And that vault of reporting and data, much of which appeared on the Tribune's pages over the years, but some of which no doubt did not, is all available for $6.99 in the form of the e-book Mia Love: The Rise, Stumble and Resurgence of the Next GOP Star.

The book was published Nov. 5, the day after Love defeated her Democratic opponent, Doug Owens, by lassoing 50 percent of 4th District voters to his 47 percent.

But the book's timing, and the fact that it was penned by the same three Tribune political reporters who covered Love's career—and will most likely cover it long into the future—has drawn fire from some who worry that the Tribune's coverage during the pivotal campaign months might have been swayed by the presence of a side project.

[The people have spoken]

The book, Mia Love: The Rise, Stumble and Resurgence of the Next GOP Star, is available at Amazon.

[Iron Munro]