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Courting Disaster: A Southern Utah Town's Apocalyptic Spending Project Raises Eyebrows

John Pelissero, senior scholar, quoted by Salt Lake City Weekly and The Spectrum.

A Utah city has begun a project to create disaster relief boxes across town, something the mayor has now patented. The problem comes if the mayor decides to profit off of the patent ad the boxes, as John Pelissero explains.

"The public's trust in the mayor or city government could be eroded if the public believes that the mayor has profited from the actions of the city government that he leads," Pelissero said, even if the private gain happens in the future.

John Pelissero, senior scholar, quoted by Salt Lake City Weekly and The Spectrum.

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