Golf, meals and flowers among lobbyist gifts
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Expensive meals, multiple rounds of golf and flowers are among the gifts state lawmakers received from lobbyists in the past three months.
In Utah, there are no limits on what a lobbyist can buy a lawmaker.
Financial disclosure reports due Friday show most of the gifts lawmakers received came in the form of free meals. The vast majority of legislators who received gifts aren't identified unless they had a meal that costs $50 or more.
House Speaker Greg Curtis and his wife had a $116 meal in Newport, R.I., paid for by an AT&T Inc. lobbyist. Republican Rep. John Dougall had a $178 meal at the Log Haven restaurant in Mill Creek Canyon paid for by a Utah Taxpayers Association lobbyist.
About a dozen lawmakers have signed a pledge calling for full disclosure of all gifts.
