Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?

September 1, 2006 | This article appeared in the September 18, 2006 edition of The Nation.

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Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated a complaisant media and assailed the electorate for passively consuming government lies.

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