Comment on Conflict of interest? Utah lawmakers must vote anyway

Rep. Jacob Anderegg was trying to adopt a child from China two years ago when the House started debating whether to double a tax break for adoptions. The Lehi Republican said he didn’t want bad press by voting for a bill that would financially benefit him. “So I took a walk” during the vote, he says. That was his only option “to be squeaky clean,” he says, since he could not legally abstain while in the House chamber.