Then a few years ago, the organization, which lobbies and provides training for 236 towns and cities, ventured off its beaten path, hiring cartoonist Mark Pett to design the book's cover. In 1998, the theme was growth. Pett poked fun at Interstate 15 construction in the north, clumps of houses around a single golf hole in the south and a mass of odoriferous pigs in the middle of a bulging state. Two years ago, Pett caricatured festivals, from Elmo's Horse and Buggy Days to Garland's Wheat and Beet Days. This year, Pett targets the Olympics.
Nothing is sacred.
A bobsled team turns down Gov. Mike Leavitt. SLOC could take a lesson from the gentle ribbing of the league's cover, he adds. Sometimes organizers react and make a situation even worse, as with the 'These are not the Mormon Olympics' news conference. For all its daring, the league's directory doesn't push the envelope. And Bullock forwarded Pett's drafts to league attorney David Church, who scrutinized IOC and United States Olympics Committee brand laws.