I assumed this has something to do with all the Mormons who keep voting for Romney in primaries rather than sully their eternal souls by actually casting a vote for McCain, also known around these parts as “that one guy who could actually get me to vote for Hillary out of sheer frustration with the entire political universe.”

But “they needed to pick up a check” makes much more sense.

Here I thought I was the only one.

I know that Elder Faust held political office as a Democrat (I believe he was in the Utah state legislature). I don’t know if Packer was ever politically active. It seems possible to me that both men were Democrats out of family tradition, whose beliefs didn’t necessarily mirror all aspects of the national party platform.