Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-Utah) recent broadside against the credit union tax exemption left a lot of people saying, "Huh?"

Hatch had already announced he would not seek another term in the Senate this year, and Congress had just completed tax overhaul legislation, which could have been a logical place to raise the issue (although Congress may have to pass a "technical corrections" bill to clean up some of the legislation's messiest parts.)

Part of the answer could lie in the senator's relationship with A. Scott Anderson, president/CEO of Zions Bank, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City and has some $65 billion in assets.

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