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Contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer. 2024 Utah County Commission candidate for the @UnitedUtahParty .
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I’m pinning this tweet as a jumping off point for some of the tweets and threads I’ve written that I want to highlight.
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@baseballcrank
“Never Trump” is not merely non-support for a candidate, but a rejection of all those things that made him unfit for public office: ignorance, dishonesty, malice, demagoguery, abuse, dereliction, impunity. His party acts like those are desirable traits in its next candidate.
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A very dangerous and unconstitutional trend is happening in Utah’s legislature. They have begun to pass laws that purport to give the legislature or its leadership power to unilaterally veto or override local administrative decisions. But that power isn’t a legislative one.
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It’s a simplistic philosophy, an unfortunate fad in Utah politics.
My family cannot use surplus to save the Great Salt Lake. It cannot build mass transit, fight wildfire, clean the air, educate the populace, staff the courts, or provide mental health crisis services.
My philosophy is simple. I believe that Utah families can spend this surplus better than we can.
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Mike Lee once again fails the test of character and fidelity to the Constitution and rule of law.
Instead, he chooses fidelity to a cult of personality that keeps him politically viable. And he does so by bearing false witness against those upholding the law.
#utpol
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Toddlers shouldn’t be forced to wear swim diapers in public pools. That should be the choice of the parents, who know their kids better than the government does.
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@SenMikeLee
@MLB
If you are seeking to change the law in order to punish a corporation for its criticism of a government action, then that is a textbook violation of the First Amendment that you're committing.
Mike Lee, constitutionalist only when it suits him.
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@MittRomney
It ought to cost the party your membership, and the membership of all others who still value honesty and integrity over position and power. Why remain affiliated with a party whose official stance is to punish truth tellers?
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@SenMikeLee
You effectively reduced the size of the Supreme Court to eight justices for over a year, in order to prevent a Democratic president from filling the vacancy with a respected centrist who had bipartisan support.
It's just more theater from you. No principled consistency.
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@SpencerJCox
Spencer, this is a fair comment only if you also say that the poverty and low life expectancy of Republican-governed locations in Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, and many other states are also what happens when conservative policies and candidates are left unchecked.
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There are several Utah legislators who are Very Online here, engaging in various forms of jabs, trolling, and culture war stuff.
Then there’s Rep. Garner here, who is using this forum to explain each of his votes in the last session.
Wish he’d get more attention.
#utpol
SB89 Y This will help retain state employees by making sure they are automatically enrolled in 401k w/max match (though they can change it anytime)
#utpol
#utleg
#3billsaday
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@ElectProject
2019 needs to see a nationwide effort to pass state laws reinforcing election integrity: monitors, chain of custody, audits, security standards for machines/tabulators/databases, anti-suppression, recusal reqs, and how/when to require a re-vote.
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The high road not taken by
@GovCox
.
BREAKING: Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes Kansas redistricting proposal splitting Wyandotte County, calls for fair maps
From
@KatieJ_Bernard
#ksleg
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@MittRomney
Senator, this would be an appropriate time to declare that you will not support a nominee until after the inauguration, because this president has demonstrated he cannot be trusted with the mechanisms and powers of government.
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@jstinson22
@PlzSaNo2FoxNews
@SoCal4Trump
@BenSasse
How would you have felt if President Obama had called for the Trump Org business license to be revoked over Trump’s birther conspiracy lies?
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@DanCrenshawTX
Congressman, may I suggest a better take?
“In retrospect it was mean-spirited of me last summer to capitalize on another state’s woes to score political points. Now that my state is in a predicament, I appreciate the federal help and pledge to be less divisive going forward.”
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@SenMikeLee
I note that you are using the legal standard of incitement, which is a matter of criminal law, and making as if it were the appropriate standard for impeachment, which is not a criminal process but political.
It's a sleight-of-hand that you know is dishonest.
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@chase931996
@BenSasse
@ThinkSayGo
"The Obama machine" that peacefully transferred power to a new one, which is the one needing scrutiny.
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@RepMattGaetz
Don’t forget non-Democrats like me. We also want unity on the same terms: those who incited or facilitated the attack and those who participated in it need to held accountable politically and before the law, and these divisive falsehoods about a stolen election must be renounced.
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@Nick_G71
@FrankJannuzi
@briantylercohen
For me it’s not the people who believe the lies, because there will always be those who are easily deceived; it’s the people who know he’s lying and who support and repeat and participate in the lies for the sake of influence. They’re the ones propping the whole charade up.
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@jstinson22
@PlzSaNo2FoxNews
@SoCal4Trump
@BenSasse
Let’s be clear: government suppression of political speech is a major element of fascism. Please realize this is what you’re advocating.
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@SenMikeLee
I’m a constituent of yours and I am strongly in favor of our continued support for and funding of Ukraine’s defense. It makes fiscal and strategic sense, because the alternative is not only far more costly in the long term but also subjects innocents to Putin’s brutality.
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@SenMikeLee
They are brave men and women, but please don’t pretend they were risking their lives by assembling on the streets of Washington DC in full battle gear against an unarmed civilian population.
Quit treating citizens as enemies and fomenting a warlike mindset against them.
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Simple fact,
@SenMikeLee
: if you are meeting with the defense team privately to discuss trial strategy, then you have foresworn your solemn oath to “do impartial justice” “in all things appertaining” to the trial. You ought to resign your seat if you won’t keep your oaths.
#utpol
Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham & Mike Lee just met in secret with Trump's
#impeachment
lawyers after the House Managers rested their case.
No senator can be completely impartial, as they're witnesses, indeed victims in their own right, but this is next-level, however unsurprising.
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@conncarroll
“Reward the taking hostage of military careers as a political tactic” is not your best thought.
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Sixteen Utah kids under the age of 14 were hospitalized with Covid in the past week.
Imagine if sixteen Utah kids were hospitalized due to a school bus accident, or a lightning strike at a peewee football game. Would we shrug our shoulders? This is more preventable than those.
In the past week, 1,001 kids age 5-13 tested positive compared to 153 for same period last year. The chart is below.
Four more kids under 14 were hospitalized since yesterday. That’s 11 since Friday and 16 in the past week.
#utpol
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@RepMarkMeadows
I’m not a Democrat but I used to be a Republican. The Republican Party that I once belonged to would not have tolerated foreign interference in our election or excused obstruction of justice by the president. That party is long gone.
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Several things wrong about the maps released by Sen. Sandall and Rep. Ray tonight:
1. Created by those two people away from public view
2. Released just days before session begins, limiting opportunity for public input
3. One map violates own standards
4. Blatant gerrymandering
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I’m going to claim at least a little credit for helping defeat Amendment A, since my op-ed in the Trib was one of the first pieces to explain it and call for it to be opposed. How much credit? Who knows.
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@ishapiro
@conncarroll
Strawman.
Minority rights can be protected without enshrining minority rule, which is what the apparent goal is of the Republican Party. They seek to disenfranchise and declare illegitimate their opponents, because they deem only themselves to be legitimate wielders of power.
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@ebonybowden
@SteveSchmidtSES
You had to have his full date of birth and house address in order to get to that screen in the Utah voter registration system. Perhaps your access to data is a function of how diligently you want to find it and for what purposes—doing a hit piece vs doing fact checking.
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It is a usurpation of the executive power to administer laws and the judicial power to review. It lets the legislature decide on its own how a law should be carried out, bypassing the checks and balances of law enforcement and trial that the other branches maintain.
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Utah friends: please take a moment out of your day, right now if possible, and call the Governor at (801) 538-1000 (press 2 to leave a comment) to ask him to veto HB 183 which gives an unconstitutional local-decision veto power to the Senate President and House Speaker.
#utpol
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A non-rhetorical Q for
@GovCox
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Does the legislative branch have the constitutional authority to give themselves veto power over individual administrative decisions by local governments or subdivisions? Not just power to alter statute, but to control/reverse its application?
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@SpencerJCox
Your party has officially blessed the attack on the Capitol last year as legitimate political discourse, and censured two Republicans who are assisting with the investigation of that day.
Please consider disassociating from the party. Should be a bright line.
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In my opinion, a “Christmas” photo that glorifies weapons demonstrates an idolatry focused on force and violence, not a celebration of the Prince of Peace or an angelic message of goodwill towards men.
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Utah’s reps in Congress all voted against Congress’s authority to enforce its subpoena against Steve Bannon. Their votes were not in the interests of Congress nor the nation but were to shield Jan 6th lawbreakers from accountability bc of partisanship. Shameful.
#utpol
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@SenMikeLee
Your party and the former president attempted to overturn the electoral results of multiple states. You did not condemn that. If states truly matter and this isn’t just a political slogan to provoke more conflict, then hold your own accountable.
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@SenMikeLee
You are more upset about this than you are about the government takeover of St. John’s Church and the denial of its parishioners and clergy to worship there. You have not said a word about that infringement of religion.
Where have your principles gone, Senator?
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@BasedMikeLee
He’s being prosecuted because he took an active part in the conspiracy to defraud the United States and to solicit false certifications for fake electors.
It was his choice to step outside his duties as chief of staff and outside the law to help attempt an autogolpe.
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@electbradwilson
1. Delete your tweet.
2. Post an apology for jumping to conclusions and falsely and opportunistically blaming the president.
3. Post a pledge to wait for facts to emerge before drawing conclusions, and to be as slow to assign blame as you are to accept it.
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@SpencerJCox
Respect for owning a mistake and being transparent about it. And 67% is still encouraging, even if it doesn’t hit the target. Thanks for continuing to advocate for people to be vaccinated.
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@jstinson22
@PlzSaNo2FoxNews
@SoCal4Trump
@BenSasse
You’re saying it’s okay for a president to seek to punish political speech?
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One year ago today, the redistricting committee in the Utah legislature ignored the work of the independent commission and produced maps that had been drawn behind closed doors and without public input, that gerrymandered the state for partisan advantage.
Utah – Confronting gerrymandering is a top priority for voting rights advocates in the state.
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Today I filed to run as a candidate with the United Utah Party for Utah House District 64 (Spanish Fork, Salem, Woodland Hills). I want to be a moderate, pragmatic, compassionate voice to represent the many people who feel alienated by extremism, dishonesty, and partisanship.
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I hope
@SpencerJCox
has seen this. It’s a good example of what he has been trying to persuade people to do. Not just disagreeing better, but engaging constructively to solve problems despite disagreement on other topics.
This exchange between Rep. Burchett and Secretary Buttigieg was really nice to see yesterday.
Watch till the end.
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@AGHamilton29
I watched the clip. The question he was answering was about the evolution of his thought on the issue. His answer was about the early epiphany that same-sex couples love each other, not about the timing of when he decided that same-sex marriage should be legal.
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@mattdizwhitlock
Interesting imagery. The visual metaphor is the effect of McConnell on the institution of the Senate: wanton obliteration of comity, norms, and fidelity to the Constitution.
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It’s absurd that the largest counties in Utah, except Salt Lake County, are governed by three-member commissions that combine executive and legislative powers. That means that just two people can have unchecked power over taxes & regs for hundreds of thousands of county citizens.
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Notice that Mike Lee has been engaging in a political pressure campaign against the Church by attacking its media outlets (Deseret and KSL) and its flagship university BYU to paint them as liberal.
#utpol
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I’m especially disappointed in
@RepJohnCurtis
and
@RepBlakeMoore
for their votes, since they had voted originally in support of the committee. To subvert its subpoena authority, for a clearly justified and lawful subpoena, is awful judgment; and for what purpose?
Utah’s reps in Congress all voted against Congress’s authority to enforce its subpoena against Steve Bannon. Their votes were not in the interests of Congress nor the nation but were to shield Jan 6th lawbreakers from accountability bc of partisanship. Shameful.
#utpol
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@SenMikeLee
@BasedMikeLee
Whatever the reasons for the suspension may be, to this constituent at least, I will not miss the undignified and divisive approach that you took with that account. Please consider the harm you do to your own cause by trying to perform as “based.”
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Our senator would restore a sexual predator and anti-constitutionalist to the most powerful position in the country for the sake of cheaper gas. And he would excuse it by pretending the only downside is “mean tweets.”
Republicans should reject this argument wholeheartedly.
Mike Lee says "he'd take a few mean tweets" from Trump "any day" in order to "have $2 gas again"
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@SpencerJCox
I don’t believe in either case that the political philosophy of those who control the governments in these places is wholly to blame, or that the woes experienced there can be generalized as the predictable outcome for that philosophy anywhere. I find that to be shallow thinking.
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@maggieNYT
So hard to speak truth to power when you rely on those in power to fuel your stories and captivate your audience
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@SenMikeLee
"The House shall have the sole Power of Impeachment." Article I, Section 2. The House did properly impeach according to its sole power.
"The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." Article I, Section 3. It was constitutional to try this one.
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@SenMikeLee
If you truly believed this, then you would not have supported blocking the Garland nomination, nor would you have participated in rushing through the Barrett nomination just days before the election.
It’s all political to you, and you ought to be honest enough to admit it.
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@jstinson22
@litdeluna
@PlzSaNo2FoxNews
@SoCal4Trump
@BenSasse
That’s fine; I value your freedom of speech and association, and you’re free to reject my views. I don’t need to silence my critics for ego.
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Hey
@UtahRedistrict
, a favor to ask you: will you please run the maps released last night by the legislative committee through your nonpartisan scoring criteria and post those results here, for the benefit of those of us who would like to see the comparison? 🙏
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I would like to know why
@RepJohnCurtis
was not in the chamber at this time. Rep. Curtis, will you please share why you weren’t present for this?
Dick and Liz Cheney the lone two Republicans in the House chamber as Pelosi opens up the floor for a moment of silence on Jan. 6, per
@AnnieGrayerCNN
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Like most other Utahns, I'm very happy for all the snow we've gotten this winter and the way it will help reduce the ongoing drought and slow the drying of the Great Salt Lake.
But I do wonder at what point we need to start talking about springtime flooding precautions.
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@JonahDispatch
Some people made wild allegations about him that were unfair. But the main allegations by Blasey Ford were serious and fairly conveyed. She testified under oath and her testimony was credible and not overwrought. He was a contrast in calibrated outrage and peevish deflection.
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Burgess Owens had multiple opportunities over the past weeks to voice concerns about the debate or to publicly decline to participate. Waiting to make his excuse the day of the debate was not consistent with good-faith dealing or respect for his opponents or constituents.
#utpol
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Utah friends:
Please contact your representatives in the Utah legislature and tell them you want Prop 4 (independent redistricting commission) to be preserved, so that our future elections can be fair.
Call, text, email. Do it ASAP so they get the message.
Please RT.
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@mtracey
The sitting President inciting an attack on Congress in defiance of their ceremonial counting of the votes for his successor is what is absolute authoritarian lunacy.
That he now is being held accountable to prevent further violence should be welcomed.
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If Utah allocated its electoral votes proportionally according to the popular vote in the state, we would see more candidates coming to Utah to try to capture as many votes as they can. Winner-take-all makes us an afterthought.
Also, an electoral system in a country of 330 million people that gives 100k people in any state that outsized amount of time/money/attention and especially influence is seriously messed up. Why do we all just accept this?
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@gopTODD
@adonsports
Your partisan loyalties demand that you blame Biden despite all evidence and reason. It’s just unthinking reflex, isn’t it? When the actual blame falls on the person with full agency over the infliction of this war, Putin, you ignore that in order to throw partisan jabs.
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It's very shortsighted to leave vital agencies underfunded and public servants—educators, judges, social workers, defense attorneys, public health workers, inspectors, election workers, and so on—underpaid while a surplus exists.
Underinvesting in our systems makes things worse.
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@UtahAG
Astonishing coincidence that only the states that were the tipping point for Biden are the ones being sued. It’s almost like this is a partisan exercise that an AG who truly represented all the citizens of Utah would have nothing to do with.
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Winter solstice sunrise at the Sun Tunnels art installation (Nancy Holt, artist) west of the Great Salt Lake.
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@SenMikeLee
Senator, you were using the false equivalence provided by Fox News to argue that a mulligan should be given to “everyone,” including Trump.
If you don’t want us to believe so, state specifically that Trump should not get a mulligan here, and vote to convict.
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Letting a couple of schools decide for the entire state which books may be available to students at school is going to concentrate immense censorship power in the hands of a few people whom most citizens won’t know and cannot vote out.
EXCLUSIVE: Utah lawmakers are considering further changes to the sensitive materials law outlining when a book can be removed from school libraries. According to a draft proposal, if two or more districts pull the same book it must be banned statewide.
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@SenMikeLee
We don't know that the president tested negative, because he refuses to allow his people to disclose when his last negative test was. Why would he want to cover that up?
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@JohnCornyn
Sir, I am neither a Democrat nor a leftist. I am a former Republican and longtime centrist, who along with many other fellow Americans regardless of political leaning, strongly supports holding accountable the departing regime for its crimes. It’s not partisan, but justice.
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@GovCox
I have a few non-rhetorical questions I’d appreciate your answering. What will this cost Utah taxpayers, what indicators of success are you using, and what specific direct effects on Utah do you believe this action will have?
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@tedlieu
@HC_Richardson
@TheJusticeDept
The fact that Barr lied about Berman "stepping down" is evidence of consciousness of guilt. This was undoubtedly an attempt to obstruct justice.
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@electbradwilson
Your record in the legislature has been of suppressing representation of those who aren’t in the majority party; of allowing unconstitutional bills to be passed; and of undermining our state’s checks and balances.
You should not hold public office.
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One of the more toxic mantras in US partisan politics is the saying that “the top priority of [my party] is to elect more [candidates from my party].”
No. The top priority of any political party, and any politician, ought to be the welfare of the country and its people.
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@LizRNC
1. House flips don’t reflect statewide voting patterns, so it’s an invalid comparison
2. Donald Trump is unpopular and many Republicans were willing to vote against him and yet vote down ballot for other Rs
3. You already know this but are trying to deceive.
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@mattdizwhitlock
@aronro
Dems should not be trying to include stuff unrelated to addressing the crisis. Republicans should not be trying to include stuff unrelated to addressing the crisis. Both parties should be making sure relief is directed where most needed, not enriching wealthy, and no slush funds.
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@GovCox
Imagine your statement being about smoking indoors, and see if it makes sense to assert that the government should not be able to require businesses to protect their employees’ health. Governor Cox, I hope you can see it’s common sense when you remove the political angle.
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Utah County friends, I’m pleased to announce my candidacy for the Utah County commissioner seat in 2024, as a United Utah Party candidate!
#utpol
(This website messed up my thread; here is the continuation of my announcement.)
I’m bringing a moderate, pragmatic, problem-solving mindset to this race, plus independence from the expectations and demands of the major party apparatus. I’m running as a
@UnitedUtahParty
candidate: we engage in healthy political action, not silly-season posturing.
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Preliminary results have me at about 20% to my opponent’s 80%. I just called him to congratulate him and he was gracious and complimentary.
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We need a constitutional amendment that overrides today’s Supreme Court fiasco and states unequivocally that the President is not immune from criminal prosecution for official acts.
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Most members of Congress are wealthy enough to shrug off a missed paycheck.
Want to ensure a budget gets passed?
Prohibit members from campaigning until it happens. No fundraising, no advertising, no hiring, if Congress cannot pass a budget.
No work, no pay makes sense, right? I've reintroduced my bill to prohibit Members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown and ensure they receive no back pay.
Music by:
License code: RGXXYV5NPJYV6TMP
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5. Total disrespect for majority of Utahns who wanted independently drawn maps
6. False premise that rural Utah feeds and fuels urban, so deserves preeminence
7. Throws away enormous good-faith efforts of independent commissioner and taxpayer dollars, for partisanship
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@Popehat
I know we’re in uncharted waters here, but could this be forestalled somehow by the DOJ announcing its intent to bring charges of conspiracy against rights, against anyone who sues under such laws? Turn the tables by making it risky to be a plaintiff.
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@maggieNYT
We only have evidence that he cares about perceptions of his performance, not his actual performance nor the effects thereof
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Every sponsor of this bill should be voted out of office and never again be in a position of power.
This is pure bigotry.
Republicans introduce bill to expel Palestinians from the United States
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This bad bill is the rotten fruit of the lies circulating among the right wing to explain away why Trump lost in 2020. Our mail-in ballots have not been a problem, there’s no need for this change, and it will increase the barriers to voting without any compensating benefit.
Here is Rep. Kera Birkeland’s bill that would end universal mail in voting in Utah. The data has been clear that mail-in voting has significantly increased voter participation.
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@GovCox
@POTUS
Governor, the states should have latitude when it comes to many policy questions. However, when it comes down to who is a member of a protected class, in the context of guaranteeing equal rights and protecting against non-discrimination, should that differ from state to state?
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No senator who votes to limit press access on grounds of how they are covered in the press is a friend to the Constitution.
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@BasedMikeLee
Tucker is not a reporter and his cherry-picking of video footage and false framing of it is not reporting. It is propaganda, which he and you do not privately believe yourselves but which you feed to your followers in order to cultivate anger and mistrust.
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Utah friends, we will see a new proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall. I recommend voting AGAINST.
It loosens some restrictions on what the legislature can do when it calls itself into session. This expands a power they already shouldn’t have.
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