Governor of Utah (R)
3 stories from The GOP Files, newest first. Last in the news Nov 9.
Quotes from our stories, each matched word for word against its source before it ran.
“Definitely, the national political environment played an enormous role in the outcomes here in Utah”
“I take some of the blame for this”
Utah's Republican governor says his party lost more than a dozen legislative seats partly because lawmakers overrode a voter-approved ban on gerrymandering. He also says he takes some of the blame. That reasoning matters wherever lawmakers have rewritten laws that voters passed themselves.
The federal commodities regulator has gone to court against a state that bans all gambling. The fight will decide who polices betting sites that let people wager on elections.
The agriculture secretary says the administration will keep pushing a plan to move Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, even though a federal judge halted it on Oct. 13. The plan could affect wildfire response and thousands of federal workers.
