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Host: Heidi Hatch
Guests:
- Greg Hughes
- Maura Carabello
Special Session
Bail Reform: Bi-partisan roundtable deal
- Greg Hughes worked as a lobbyist on the issue
Utah Redistricting
- Legislators pass new maps with veto proof majority.
- Cogressiona map splits Salt Lake County into 4 districts.
- Utah’s 4th Congressional District R +31
- Governor said he will not VETO, admitted this is gerrymandering in live town hall.
Legislature passes bill allowing exemptions to Biden vaccine mandate
- The bill passed on party lines
- Exemptions are the same as available in Utah schools
- Religious, Medical, Personal
- Some exemptions remain for Federal workers, small businesses
- Will there be repercussions for ignoring the will of the people in creating the independent redistricting commission?
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Dixie State Name Change to Utah Poly Tech- Name changes officially in July 2022.
- The campus will still be called Dixie for 20 years.
- Senate Voted 17-12
Abby Huntsman Podcast: interviews her father former Governor Jon Huntsman
- Huntsman does not shut the door on a possible run in the future
- Says there is no one trying to find middle ground in Congress
- Called the 2020 gubernatorial primary in Utah a “ridiculous election”