Good Friday morning from Salt Lake City.
TICK TOCK
- 39 days until the last day to register to vote by mail (10/9/2018)
- 46 days until mail-in ballots are sent to voters (10/16/2018)
- 53 days until in-person early voting begins (10/23/2018)
- 60 days until the last day to register to vote in person or by mail (10/30/2018)
- 62 days until in-person early voting ends (11/2/2018)
- 67 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)
- 150 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
- 197 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
- 795 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
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HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
Herbert says he’ll get a medical marijuana bill done
Gov. Gary Herbert says if Prop. 2 passes, lawmakers will change it to make it workable. If it fails, he promises to get a medical marijuana bill through the legislature – http://bit.ly/2PRE0qo
Democrats drop replacement bid
In the face of a likely legal challenge from Republicans, Utah Democrats drop their effort to replace a state Senate candidate on November’s ballot – http://bit.ly/2N1kBVg
What a week!
Utah struggles with medical marijuana. What’s next for Count My Vote? Mia Love campaigns with Mitt Romney. Donald Trump doesn’t understand how Google works. Bob Bernick and Bryan Schott digest the week’s political news for you – http://bit.ly/2oqtbPi
You can also access our week-in-review as a podcast if you prefer – http://bit.ly/2PSPBoT
Herbert heads into the homestretch
Bob Bernick says Gov. Gary Herbert will be a political force during his final two years in office – http://bit.ly/2ospmta
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- President Donald Trump says Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ job is safe until at least the November midterm elections – https://cnn.it/2opxnin
- Democrats will call former White House counsel John Dean to testify during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week – http://bit.ly/2osq6ys
- President Trump canceled scheduled pay raises for federal employees, citing rising federal deficits for the move – https://nyti.ms/2PnvpKP
- Hundreds of immigrant children remain separated from their parents according to a new court filing – https://cnn.it/2opZoGx
- President Trump accused NBC of altering the tape of his interview with Lester Holt where he admitted firing FBI director James Comey because of the Russia investigation. The interview has been available online for more than a year – https://usat.ly/2PnMTXz
- In a Thursday morning post on Twitter, President Trump appeared to admit he tried to fire both special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General Jeff Sessions but was stopped by White House Counsel Don McGahn – https://wapo.st/2PoQbtM
- The FBI arrested a man who threatened to shoot staff at the Boston Globe. The California man echoed President Trump’s rhetoric that the media are the “enemy of the people” in threatening phone calls to the paper – https://wapo.st/2PoidoT
- The Trump administration is planning to end U.S. funding of the United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees – https://wapo.st/2opy635
- A former Homeland Security staffer who resigned after his ties to white nationalist groups became public attended multiple immigration policy meetings at the White House – https://wapo.st/2Pouytn
- The Justice Department is siding with Asian-American students suing Harvard claiming affirmative action policies discriminate against them – https://nyti.ms/2wv6opg
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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