Gov. Herbert may veto bill to derail Count My Vote. Herbert also hits House GOP leadership over Medicaid expansion. Google Fiber may be coming to Salt Lake City.
Countdown:
- 21 days until the final day of the 2014 Legislature
- 22 days until the Utah candidate filing period opens
- 26 days until the Utah Democratic Party caucus meetings
- 26 days until the Utah candidate filing period closes
- 28 days until the Utah GOP caucus meetings
- 65 days until the Utah State Republican and Democratic conventions
- 124 days until Utah’s 2014 primary elections
- 257 days to the 2014 midterm elections
- 620 days to the 2015 elections
- 685 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses
- 991 days to the 2016 presidential election
Today’s Utah political news highlights:
- Gov. Gary Herbert is warning he may veto Sen. Curt Bramble’s bill to head off Count My Vote [Deseret News, Tribune].
- The timing of that bill moving through the legislature could set up a showdown between Herbert and lawmakers [Utah Policy].
- Herbert says the stance by Republican leadership in the House against Medicaid expansion is “illogical” [Deseret News, Tribune].
- House Speaker Becky Lockhart’s plan to pump millions into technology in schools is meeting skepticism in the Senate and governor’s office [Tribune].
- Rep. Stephen Handy introduces a bill laying out the framework for how Utah would manage public lands if they ever won control of them from the federal government [Utah Policy].
- Google’s ultra high-speed fiber optic internet service may be coming to Salt Lake City [Deseret News].
- Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams wants to freeze the boundaries of unincorporated areas of the county until 2015 [Tribune].
- The Salt Lake School District looks to hire some PR help in the wake of bad press in the school-lunch tossing incident [Tribune].
- Sen. Mike Lee visits Utah’s Capitol Hill to discuss issues with lawmakers [Standard-Examiner, Deseret News, Tribune].
- Rep. Kay Christofferson wants to privatize four golf courses owned by the state [Deseret News, Tribune].
- Lawmakers advance a measure to bring more accountability and transparency for USTAR [Tribune].
- A proposal would push back Utah’s guest worker program until 2017 [Daily Herald, Tribune].
On this day in history:
- President George Washington signed an act creating the Post Office in 1792.
- The Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in 1809.
- Abolitionist Frederick Douglass died in 1895.
- Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.