Situational awareness – May 1, 2020

Good Friday morning from Salt Lake City

Welcome to May! 2020 is now more than 1/3 finished.

Take it away, Justin…

20200501 Gonna Be May


  TICK TOCK  

60 days to the 2020 Utah primary elections (6/30/2020)

186 Days to the 2020 election (11/3/2020)

264 days to inauguration day (01/20/2021)

269 days to the start of the 2021 Utah Legislature (1/25/2021)


Here are the stories you need to pay attention to this morning:

  • Biden breaks his silence on Tara Reade.
  • More than 30 million Americans are out of work.
  • Burningham sues to get on the June primary ballot.

FRIDAY TRIVIA

During the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, held from December 15, 1857 to January 22, 1858, Brigham Young acted as the “defacto” Territorial Governor while the legally appointed Territorial Governor spent the time in the vicinity of Fort Bridger, Wyoming.

Who was the legally appointed Territorial Governor? 

Know the answer? Send your response to me via email at [email protected].

We’ll randomly select a winner from the correct answers who will get to ask next week’s trivia question. 

Good luck!


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