Situational awareness – June 8, 2020

Good Monday morning from Salt Lake City


  TICK TOCK  

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

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

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

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


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

  • Trump’s job approval dropped 7 points in the last week.
  • Sen. Mitt Romney joins a Black Lives Matter march in Washington, D.C.
  • Minneapolis will move to dismantle their police force and replace it with community-led public safety.

TRIVIA WINNER

Wow! Dozens and dozens of our readers knew Sen. Frank Moss was once featured on the front page of the New York Times for posing as a patient in New York City as part of an investigation into Medicaid abuse.

Here’s the picture:

20200605 Trivia

Congratulations to Rep. Patrice Arent who was randomly selected as our winner from the correct submissions. She gets to ask the next trivia question on Friday. 


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