Situational awareness – June 12, 2020

Good Friday morning from Salt Lake City


  TICK TOCK  

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

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

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

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


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

  • Republicans move part of their convention to Jacksonville
  • The nation’s top general apologizes for participating in President Trump’s church photo-op.
  • Gov. Gary Herbert says the state will hit the brakes on reopening as cases of coronavirus surge.

FRIDAY TRIVIA

This week’s question comes to us from Rep. Patrice Arent:

Which federal judge served as President of the Utah Senate? He also had a law clerk who is General Counsel to the Legislature and another law clerk who is a current member of the Utah House.

Send your answers via email to [email protected]. We’ll pick a winner randomly from the correct answers.

Good luck!


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