You may remember her from last week: Mia is the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and is now running for the new district created for Utah as a result of the last census. We had the opportunity to talk about the details of the district, plus her thoughts about the best way to represent it:
Mia’s site is here.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Mia Love is the current Republican mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah: she kicked off her bid today to be the Republican candidate for Utah’s new Fourth Congressional district. Mia’s running on basic small-government principles, focusing on government being often the problem, and not the solution, to our problems. She’s got a fairly crowded primary to deal with, and will be facing a transplanted Jim Matheson (who got redistricted out of his seat) if she wins the primary, but it’s Utah and Mia’s a pretty straightforward conservative Republican across the board. Public defender of the Tea Party, too, and her campaign is definitely interested in grassroots outreach.
Her kickoff video is after the fold: (more…)
Senator Lee is, of course, an old friend of RedState, and happy to check in with us.
Annoyingly, the interview was almost interrupted by the presence of the Rent is Too D*mn High guy. What said RiTDH guy was doing at CPAC remains a mystery: as I recall, the fellow is not precisely conservative.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Morgan is running in Utah’s Second District, which is known primarily for being the only district in Utah whose Democratic incumbent has managed to avoid suffering from his national party’s reputation. Morgan would dearly enjoy correcting that, and he spoke with RedState today:
Morgan’s site is here.
Crossposted to RedState.
Kaine was in such a rush to get things going on that he forgot to check the press release:
“If there was any question before, there should now be no doubt that the Republican leadership has handed the reigns to the Tea Party.”
(Head’s-up from @AlexPappasDC.)
It was precisely this keen attention to detail and level of preparation on the DNC’s part that caused such dramatic results in NJ and VA last year, and promises to do the same in HI-01 and PA-12 later this month.
Moe Lane
*I had a number of more bad puns here originally, until I realized that I was indulging in ad homonym attacks…
Crossposted to RedState.
He was eliminated from the second round of voting.
Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah has lost his bid to serve a fourth term after failing to advance past the GOP state convention.
Attorney Mike Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater are the remaining Republican candidates after Saturday’s vote.
Bennett was a distant third in the voting among roughly 3,500 delegates. He garnered just under 27 percent of the vote. Bridgewater had 37 percent and Lee 35 percent.
A primary looks likely, unless either Lee or Bridgewater gets almost all of Bennett’s delegates. (more…)
This CPAC interview with Rep. Rob Bishop (R, UT-01) seemed relevant, given the post that I did earlier on the White House gutting 23K space-reliant jobs in a politically-unreliable Democrat’s Congressional District:
Rep. Bishop is active in space issues, and in fact went into greater detail recently about why said gutting is ill-advised. The op-ed is well worth reading, if probably not making an argument that’s unfamiliar to my likely readers…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
“A thing is going to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong.”
- JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers
It would appear that elements of the current ruling faction of the American political system have noticed that, hold on, wait, they don’t actually have all that much in common:
Video Courtesy of KSL.com
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