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Daily Briefing
Good Wednesday morning and happy getaway day from Salt Lake City. Today is the 326th day of the year. There are 39 days remaining in 2017.
The clock:
41 days until candidates can declare their intent to gather signatures for the 2018 election (1/2/2018)61 days until the opening day of the 2018 Utah Legislature (1/22/2018)106 days until the final day of the 2018 Utah Legislature (3/8/2018)107 days until the filing period for candidates in the 2018 election opens (3/9/2018)113 days until the filing deadline for the 2018 elections (3/15/2018)118 days until the statewide GOP caucus meetings (3/20/2018)150 days until the GOP State Convention (4/21/2018)216 days until the 2018 Primary Election (6/26/2018)349 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)1,077 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
Today's political TL; DR -
POLL: Most Utahns say Alabama Republican
Roy Moore should drop out of the U.S. Senate race because of allegations he sexually harassed teenagers when he was in his 30's [
Utah Policy].
Sen.
Orrin Hatch says he intends to run for another term in 2018, but won't make a final decision until the end of this year or early next [
Utah Policy].
An overwhelming number of Utahns support a possible bid to host the 2026 or 2030 Winter Olympic Games [
Deseret News].
Rep.
Chris Stewart says Congress should release the names of his colleagues who have been accused of sexual misconduct and any settlements made with taxpayer money should be disclosed [
Deseret News].
Utah lawmakers are getting pressure from industry groups to repeal the toughest in the nation DUI law, but they may not be willing to back down on the regulations [
Fox 13].
Rep.
Mia Love says she will put pressure on the Trump White House to allow Haitian nationals to stay in the United States after the administration announced they would end temporary immigration protections for that group [
Deseret News].
The FEC is not willing to back off their campaign finance complaint against former Attorney General
John Swallow [
Deseret News].
Utah graduate students rally against a GOP plan to tax tuition waivers as income [
Tribune].
Animal rights activists crash Gov. Gary Herbert's annual turkey pardoning [
Tribune].
National headlines:
President
Donald Trump is
tweeting again Wednesday morning:
3:25 am (MST) - It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man's version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..
3:33 am (MST) - ...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It's a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!
3:48 am (MST) - The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That's almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....
4:51 am (MST) - Will be having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mar-a-Lago). Stock Market hit new Record High yesterday - $5.5 trillion gain since E. Many companies coming back to the U.S. Military building up and getting very strong.
President
Donald Trump came out in support of embattled Alabama
Roy Moore on Tuesday afternoon, saying he would rather have Moore in the U.S. Senate than a Democrat [
Washington Post].
The race between Moore and Democrat
Doug Jones is a statistical tie according to the newest polling from that state [
The Hill].
A prominent right-wing minister who is a supporter of
Roy Moore says Moore dated teenage girls because of their "purity" and there were no women his age available when he returned from serving in Vietnam [
Talking Points Memo].
A second woman has accused Democratic Rep.
John Conyers of sexual harassment [
BuzzFeed].
Good news for the GOP's tax reform efforts. Alaska Sen.
Lisa Murkowski supports repealing the individual healthcare mandate, which is a big part of the Republican tax plan [
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner].
Realtors are mobilizing against provisions in the GOP tax reform proposal that would eliminate the deduction for local property taxes and cut the mortgage interest deduction [
New York Times].
Jared Kushner's role in the White House has been cut back dramatically because special counsel Robert Muller is probing his contacts with foreign governments. Kushner has also expressed concern that Mueller's probe might "get" President
Donald Trump [
Vanity Fair].
We may never see President
Donald Trump's "big beautiful border wall" come to fruition, but Trump is building an immigration system that reduces the number of foreigners in the United States [
Washington Post].
The FBI is probing whether Pennsylvania Republican Rep.
Robert Brady paid his 2012 opponent $90,000 to drop out of the race [
Philadelphia Inquirer].
The FEC is planning to roll back Obama-era net neutrality rules that would allow internet service providers to slow down access or even block some websites as long as they tell customers. The agency also wants to prevent local and state governments from creating their own laws to regulate the internet [
Politico].
Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep a data breach that affected 57 million customers a secret [
Recode].
Military personnel at the White House have been reassigned following allegations they had improper contact with foreign women during President Trump's trip to Asia [
Washington Post].
Pixar chief
John Lasseter is taking a leave of absence from the company after alleged sexual misconduct [
The Hollywood Reporter].
On this day in history:
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, pirate Edward Teach (better known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle.
1858 - The city of Denver was founded.
1954 - The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the nation's 36th president.
1968 - The Beatles release the White Album.
Today At Utah Policy
| Hatch says he intends to run for another term
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
Sen. Orin Hatch said Tuesday that he intends on running for another term in 2018, but he won't make a final decision until the end of 2017 or early 2018.... |
| Weekly survey: Should Sen. Al Franken resign?
By Bryan Schott, Managing Editor
At least two women have accused Democratic Sen. Al Franken of groping them without their consent. Should he resign from the U.S. Senate? Vote now in our weekly survey.... |
Policy News
Local Headlines
Salt Lake Tribune
New owners of Deer Valley Ski Resort miss deadline, get a lesson in Utah's quirky liquor laws
Animal-rights group files complaint against University of Utah over lab animal deaths
Worried about moves to tax tuition waivers, Utah graduate students rally against GOP tax plans
Feds, locals worry annual Moab event creates 'circus atmosphere' in scenic Utah land
A record number of proposed bills in the Utah Legislature has lawmakers rethinking their own rules
Animal activists crash Utah governor's turkey pardoning party
Utah is home to 35 new U.S. Citizens today
Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox among 45 Utahns who delivered hope, food and power to Puerto Ricans
Deseret News
Op-ed: The bigger picture about Sen. Hatch and appointing federal judges
Derek B. Miller: Lessons of Thanksgiving from the Kingdom of Jordan
FEC opposes dismissing civil case against ex Utah A.G. John Swallow
Utah Rep. Mia Love vows 'full-court press' on Trump to let Haitian nationals stay in U.S.
Laurene Powell Jobs' advocacy group urges Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to pass Dream Act
New poll: 89 percent of Utahns support bidding for another Salt Lake Olympics
Utah Rep. Chris Stewart calls for Congress to release sexual harassment settlements
National Headlines
Charlie Rose fired by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg over sexual misconduct allegations (NBC News)
Pelosi calls for ethics investigation into alleged Conyers sexual harassment (Washington Post)
Senate Releases Tax Bill Text in 'Unusually Fast' March to Vote (Bloomberg)
Tech Rally Goes Global, Powering Major Stock Indexes to Fresh Records (Wall Street Journal)
Congress barreling toward explosive immigration fight (The Hill)
Document Fight Slows Inquiry of Affirmative Action at Harvard (New York Times)
Border Patrol agent's death renews Trump's call for wall along Mexico (Dallas Morning News)
FBI investigating Democratic rep over payments to primary challenger (Associated Press)
Nebraska State Regulators Approve Keystone XL Pipeline, Or Did They? (Forbes)
Hacker targets Sacramento Regional Transit, deletes 30 million files in ransomware attack (FOX News)
Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People (Bloomberg)
Reputation
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." Benjamin Franklin
Auction
"A piece of wedding cake from Donald and Melania Trump's wedding is currently up for auction. The 12-year-old piece of cake is being marketed as a rare collector's item. I can't believe it lasted this long. Not the cake, the marriage." James Corden
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