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Situational awareness - August 27, 2018
Good Monday morning from Salt Lake City.
Count My Vote fails. Medical marijuana debated online. Sen. John McCain passes.
TICK TOCK
- 43 days until the last day to register to vote by mail (10/9/2018)
- 50 days until mail-in ballots are sent to voters (10/16/2018)
- 57 days until in-person early voting begins (10/23/2018)
- 64 days until the last day to register to vote in person or by mail (10/30/2018)
- 66 days until in-person early voting ends (11/2/2018)
- 71 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)
- 154 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
- 199 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
- 799 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
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HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
CMV falls short
The Utah Supreme Court denied Count My Vote's appeal for inclusion on November's ballot late last week - http://bit.ly/2Lpkb64
Medical Marijuana social media debate
Former Utah Sen. Steve Urquhart and Marty Stephens, the lobbyist for the LDS Chuch, had a lengthy exchange on Facebook over the weekend about the Church's opposition to the medical cannabis ballot initiative - http://bit.ly/2PbMac1
Initiative changes
Will the Utah Legislature make wholesale changes to any of the proposed ballot initiatives if they're approved by voters in November? - http://bit.ly/2NmieJB
Redistricting impact
Our "Political Insiders" are split along party lines on what kind of impact the "Better Boundaries" ballot initiative will have if it passes - http://bit.ly/2PaZvRx
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
Deseret News
Pignanelli and Webb: Will 'blue wave' roll over Utah?
Op-ed: Is free enterprise worth the risks?
Op-ed: Utah needs medical cannabis, but Proposition 2 isn't the way
Editorial: Straight-talking naval captain John McCain put service over self
Stars, pizza snacks, video games: Hatch throws it all at Dems trying to block Supreme Court nominee
New agreement will foster export of Utah's coal, natural gas
Utah Supreme Court denies Count My Vote initiative spot on November ballot
Utah has a 'housing crisis' in a lack of affordable homes
Utah candidates must 'walk fine line' given legal drama surrounding Trump
Mia Love campaign commercial touts her role in freeing Josh Holt
'The very pinnacle of American virtue': Utahns react to John McCain's death at 81
Utah County wants $22M tax hike on ballot with UTA caveat
Salt Lake Tribune
Op-ed: Utah's medical marijuana vote is no threat to religious liberty
Here are 3 things Salt Lake Valley schools are doing this year to improve safety
'A lifetime of selfless service': Utahns mourn the loss of Sen. John McCain
Other
Editorial: UTA should approve Utah County's November tax question (Daily Herald)
With U.S. Interior official coming, boosters to promote BLM relocation to Ogden (Standard-Examiner)
Cache town hall meeting: Water huge issue in dry, fast growing state (Logan Herald Journal)
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- Sen. John McCain will lie in state in Arizona and then the U.S. Capitol building prior to his memorial service on Saturday - https://cnn.it/2Njt17d
- President Trump, who frequently clashed with McCain, nixed a planned statement about McCain's passing that praised his life and heroism. Instead, Trump posted a short Tweet online - https://wapo.st/2NpiE1I
- McCain asked former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush to eulogize him during his funeral. He made it known that he did not want President Donald Trump to attend his memorial service - https://cnn.it/2Nl3oD2
- Three people were killed and nine others wounded, including the gunman, during a mass shooting at a video game tournament in Florida on Sunday - https://cnn.it/2Niub2S
- Michael Cohen's attorney is backing down from his previous assertions that Cohen has information showing President Trump knew of Russian efforts to undermine Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election - https://wapo.st/2PaZQUu
- Republicans in Congress are circulating a document of the investigations into the Trump administration Democrats will launch if they win control of one or both houses following the 2018 midterms - http://bit.ly/2NkkS2A
- Longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone predicts Donald Trump, Jr. will be indicted for lying to the FBI - http://bit.ly/2NkRqJH
- The U.S. and Mexico are closing in on a deal to revamp NAFTA - https://reut.rs/2NsJwOg
- Despite a week full of damaging news, President Trump's approval rating remained remarkably stable - https://nbcnews.to/2P9iaNO
- President Trump hosted one of the leading proponents of the QAnon conspiracy theory at the White House - https://thebea.st/2Pb079Y
- U.S. tech companies say it may be too late for them to fully prevent foreign influence operations on social media during the 2018 midterms - http://bit.ly/2NpWMDH
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1776 - Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
- 1859 - The first successful oil well in the U.S. was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
- 1883 - The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history destroyed the island of Krakatoa, a small, uninhabited island west of Sumatra in Indonesia.
- 1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
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National Headlines
Democrats adopt gender nonbinary language to charter (CNN)
Poll: Trump approval steady after stormy week (The Hill)
Clinton recalls doing vodka shots with McCain during official trip (New York Post)
Mollie Tibbetts' killing fuels Republican immigration attacks ahead of midterms (CNN)
How Arizona will fill John McCain's seat -- and who might fill it (CNN)
Remembering 1968: Chicago's bloody Democratic Convention (CBS News)
Lewandowski: I warned Trump about Cohen (FOX News)
DNC changes superdelegate rules in presidential nomination process (CNN)
Race is still the central dividing line in the Democratic Party (Vox)
House task force interviews FBI official about Clinton emails, isn't done yet (Washington Examiner)
