The next red state to turn purple: Utah

[mystery-ak]

The next red state to turn purple: Utah
by Daniel Allott
 | April 17, 2019 08:00 AM



SALT LAKE CITY — Last summer, tiny microbes reacting to changing levels of salinity in Great Salt Lake turned the water half red and half blue. It created a stunning visual image — and an apt metaphor for the political changes that are starting to happen in Utah.

If you’ve never been to Salt Lake City, you might assume that it’s a rather conservative, buttoned-up place. It was founded in 1847 by pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group.

But Salt Lake City is diverse and progressive. In the past eight years, it's been ranked as the third-most hipster city in the world, the queerest city in America, and the fourth-best city for millennials to live in. Millennials make up nearly half of the city’s mortgages, compared to the national average of 9%. Nearly 1 in 4 city residents is Hispanic. In some neighborhoods, two-thirds of school children speak Spanish at home.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Romney is a harbinger of this.  He was elected promising to be a part of the Rat "resistance," and he's been performing to that standard ever since.

[TomSea]

This doesn't surprise me from what I've read though, it is shocking that it would happen in Salt Lake City.

I know, they have sought to make a welcoming business climate in Utah. Maybe that is part of it.

[truth_seeker]

The incorporated "Salt Lake City," is a small part of the overall population of "the Salt Lake Valley."


Areas in Utah outside "SLC" are among the very most conservative votin, in the country.

[rustynail]

Mitt's work here is done.

[TomSea]

This is about gold:

COMMENTARY — Utah case exposes more dirt on Turkey’s Erdoğan

By Abdullah Bozkurt

Another fraud scheme that extends to the United States has implicated the corrupt Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in what is seen as a potentially devastating blow to the entrenched political machinery set up and sustained by the autocratic Islamist leader who governs a nation of 80 million with an iron grip. The revelations place Erdoğan in the midst of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe with connections to an international organized crime network.

ErdoÄŸan was already identified in an Iran sanction-busting scheme in a federal case that wrapped up in New York earlier this year with the conviction of senior Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who had worked for Turkish state lender Halkbank. Now, a federal grand jury in Utah returned a sealed indictment on Aug. 1, 2018, naming ErdoÄŸan as the leader of a foreign country who met with highly controversial businesspeople in California and Utah in what was claimed to be a major money laundering and tax fraud case.

Read more at: https://stockholmcf.org/commentary-utah-case-exposes-more-dirt-on-turkeys-erdogan/

What happened is Utah loosened their business laws but in the meantime, I believe one could say it benefits some shady types of organizations.

He's only been a Utah Senator since January. We'll have to see how he votes. I have paid attention some, he's not always against the President per voting record though appears to be so on key issues like funding the wall.

He also was with the president in the lifting of sanctions against some Russian interests.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Mitt's work here is done.

Ah, but, like the protege that McCain nurtured, mitt basks in the spotlight.  There are still plenty of camera lenses he needs to pontificate in front of to prove he is a magnificent person in the halls of the Senate.

Imagine the numbers of mirrors that exist in his bathrooms wherein he can admire his face fully.