Legislature Opening Today--Dramatic News, Horrendous $53 Million Coal Port Alive Again

Kimmel: Government Shutdown and Funding CHIP Watch here

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Bill Maher: Author Michael Wolff on Trump’s Current Affair (Ribald) Watch here

Trevor Noah: On ‘The Despicable’ White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller Watch here

Utah is Ready to Spend $53 Million Public Dollars to Build a Private Developer’s Coal Port in Oakland! I Thought We Killed This – But NO! It’s Back!

Utah has billions of tons of coal. Much of it in areas like the Grand Escalante (the reason Chris Stewart and Mia Love cut the National Monument in half is to get at the coal) and in the magnificent, untouched Book Cliffs. In 2016, on the last day of the session, the Utah Legislature committed $53 million dollars to subsidize a risky coal export scheme cooked up between investment banker and former Utah Department of Transportation Chair Jeff Holt and private Oakland developer Phil Tagami. Holt’s company was in line for a million dollar commission. (Sadly, the Legislative lawyers told me such a conflict is legal in Utah.) Mr. Holt has subsequently moved out of Utah. Read more

2018 Utah Legislature Opens! Something Dramatically New This Time!

Thanks to you--we have a fighting chance this Session. We, the reasonable people of Utah, are fighting back hard--for the first time in 30 years! There are more than 60,000 of us on Dabakis ACTION ALERT rolls. Hundreds of names in EVERY Senate and House District across Utah (some districts have thousands)! You! Your names! Your phone numbers. Your emails. We have spent a bundle getting it organized. So, as the Legislature attacks us, our values and common sense, you will get a text or email from me with the contact for YOUR Legislators in REAL TIME! As the debate is happening! Even in red Utah, no legislator ignores a message that starts ‘AS A CONSTITUENT’.

I need two things from you 1) Make sure I have your full contact info including phone so I can text you--to check on what contact info I have on you go to SenatorDabakis.com and fill out the form. 2) When the ALERT comes--please respond. Barrage YOUR legislator with constituent voices they have never heard! READY? I am fired-up! Do you have my back?  

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The Only Mormon in Congress With the Guts to Speak the Truth About ‘Lying Trump’ is From Arizona, not Utah

Thanks Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) for putting country above Trump. Watch Flake’s speech. Read more

NY Times: Why are Utah Electeds Rallying Around Congressman Stewart’s Bill to Eviscerate Our Public Monuments?

“Members of Utah’s congressional caucus, not content with eviscerating two national monuments in the state, have unleashed a new assault on public lands, proposing legislation that hides an agenda of deregulation behind the shield of the National Park Service and the beloved park system it oversees.” Read the Op-Ed here

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