SENATOR VAN TASSELL ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION TO UTAH SENATE
SALT LAKE CITY - Senator Kevin Van Tassell announced that he will not be seeking re-election at the end of his current term.
“It has been my honor to serve as the Senator for District 26,” said Senator Van Tassell. “I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to associate with so many wonderful people and work on different projects and see the Government work on a State Level. I have decided to not seek reelection and retire from the Senate at the end of my term in 2018. There are still a couple of items I want to do in my life. My wife Janice, family and friends have been a great support. Without them, I would not of been able to succeed. I hope you all have a great New Year in 2018. The State's future is in good hands and I have every confidence the leaders of this state will build upon our current success.”
Senator Van Tassell has served in the Legislature since 2006 representing Daggett, Uintah, and Duchesne Counties and parts of Wasatch and Summit Counties. He will continue to represent Utah Senate District 26 through 2018.
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December 29, 2017
Judicial Watch Statement on State Department Release of Huma Abedin’s Government Documents on Weiner’s Laptop
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s pending 3:00 pm (Eastern) release by the U.S. Department of State of Huma Abedin’s work-related documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that were found on her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop.
This is a major victory. After years of hard work in federal court, Judicial Watch has forced the State Department to finally allow Americans to see these public documents. It will be in keeping with our past experience that Abedin’s emails on Weiner’s laptop will include classified and other sensitive materials. That these government docs were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop dramatically illustrates the need for the Justice Department to finally do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.
In accordance with a court ordered production of documents, a State Department court filing states: “The State Department “identified approximately 2,800 work-related documents among the documents provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The State Department told the court it expected to complete its review and production of the FBI records by December 31, 2017.
The documents were produced in a May 5, 2015, lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). Judicial Watch sued after the State Department failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
Abedin was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. Weiner is a disgraced former congressman and New York mayoral candidate who pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. Abedin kept a non-State.gov email account that she used repeatedly for government business on Hillary Clinton’s notorious email server(s).
Judicial Watch previously released 20 productions of documents in this case that show examples of mishandling of classified information and instances of pay to play between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation. Also, at least 627 emails were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradict a statement by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails had been turned over to department.
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