School choice is an issue at the Utah Legislature. The Senate Education Committee endorsed a bill to extend $8,000 scholarships to qualifying Utah families for private education choices and provide public school teachers $6,000 raise.
KUER File Photo A complaint filed with the state elections office alleges Senate President Stuart Adams, R- Layton, and Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, violated campaign finance laws.
Alliance for a Better Utah is asking the state’s elections office to investigate whether Senate President Stuart Adams, R- Layton, and Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, accepted donations from the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council without reporting them.
The left-leaning watchdog group filed the complaint Monday morning.
ALEC is a non-profit that helps state legislators across the country pass conservative laws. Membership for the group costs lawmakers $100 per year.
It has a service called ALEC Care it gives to its members for free and claims the software is a way to improve lawmakers’ relationships with their constituents.
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Should Senate have convicted Donald Trump? Utahns voice opinion in new poll
Poll shows Sen. Mitt Romney’s, Sen. Mike Lee’s votes in Trump trial has no impact on approval ratings
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Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press
Slightly more than half of Utahns agree with the majority of Senate Republicans who found former President Donald Trump not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows 51% of voters in the state say the Senate should not have convicted Trump, while 43% say he should have been convicted. The remaining 7% were not sure.