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SALT LAKE CITY A former state lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully against now Sen. Mitt Romney in the 2018 GOP U.S. Senate primary is returning to the Utah Legislature this time as a state senator.
Republican Mike Kennedy won the Utah County Republican Party s special election Tuesday night to fill the vacant seat left behind by Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, who resigned to serve as Gov.-elect Spencer Cox s director of the Governor s Office of Economic Development.
Kennedy previously served in the Utah House when he was first elected in 2012 to fill a seat left vacant by John Dougall when he resigned to run for state auditor. He won re-election twice, but announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 in order to run for U.S. Senate. He lost to Romney in the GOP primary. ....

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