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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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Alliance For A Better Utah Files Complaint Over Campaign Finances
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 complaint alleges ALEC gives its members a free software that operates like a campaign tool, which means it should count as a donation. Senate Chief of Staff Mark Thomas said in a statement the two lawmakers have not used the software in any capacity.
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Why conservatives oppose critical race theory
They struggle to define what it means but consider the theory a serious threat to the country and a setback to race relations
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Betty Sawyer, a supporter of critical race theory, center, exchanges views with a group of women opposed to the theory, after a protest organized by the Utah Educational Equity Coalition outside of the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
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Glenn Beck called it “the knockout punch for America.” Tucker Carlson says it’s a “noxious lie.”
Critical race theory has also been called anti-American propaganda, a cult and a virus that is more dangerous in the long term than COVID-19. It’s hard to find a conservative voice that hasn’t denounced it in the past few weeks, giving the fractured GOP a unifying issue.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Democrats walked off the House floor Wednesday in protest of a resolution recommending that the state review any curriculum that examines the ways in which race and racism influence American politics, culture and the law. Republican lawmakers say they want to ensure that children aren’t being taught that one […]