Utah bans flags

https://www.ksl.com/article/51284267/utah-is-first-state-to-ban-fluoride-in-water-restrict-flags-on-public-buildings

Interesting what the governor called out; 

"Finally, as tired as Utahns are of politically divisive symbols, I think they are also tired of culture war bills that don't solve the problems they intend to fix"

Republican values

A Republican Utah Judge.

Christensen is a judge in Utah's 1st District Justice Court and was arrested and booked into the Davis County Jail on Thursday.

This article pins him as a potential Mormon elder .... FloodLIT

He was honored in 2023 for integrity, character, dedication

How many Utah knew about this?

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorney-general/

You would think they did some background research before engaging into this contract.

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Damien Patton, who helped launch and now leads the secretive startup Banjo, was part of the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as a 17-year-old and joined a leader of the group in a drive-by shooting of a synagogue in a Nashville suburb, according to a report by the online outlet OneZero, citing transcripts of courtroom testimony, sworn statements and more than 1,000 pages of records produced from a federal hate crime prosecution.

Utah officials in 2018 had awarded Patton’s company a sole-source, $750,000 contract to provide massive real-time surveillance of 911 calls, social media and traffic cameras. The company has also signed a $20.7 million contract with the state.

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