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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 01:20 PM Nov 2019

Jon Huntsman launches another run for Utah governor

Source: Politico

Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, one-time presidential candidate and ambassador to China and Russia, announced Thursday he will run for governor again in 2020.

Huntsman, a Republican who most recently served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Russia, made the announcement Thursday morning on KSL Radio.

"We are so very honored and humbled to announce my candidacy for governor of the greatest state in America," Huntsman said, sitting with his wife, former Utah first lady Mary Kay Huntsman, at a hotel in southwestern Utah.

Huntsman served as governor from 2005 to 2009. He was seen as a likely 2012 presidential candidate before resigning to become then-President Barack Obama's ambassador to China.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/14/jon-huntsman-launches-another-run-for-utah-governor-070899

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Jon Huntsman launches another run for Utah governor (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2019 OP
Beating Romney's son to the punch! OhNo-Really Nov 2019 #1
Sorry to say,I told you so. Wellstone ruled Nov 2019 #2

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
1. Beating Romney's son to the punch!
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 01:41 PM
Nov 2019

Yes, the Romney’s built a couple of adjacent mansions in Salt Lake City’s swankiest Private neighborhood just after Mitts 2012 defeat. One has a “Rose Garden-like” walkway.

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=57030430&itype=CMSID

A dynasty move imho

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Sorry to say,I told you so.
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 02:14 PM
Nov 2019

Nothing happens in Utah without a Temple Square approval. Got to keep the Sheeple pacified. Tons of angst within the ranks,defections from the GOP needed addressing.

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