Elizabeth Weight
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@RepEWeight
6th gen Utahn, USU Aggie with MA from the UofU. Public school teacher for 32 years. Love and respect Utah's people & vast, natural lands.
A week after a powerful state authority chaired by Utah Senate President Stuart Adams approved a 40,000-acre data center project, five donors with business before the same authority dropped $135,000 into his PAC. All on the same day. #utpol utahpolitics.news/stuart-adams-p… #utpol
CBO says the Senate Republicans' new reconciliation bill will increase deficits by $71.7B over the next 10 years. That's what the bill costs, so that makes sense. cbo.gov/system/files/2…
Days after a crowd showed up in Brigham City to decry a potential vote that would allow the development to proceed, the Utah Division of Water Rights received a deluge of written protests about the project sltrib.com/news/environme…
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
Donald Trump has fired the entire National Science Board, all 24 members, all at once. The board was responsible for deciding which scientific projects America should pursue and helping to direct the nation's technological future.
