West Valley, Utah (CNN)Mitt Romney did not win the Utah Republican Party's nomination on Saturday, meaning he must compete in a June primary election as he seeks to replace retiring US Sen. Orrin Hatch.
After a wild and raucous day of voting at the Utah GOP convention, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee was unable to win the 60% that he needed to head to the November ballot unopposed. When none of the 12 candidates were able to cross that threshold, the party continued with successive rounds of caucus voting until one candidate reached 40%. On the second round of voting, Utah state representative Mike Kennedy emerged in the lead with 50.88%. Romney came in a close second with 49.12%. Romney and Kennedy will now compete in a primary set for June 26.
#1: Tooconservative To: A K A Stone (#0)
Maybe he can face off against Evan McMullen. Apparently, that dirtbag still didn't pay the (minimal) salaries of his top staff while McMullen and his campaign manager squandered most of the money they raised on frivolous things. I just read an article about it at AoS the other day. The Persian/American billionaire (eBay founding manager) who funded their challenge to Trump was their main donor.
AoS: Former Staffer Complains That Egg McMuffin Hasn't Paid Many Staffers and Never Plans to Do So
And McMullen continues to try to stiff the FEC on required election funds reports.
AoS: Egg McMuffin Getting Letters from the FEC Telling Him He's in Violation of Law
Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-22 00:57:08 Reply Private Reply
#2: sneakypete To: A K A Stone (#0)
Anyone else see the problem with Mittens running for President as a conservative Republican?
I DO enjoy seeing that he came in second behind a guy named Kennedy,though. Must have seemed like Old Home Week for Mittens.
sneakypete posted on 2018-04-22 04:17:12 Reply Private Reply