Fmr Dem candidate & State Dept, 7yrs in Iraq & Afghanistan. Author, Mirror Test. Teach @ Marine Corps U. Proud Utah Democrat โ standing alongside many others.
There is more shared work to do on behalf of all of our Utah neighbors, particularly those who get up early, get home late, then do it all over again.
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Let's all help get other Democrats elected this year.ย And let's all help defeat Mike Lee -- the sooner the better.
I respect their decision and will continue to work hard in the months and years ahead to help bring political balance in our fast-growing and diversifying state. Thank you to
#TeamWeston
and all of our supporters. There will be more elections.
Collaborator Stewart should never hold public office again.
Whichever Utahn challenges Stewart if he runs again โ for any office โ will have my full support.
Democratic accountability, and the truth, matters more than ever now.
Yes, Iโm seriously considering seeking the Democratic nomination in the upcoming special election in Utahโs 2nd Congressional Districtย ย โ a big & beautiful, urban & rural, district that I know well & have deep family roots in across generations.
#utpol
As these text messages show,
#MikeLee
acted as Trump's lawyer after the 2020 election, not a U.S. Senator putting country ahead of party.
#utpol
#Elections2022
Thank you, Jon. To be clear, I served 7 years in 2 wars as a rep of the State Dept, working w Marine generals, local governments, the Taliban to rebuild Iraq & Afghanistan. Wrote a book about it โ The Mirror Test. Honored by your support.
#CountryOverParty
#UT02
#FlipTheDistrict
Democrat
@KaelWeston
is running for Congress in
#UT02
. Heโs a veteran who served 7 years in Iraq & Afghanistan, plus worked in the State Department. He can win this race! Kael currently has 2,150 followers โ letโs get him to 3,000 today! Ready, set... GO!!! โ
#CountryOverParty
Mike Lee was re-elected, but he is still on the run from accountability.
The DC Skedaddle.
Letโs keep asking when Lee will hold a an in-person town hall in SLC โ not in Piute County or in Provo.
#utpol
Utahns should be able to decide if we want to buy lottery tickets โ a few or a lot โ in our own state โฆ instead of โinvestingโ our dollars across the border in Evanston or Grand Junction.
#utpol
#utleg
Utah has only one United States senator worthy of the title & with a weighty legislative track record to prove it, not to mention wisdom & gravitas โ and that senator sure as hell ainโt โBasedMikeLee.โ
#utpol
We the people will vote this election year โ and in 2022 โ and remind Mr Lee (and his fellow Trumpist Mr Stewart) what democracy looks and feels like. Vote early. Vote Democratic.
#VOTE
#utpol
#BlueWave2020
Polls continue to show Chris Stewart, who treats his job to be Trumpโs full-time toady in Utah, is unpopular โ between 38% and 44% approval. On the wrong side of every issue during this momentous week...he does not represent
#UtahValues
Thank you, Pat Bagley, for communicating so well why Utahโs hardest working taxpayers โ juggling 2 or 3 jobs & usually with no health insurance โ should NOT be forced to pay for the LCC gondola $Boondoggle.
#utpol
#nogondola
Always remember:
In his first twelve years in the U.S. Senate, โBasedMikeLeeโ did not visit โ even once โ our troops, diplomats & aid workers deployed in the war zones of Iraq & Afghanistan.
#utpol
Letโs fire
#MikeLee
in the June GOP primary โ the best outcome for our state & our nation.
Before long, Lawyer Lee might be pleading the 5th.
#utpol
#Elections2022
Stewart misrepresented his presence at impeachment hearings (in fact he โattended only halfโ) & skipped all but one Intel Com meeting since Feb. He treats his duties like he treats his constituents โ drive-by only โ unless heโs defending Trump.
#utpol
Letโs start recruiting candidates to oppose this rep & senator.
Teachers:ย ย please apply.
Youโll have an army of Utahns behind you, including me.
#utpol
#utleg
#uted
#HB215
When will Utah leaders โ political, community, & religious โ & candidates speak out about these arrests in Idaho & the white supremacist groups active in our state?
#utpol
As the only U.S. Senate candidate in UT who supportsโstrongly & publiclyโa federal role in the management of Utahโs incredible & vulnerable
#publiclands
, I will continue to speak out about our stateโs โgeography of hopeโ as onetime Utahn & writer Wallace Stegner put it.
#utpol
โBasedMikeLeeโ knows nothing of war.
I sure as hell do.
Always remember:ย ย Lee not once visited our troops in Iraq & Afghanistan in his first 12 years in office โ the definition of senatorial dereliction of duty.
I wish he had.
#utpol
Chris Stewart & other GOP collaborators brought our country to the point where we have to actually remind would-be Tyrant Trump that he cannot delay elections. I will not congratulate my opponent for posting an easy tweet after being complicit for so long.
Impeachment must move forward for accountability based on the gravity of events this week.
Every member of congress needs to be on the record. Votes counted.
This is a matter of doing what is right. ... Not gaming out the political repercussions or political self-interest.
The voters in CD2 โ Iโm one of them โ get the final say in our representative democracy.
Of course the Utah Legislatureโs extreme & unconstitutional gerrymander of our stateโs congressional maps makes many, far too many voters, believe their votes do not matter.
#utpol
Mike Lee should stay out of national security matters & leave it to the pros.
Letโs remember: not once in his first 12 years in office did Lee visit our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Thatโs dereliction of senatorial duty.
Mike Lee โฆ did get to Moscow.
#utpol
@BasedMikeLee
Letโs have a real & honest policy discussion โ a long overdue one โ in our state about gun violence.
Will Utah Republicans, including Governor Cox, find the courage to work with Utah Democrats on common-sense laws?
If not, why not?
#utpol
#GunControlNow
This SOTU โ and this election year โ show why politicians should not mess with American women.
โฆ with their bodies.
โฆ with their rights.
Women Democratic members of Congress wearing all white.
#utpol
4th of July in St George today. Great parade. Voters here tired of being taken for granted by Republican politicians. We showed up. Stewart did another drive by ...
#RealRepresentation
#July4th2020
#utpol
Chris Stewart is complicit. He ignores Russian interference in our election & โshamefullyโ reported Russian bounties on our troops ... all the while trying to get a bill passed on behalf of companies that make silencers for guns.
Politicians do not belong in hospital rooms or clinics โ inserting themselves between women & their doctors & health care providers. (Politicians never belonged in our bedrooms either.)
#utpol
My momโs front yard.
The sooner extremist & anti-democratic Mike Lee is fired the better, for all of us in the Beehive State & for our country.
#utpol
#Elections2022
#VOTE
Letโs never again take for granted the level of dignity & kindness & goodness that we should expect and insist upon in the White House โ in our White House.
President Jimmy Carterโs birthday is today.
#utpol
Thank you U.S. Senate Democrats & some Republicans, including Sen. Romney, for ensuring that marriage equality remains protected for all Utahns & all Americans.
#utpol
#MarriageEquality
Voter apathy in Salt Lake County will make it more likely that the extreme politics practiced by extreme candidates becomes rooted in our stateโs largest, most diverse, most dynamic โ most gerrymandered โ county.
#utpol
#elections2022
#vote
#VoteDemocrat
#MikeLee
is silent on voting rightsย ย & duplicitous on the filibuster โ while trying to distract us from his role before, during & after 1/6.
#utpol
Mr Lee, an expert in self-serving sanctimonyโand bills from hell?โcontinues to misinform and mislead the public on important voting rights legislation.
#ForThePeopleAct
#utpol
I lived U.S. national security policy and priorities for a decade-plus when I represented our country, officially, including in two war zones. Mr Stewart is dangerously wrong and deceptive.
I support the Secretary of Defense and other military leaders in their decision to reposition U.S. troops from Germany.
- Repositioning U.S. troops East will clearly enhance Russian deterrence
โElection Year Stewart" is trying to rewrite his record, to distract & appear more moderate than he has demonstrated himself to be -- in his own words & through his voting record. Letโs look at some recent issues...
#utpol
Utah legislators do not belong โ and never did โ in clinics, hospital rooms (or bedrooms), between patients & physicians.
Roe was a 50-year equilibrium overturned by a multi-decade Federalist Society-led SCOTUS cabal backed by reactionary millionaires & billionaires.
#utpol
Republicans, across the U.S. and here in Utah, are failing us.
Republicans have consistently blocked meaningful legislation to address gun violence.
#utpol
โThe bill is coming due for those who sold their souls to Trump. [Voters] may boot out a good number of incumbents. The rest of us...will have learned how through silence and collaboration a cadre of well-educated comfortable men and women can rationalize and excuse anything.โ
Chris Stewart, as I have learned by campaigning against him over the last four months always chooses to distract and divide. He does not want voters to focus on COVID or his numerous attacks on our familiesโ health care or his failure to respond or represent his district.
#UT02
Are Utahโs elections secure?
Yes. If you are wondering, volunteer to be a poll worker. These people, our neighbors, remain the superglue in our democracy.
#utpol
Utah needs more MDs in state government & serving on critical boards โ not fewer.
@JStuartAdams
: I hope you & Utah Leg leaders will urge committee members to reconsider & vote to approve Dr. Harrisonโs nomination to the Utah Air Quality Board.
#utpol
@BradWilsonGOP
@GovCox
Chris Stewart skipped todayโs very important vote in support of our
#USPS
. More political malfeasance. More running away from accountability this election year.
Meanwhile Chris Stewart, Trumpโs
#1
Sycophant in UT, continues to look for excuses for his incompetent master (โour Mussoliniโ) in the Oval Office.
These are the firearms I grew up with โ no bump stocks required.
In my family, we hunted deer in southern Utahโs Mineral Mountains & pheasants in northern Utah.
#utpol
As a candidate for U.S. Senate in our countryโs second-driest state, our campaign and I will be talking a lot about water โ climate & drought & conservation, from Bear River & the Great Salt Lake to the Colorado River & Lake Powell.
#utpol
#UtahLake
#WaterInUtah
What makes Utah so special is our world-famous public lands, including the southern redrock remote region where I am now & spend a lot of time year-round.
#utpol
#utleg
We made it official today.
I filed my Declaration of Candidacy seeking the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate in my home state of
#Utah
.
#utpol
#Election2022
Secretary of Transportation & ex-Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
visited our fast-growing state today & showed how
#Democrats
are getting things done to help our environment โ historic infrastructure investments, flood & fire mitigation, & more.
Policymaking based on science & facts.
Which Utah leaders are speaking up & fighting for these workers? We the people should. One-party rule in Utah needs to endโit endangers all of us, but especially the most vulnerable. Public health is far more important than private profit.
#COVID19
#utpol
In week 1 of this session, the
#utleg
Republican supermajority has targeted (steamrolled) trans kids, shut down discussion of a bill re a waiting period for assault weapons, & undermined public school teachers & public education via a disingenuous school voucher program.
#utpol
Juneteenth in Escalante, Utah (pop. 797.) An opportunity to take a stand. We must acknowledge both the significance of the occasion and the context in which we mark it today.
#JUNETEENTH2020
#EscalanteUT
Chris Stewart, like his puppet master in the White House, hopes we wonโt read this article. Or that he wonโt be asked why he sponsored the bill on behalf of companies that make gun silencers.
#Priorities
Letโs not let โplease tell me what I should be sayingโ & โrank democracyโ Mike Lee run away from accountability and culpability.
Lee has lowered himself well below any standard of public service while on our payroll.
Lee remains a clear and present danger to our democracy.
The best political call Iโve received in a while was from Rep. Brian King last weekend while I was visiting friends in a small rural Utah town with a total population of 813.
King told me that he is running for governor.
#utpol
Itโs a simple fact that Utahโs next Governor, US Senator and really 90% of Utah elections will be decided in the
@UtahGOP
primary in June, not in November. If youโre not voting in the primary are you really participating?
Did you watch tonightโs Utah Debate Commission Debate between Chris Stewart, Rob Latham, and Kael Weston?
If you missed it you can watch the recording at the Debate Commission Facebook page.
If you watched, drop your comments below.
#utdebates
#utpol
Politically painful & embarrassing to see Mike Lee continue to show how little he knows โ and cares โabout global security & our critical allies โฆ while still tweeting at Japanโs PM. (He will probably target Pres. Zelensky next re US military aid & our NATO alliance.)
#utpol
As temps in Utah likely break a record today amid the Westโs ongoing drought, letโs encourage our elected reps and neighbors to focus on conservation, facts, and science โ and keeping promises.
#UtahDrought
#WaterInTheWest
As a voter, like other voters across
#Utah
& the U.S., candidates owe us *specifics* about how they will address gun violence. We should not elect or re-elect senators or reps who delay & distract from an issue that is killing kids & neighbors.
#utpol
#GunSafetyNow
#GunReformNow
Letโs have a real debate
@RepChrisStewart
โ you & me, one-on-one โ about U.S. national security & foreign policy. I represented our country, officially, for over a decade. Seven of those years in two war zones. Letโs start in Kane County & take our debates across all 14 counties.
As the Utah Legislature begins its 2024 session, letโs support urgent bills on issues that matter most to us Utahns โ on housing, infrastructure, water, air quality, etc.
#utpol
Now that we Utah voters are getting our ballots in the mail โ yes, via our well-run & overwhelmingly trusted mail-in system, which should be preserved in perpetuity โ letโs sift which candidates in Utah understand our stateโs urgent housing crisis:
#utpol
No part of the district, or rural post office, is forgotten in this campaign . Callao to Hanksville, Farmington to Ivins. 7,678 miles and counting in a 17-yr old Tacoma.
#utpol
#UT02
Thank you everyone for joining us this morning in Sugar House Park. We will have more signs available at future town hall events across CD2. Special thanks to
@ShireenGhorbani
, who ran a very strong race against no-show, drive-by Stewart in 2018.
Thank you DARLENE MCDONALD for holding Burgess Owens accountable.
@VoteDarlene
is running for Congress (CD4 in Utah) for the right reasons.
#utpol
#Elections2022
This Facebook post is not only nonsense but endangers constituentsโ lives, particularly Utahns most at-risk.
Governing is a deadly serious business. My 7 years in 2 wars sure taught me that. Being a U.S. senator should not be treated like Federalist Society Debate Club.
#utpol
Another clear example of Stewart's lack of judgment -- and on a day when COVID cases continue to climb. He ignores science and human biology - and facts. His willful ignorance endangers public health.
#COVID19
#PeopleFirst
#FactsMatter
โEvery generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?โ -John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America