| Updated: 9:15 p.m.
Utah GOP Chairman Derek Brown has announced he will not run for a second term as the party’s leader, telling supporters that he wants to spend more time with his family and is ready ”to pass the baton.”
“Party leadership service, after all, is no different from public service. It is designed to be seasonal,” Brown wrote Tuesday to fellow party members. “You commit to serving 100% for a short season, wear yourself out in the process, and then pass the heavy baton to another who likewise feels that ‘subtle nudge’ to serve.”
Brown’s email boasted that during his two-year term, the party has managed to pay down its debt, raise more than $1 million, hold a virtual convention necessitated by the pandemic and reclaim the 4th Congressional District, which Republicans lost to Democrat Ben McAdams in 2018.
Utah GOP chair says he won t seek another term
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Astute Pelosi wields power with virus relief win
02 Mar 2021
Shawn Zeller,
Tribune News Service
When voters narrowed House Democrats’ 35-seat majority to just nine in last year’s election, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s job got harder. Conventional wisdom had it that she’d have to tread carefully with Democrats’ famously restive caucus, with progressives on one side and the majority-makers from more conservative districts on the other. But as Saturday’s vote on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill demonstrated, Pelosi still has plenty of room to manoeuvre.
Only two Democrats voted against the bill. Despite united opposition from the Republicans, Pelosi secured a 219-212 win.