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Karianne Lisonbee discusses her primary challenge against Blake Moore and the implications of GOP involvement in judicial retention elections.

Utah's most senior member in the House is heading into a serious primary challenge. Outgoing state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee is fresh off a commanding victory at the Utah GOP State Convention over incumbent Rep. Blake Moore. She joins Lindsay today to discuss the perspective she hopes to bring to Washington and why she think it's time for voters to move on from Rep. Moore. Plus, some leaders in the state GOP are calling on voters to not retain two justices on the state supreme court. We talk to leadership at the Utah State Bar to hear their concerns about the party becoming so directly involved in a judicial retention election.

People in this episode

Host: Lindsay Aerts

Guest: Karianne Lisonbee

Topics covered

• primary challenge
• judicial tensions
• Utah politics
• GOP convention
• state supreme court

Keywords

• Utah politics
• primary challenge
• Karianne Lisonbee
• Blake Moore
• judicial retention
• Utah State Bar
• GOP

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Organizations: Utah GOP, Utah State Bar

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