The Utah weirdness deepens
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller
* As we discussed earlier this month, Salt Lake City’s Deseret News allegedly “confirmed” that Gov. JB Pritzker would speak at a Democratic Party event in Ogden, Utah on May 31, which is today.
That turned out to be false. Pritzker did not agree to appear, but was sending a video.
* Last night, Salt Lake City’s ABC4 reported this…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has cancelled his scheduled appearance and keynote address at the Utah Democrats’ organizing convention less than 24 hours before the start of Saturday’s event in Ogden, party leadership has confirmed.
Current party chair, Dianne Lewis told ABC4.com that Pritzker was forced to stay in Chicago due to the state’s general assembly (state legislature) being in session and budget negotiations that required him to stay. Their session was supposed to end Friday night at midnight.
Lewis had also hoped Pritzker would send a video message, but said that, too, won’t happen.
* OK, three things…
1) Pritzker is in Springfield;
2) The session is supposed to end tonight, not last night;
3) Pritzker’s people said they sent a video a couple of weeks ago because it was clear he could not make it to the event, and that was communicated.
Click here for the video.
- Michelle Flaherty - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 6:33 pm:
That SLC ABC 4 report is so full of errors it could be a Sun-Times special summer activity section.
- clec dcn - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 6:45 pm:
Utah is a completely red state they would not like him and hope he never shows up in Utah. Smart people live in Utah for sure.
- Norseman - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 7:35 pm:
The file appears to be loaded in Dropbox. It required me as a user to request permission. We’ll see if I get it.
- Rich Miller - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 7:58 pm:
===We’ll see if I get it===
I hope so, but that monster is too big to download.
- 47th Ward - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 8:19 pm:
Forget it, Jake. It’s Utahtown.
- Incandenza - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 8:57 pm:
Someone somewhere was operating on bad information.
- Norseman - Saturday, May 31, 25 @ 9:13 pm:
Got it. Great speech. If they don’t view it they missed a good one. My only nit to pick is that they need to rephrase the kleptocracy line to ensure all voters get the point.