Tag: Public Policy Polling

The 4th District congresswoman sent out a fundraising email last week hammering her Democratic opponent, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, for being a closet liberal. It read like it could have been written by President Donald Trump during one of his early morning Twitter rants, ridiculing her opponent’s “Moderate McAdams” image and accusing the press of going easy on him. One of the issues where she says McAdams has shown his true liberal colors is same-sex marriage. That’s double the support measured in the state in a 2011 poll by Public Policy Polling. “I am committed to join with Utah voters to continue the fight,” she said. There wasn’t a word from her after the Kitchen v. Herbert decision made marriage legal in Utah, or after the Obergefell decision that made it the law nationwide. Love’s campaign manager, Dave Hansen, said he doesn’t know what Love thinks about same-sex marriage or what, if anything, she would like to see Congress do on the issue. “This was a liberal position at the time” the court ruled in Obergefell (in 2015) “and that’s the position he took.” It’s not really clear what Love or Congress could do to roll back same-sex marriage. Would they seriously attempt to dissolve the thousands of unions around the country and face that backlash? And it probably will if she wins, because, as they say: Love is Love.