Announcements
- State brand online store: https://www.shoptravelok.com/
- Anti Hunger Day - Tuesday Feb 25th
- Presidential primary: March 3rd
- LFT Capitol Day: April 1st
- Census starts: April 1st
- Child Advocacy Day: May 6th
This week at the Capitol:
- Tribal gaming update
- OMES says $85.5m less to appropriate this year from last year
- Senate approved SJR to call a constitutional convention
- School suicide awareness passes senate committee
- Snow cones soon to be available in the winter
- Chamber of origin committee deadline next Friday 2/28
State questions update
- 802 (Medicaid expansion) waiting for governor to place on a ballot
- 805 (CJR) collecting signatures
- 807 (rec weed) legal challenge to be heard on 2/26
- 808 (rec weed) can collect sigs, but Tay is incarcerated
- 809 (gun repeal) received legal challenge from
- 810 (independent redistricting) waiting for legal challenge on 2/28
Let’s talk elections
- Caucus vs Primary
- Briefly discuss/ debate their merits (wacky vs normal)
- Super Tuesday!
- State races primary: June 30
- Online Voter Registration [probably] coming in 2021
- State race candidate filing: Apr 8-10
- Odd fact: elections are prohibited, by law, in the months of May, July, Sept, Oct, & December of even-numbered years.
