WHITLEY: If Spencer Cox Is Reelected, He/Him Will Turn Utah Blue
2024 Jul 19. Cox said shortly after J6 the country would be better off if Trump stepped down. He (purportedly) said in a Tweet that his wife dreamed of punching Trump in the face. Now, after the primary and the RNC, Cox claims he supports Trump and lectures him on civility. Facebook.
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2024 Jun 08. The Post Millennial. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox oversaw implementation of DEI in education while taking $550 MILLION from Biden’s COVID funds.
29 May 2024. FB post by podcaster Kate Dalley talks about Cox's true colors.
02 May 2024. Letter to the Editor (St. George News) does a great job explaining why Cox was boo'd at convention. Thank you Michelle!
29 Apr 2024. Cox fund-raising email said extreme right-wing extremists voted for his opponent at the convention.
27 Apr 2024. In his convention speech, pawned off on "others" the suggestion that the caucus-convention system doesn't work. Then stated it in a fundraising letter 2 days later.
26 Apr 2024. The day before Convention, at a speech at Utah Valley University, Cox pre-explained his following day convention loss. He painted delegates and those who "love Roberts Rules" and "that crap" as extremists.
15 Mar 2024. Is outed by whistleblowers and featured in a podcast with AG candidate Trent Christensen about extortion of the state Attorney General (Reyes).
24 Feb 2024. Spencer Cox is really in Joe Biden's camp and has made no secret of it. Joe Biden and Spencer Cox call for more bipartisanship. Translation: Just disagree better with me and submit.
18 Jan 2024. Says to "stay weird." Original Deseret news link was taken down so this link is in the Internet archive. Or Download PDF. Deseret subsequently went to lengths to explain why he said that.
Thanksgiving 2023. Continues to lecture us on civility. Along with the Colorado governor, is featured in a video on how to Disagree Better ™. In the video he labels your MAGA uncle as the election conspiracy theorist.
12 Oct 2023. KUTV. Using Attorney General Sean Reyes's problems to cover up an attempt at a power grab, Cox proposed making the position of Attorney General appointable by the governor, rather than elected by the people.
25 Sep 2023. Is featured in Utah News, an independent news outlet.
22 Apr 2023. Experiences a meltdown at the Utah GOP Organizing Convention when conservative podcaster Jason Preston catches him denying knowing anything about "smart cities." (You can donate to Jason Preston's We Are the People here!)
Conveniently, Utah Ignite has taken down the web page about then Lt Governor Cox speaking at a luncheon on smart cities December 17, 2019. That page is archived here.
Cox's booth was a big spread right in the middle of the entry area of the exhibit room, and his people were serving hot dogs. Not everybody would take it the same way but it grossed ME out.
And after a barn-storming speech by Ron DeSantis that practically brought down the roof of the convention center, Cox's reception by the delegates was lukewarm at best.
10 Feb 2023. Breitbart reports. Californians fleeing the high-crime Democrat state, stay in California!
But Cox has NOOO problem welcoming immigrants from everywhere else. Date unknown.
26 Aug 2022 (about). Called a mentally disabled volleyball fan an a*hole for purportedly shouting out a racial slur at a volleyball match. A subsequent investigation into the purported racist turned up NO evidence that it ever happened. There is NO record I am aware of that he reached out to the family of that volleyball fan and apologized. Notice the original tweet from Cox was deleted.
09 May 2022. On Cox's watch, COVID treatments such as monoclonal antibodies were allocated based on racial preferences. To "score" patients for treatments, ethnicities scored higher than pre-existing conditions and symptoms. Washington Free Beacon.
22 Mar 2022. Cox vetos transgender sports ban. Politico. Just think of how in the 2024 Olympics we saw a man hitting a woman. Cox would have allowed this.
16 Dec 2021. According to Cox, election conspiracy theorists are playing a very dangerous game.
30 Sep 2021. Your rights as an individual to choose what you inject yourself with matter less than a business's right to mandate a COVID vaccine as a condition of employment. Cox refused to support a bill banning business vaccine mandates.
The false "conservative" position on this is "we don't want to tell businesses what to do." But YES, we do tell businesses they can't dump toxic chemicals in water ways. We do make businesses control their emissions.
03 Aug 2021. Spencer Cox calls the COVID spike a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." Blaming it on the non-vaxxed. See Spencer Cox - the Naked Globalist.
30 Jul 2021. The Hill. Vaccine Hesitancy is killing people.
16 Apr 2021. The Federalist. Utah Governor Defends Racism As Long As It’s Against White Kids.
30 Apr 2021 (about). While he did not QUITE go all the way there to cattle branding the unvaxxed, Cox implied that the "fully vaccinated" were first class citizens and that they were somehow entitled to more liberty. Original video was here or here. (Internet Archive crashes when trying to back up.)
21 Jan 2021. Spencer Cox says Trump resigning is "good for the nation." This was shortly after J6 and well before the mountain of suppressed exculpatory evidence that has come out about that day.
04 Jan 2021. Protesters lined the path to Cox's inauguration as governor, knowing his record as Lieutenant Governor under Gary Herbert.
15 Dec 2020. Fox 13. This is actually on Governor Herbert's watch while Cox was still Lieutenant Governor. Utah compact on racial equity, diversity and inclusion
20 Oct 2020. Did a joint Disagree Better video with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Chris Peterson, Cox's opponent in the 2020 general election. 2024 Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman did a parody video with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Brian King and was severely criticized for it by the GOPe (including Mike Lee), ignoring Cox's earlier video with Peterson. Youtube video here.
24 Jun 2020. Gets on his Twitter moral high-horse to lecture us on wearing masks.
Maybe it would have been better for us as individuals to decide on whether to wear masks. See Reason, 2 Aug 2 2023.
29 Apr 2020. On the Herbert / Cox watch, Utah refused hydroxychloroquine, which, when properly dosed, could have successfully treated COVID patients. See Utah refused HCQ.