Romney raises $1.3M in Utah. Lee's timely book. Ads promote Hatch, Lee.

Happy Tuesday. State Sen. Curt Bramble and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will speak this morning at the National Press Club during a forum addressing whether the states should tackle immigration reform. More info here: [ImmigrationWorks]. Look for news from the event later on our website.

Topping the news: The Trib's Matt Canham runs the numbers: Mitt Romney raised $1.3 million from Utahns in the last three months, but that's less than half of what he raised during a comparable period in his 2008 race. [Trib]

-> Sen. Mike Lee's first book, The Freedom Agenda, is now available and includes not only his argument for a balanced budget amendment but also the text of the U.S. Constitution. Pocket-size edition yet unavailable. [Trib] [DailyCaller]

-> KSL's John Daley reports on new ads, sponsored by 501(c)4 organizations, that are running in Utah praising Lee and Sen. Orrin Hatch. [KSL]

-> Arab diplomats suggest Utah businesses take advantage of recent pro-Democracy movements to stake ties to the region. [Trib]

Tweet of the day: From @SandstromUtah (Rep. Stephen Sandstrom): "I don't want the issue of immigration to divide the Utah GOP. We can't give advantage to the Dems."

Congrats! Rep. Jason Chaffetz's campaign manager, Deidre Henderson, and her husband, Gabe, are celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary today.

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Where are they?

• Sen. Orrin Hatch meets with the "Do the Write Thing Challenge" student ambassadors from Utah regarding youth violence.
• Sen. Lee appears on Fox and Friends this morning, meets with the National Campaign to Stop Violence and the Utah Association of Conservation Districts.
• Rep. Rob Bishop joins the GOP Conference weekly meeting, appears on a conference call with the Utah Cattlemen's Association, hits a Rules Committee meeting and sits down with the Republican Policy Committee meeting with Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
• Rep. Chaffetz also hits the GOP Conference meeting and another meeting of the Cybersecurity Task Force and spends floor time for the vote on his Cut, Cap and Balance bill.
• Rep. Jim Matheson did not release a public schedule.
• Gov. Gary Herbert visits the Utah Department of Health, joins a news conference on requesting a Medicaid waiver and meets with Lt. Gov. Greg Bell.
• AG Mark Shurtleff is in Washington for the Immigration Works Conference, does a news conference at the National Press Club, lunches with congressional staffers and visits several members' offices before hitting the National Immigration Forum.
• SL Co. Mayor Peter Corroon is in Portland, Ore., for the National Association of Counties meeting.
• SLC Mayor Ralph Becker meets with department directors, chats with Helmets to Hard Hats group director Daryl Roberts, attends a lunch meeting on the proposed performing arts center and hits the City Council meeting.
• WVC Mayor Mike Winder attends the City Council meeting.
• President Barack Obama meets with senior advisers in the Oval Office.

In other news: The state Redistricting Commission has changed the site of its final Salt Lake County public hearing. [Trib]

-> Chaffetz and fellow Republicans decry the president's veto threat of the Cup, Cap and Balance legislation. [TheHill]

-> Pat Bagley skewers the political rhetoric now flowing out of Washington. [Trib]

-> Peg McEntee says new Utah Democratic Chairman Jim Dabakis has a mission -- and the background to make it happen. [Trib]

-> Sen. Lee appears on Fox News' Greta Van Susteren to talk about his new book and the debt ceiling options. [FoxNews]

-> Utah Policy's Bob Bernick discusses the possibility of Karen Morgan's gubernatorial bid and what happens if Matheson jumps in, too. [UtahPolicy]

-> A balanced budget amendment is also on the Legislature's special session menu -- and actually has a chance of passing as compared to the one in Congress. [Herald]

-> Gov. Herbert attends the groundbreaking for NuSkin's new Innovation Center. [Herald] [KUTV]

-> Utah regulators are going to spend the next few months educating pest exterminators in order to protect consumers. [Trib]

-> A Blanding man gets two years probation after the Native American artifact raid. [Trib]

-> The Leonardo is asking SLC for a $600,000 loan to keep paying staff and market itself. [Trib]

2012 watch: Huntsman would not be the first president who served as ambassador previously. [TheStreet]

-> Huntsman and Tim Pawlenty don't get a single vote in a new South Carolina poll. [Slate]

-> ABC4's Chris Vanocur makes fun of Huntsman for saying the word that involves "mierda el toro." [ABC4]

-> Romney beats Obama in Michigan, according to a new poll. [FreePress]

-> Presidential candidate Herman Cain said Romney lost South Carolina in 2008 because he didn't go a good job of explaining his Mormon religion. [TPM]

-> One of Romney's top bundlers is also a lobbyist for a "so-called foreclosure mill." [BostonGlobe]

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