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December primary in NH? Orrin Hatch: The $4 million man. Where's Huntsman's SuperPac?
Happy Thursday. Yes, my friends, it is possible that New Hampshire voters could be holding their presidential primary in December. You read that correctly. December. NH Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who by law must set the date of the Granite State's primary a week before a "similar election," is angered by Nevada moving up its caucuses to Jan. 13 and says he'll go before the holiday season if he must. [UnionLeader] [WaPost] [Politico]
Topping the news: RealClearPolitics' Erin McPike asks a good question: Where is the Our Destiny PAC that was supposed to be boosting Jon Huntsman's name recognition? [RCP]
-> Sen. Orrin Hatch raises $1.6 million in the last quarter — topping his previous record of $1.3 million — but only a small percentage came from Utahns. The senator now has more than $4 million in the bank for his re-election. [Trib]
-> The Latino population has grown so much in Salt Lake County, that the federal government is ordering the county to provide voters with information and ballots in Spanish. [Trib] [DNews]
Tweet of the day: From @Evil_Dumbledore: "Dear Blackberry, I think it's nice that you're honouring Steve Jobs' death with a 3 day silence."
Happy birthday: To state Rep. Greg Hughes and the NRCC's Joanna Burgos.
Congrats: To trivia question winner Lesley Manley, who correctly said the Jeopardy question about Sen. Orrin Hatch was, "What is a dog and pony show?" NPR has the image that Hatch showed at the hearing: [NPR]. Runners up: Robert L. Dibblee, Doug Duncan, Adam Fine, Kelly White, Chad Chitwood, Cole Spicker, Chase Everton, Richard Jaussi and Spencer Stokes.
In other news: Democrats say that the GOP's move on redistricting is lacking transparency. [Trib] [Herald]
-> UTA approved a new budget that includes money for the Sugar House streetcar and continuing to build out FrontRunner and TRAX lines. [Trib]
-> Herbert is leading the charge to delay an EPA rule that would limit pollution from power plants. [Trib]
-> The governor, meanwhile, uses the Utah Education Network to talk to every high school in the state as part of his rural Utah tour. [Trib] [DNews]
-> Rep. Jason Chaffetz introduces a measure with a New York Democrat to turn around a new law that banks say is forcing them to recoup funds by charging some debit card users $5 a month. [MarketWatch]
-> Rep. Jim Matheson writes an op-ed supporting his legislation to allow U.S. companies to return their overseas profits to America without a big tax hit. [USAToday]
-> Some of the positive assumptions about Utah you're probably aware of, others might surprise you. [UtahPolicy]
-> Bryan Schott talks with the founder of two sites that track the 2012 election on Twitter. [UtahPolicy]
-> Utah's Hatch, Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Rob Bishop joined Arizona members of Congress to push to open up the area near the Utah-Arizona state line for uranium mining. [AP]
-> Sen. Hatch goes on Fox News to defend the LDS Church and says "nobody with brains" would say adherents don't believe in Jesus Christ. [YouTube]
-> A Cache Valley native has written a book about how one can be a Democrat and a good Mormon. [CacheValleyDaily]
-> Peg McEntee finds that the Occupy Salt Lake movement is peaceful and courteous to other users of Pioneer Park — even helping out the homeless. [Trib]
-> KCPW says a loan from SLC's Redevelopment Agency will not affect how it reports on the city. [Trib]
2012 watch: President Barack Obama's top campaign adviser David Axelrod says Romney is "stunningly inconsistent." [NYDailyNews]
-> ABC4's Chris Vanocur recalls when a member of the LDS Church's First Presidency commented on the possibility of a Mormon president. [ABC4]
-> Huntsman goes after Romney as a "professional politician." [CBSNews]
-> Romney's hiring of an adviser has come under fire by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. [DailyBeast]
-> A lifelong Democrat says he'll be voting for Obama next year but is still hoping Huntsman gets the GOP nod. [HuffPost]
-> NPR gets around to reporting on Huntsman's Rock 'n' Roll years. [NPR]
-> The head of the LDS Church's public affairs arm offers his take on critics who say Mormons aren't Christians. [WaPost]
-> Political science guru Larry Sabato says Romney's Mormon faith won't be as big of ad deal as the media is making it out to be. [NewsMax]
-> Jeb Bush says he's impressed with Romney. [Politico]
-> What happened during the debate break between Romney and host Charlie Rose? Rose asked Romney to explain his position on de-leveraging Greece. [ABCNews]
-> Romney's "good neighbor" strategy — reminding voters that he's got a home in N.H. and seeing folks that had moved from Massachusetts — is helping him. [BostonHerald]
Where are they?
Sen. Orrin Hatch attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Rep. Jim Matheson attends an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on privacy.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz heads to the USAID offices and meets with Administrator Shah and attends a Judiciary markup of his Fairness for High-Skiller Immigrants Act.
Gov. Gary Herbert continues his rural tour, starting at Barnes Bullets in Mona, then to Fairview for lunch with community leaders, to Ephraim to visit Bailey's Hay Cubing, to Gunnison to see Applied Composite Technologies, to Redmond to tour Redmond Salt, Circleville to stop by Morgan's Dairy and lastly to Panguitch for a dutch oven dinner.
AG Mark Shurtleff speaks at the Explosion of Youth Problems in Park City and later attends the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice meeting.
SLC Mayor Ralph Becker welcomes the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcome Republican of Korea President Lee Myung-bak and First Lady Kim Yoon-ok to the White House and later the two presidents hold a meeting in the Oval Office and hold a news conference. President Obama later hosts a State Dinner for President Lee.
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— Thomas BurrTwitter.com/thomaswburr