Raise the bar for how data center plans are evaluated by agencies under my purview.
Spencer Cox
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Spencer James Cox is an American politician serving as the 18th governor of Utah since January 4, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously held the position of Lieutenant Governor of Utah from January 7, 2013, until he assumed the governorship. Cox has focused on various issues during his tenure, including economic development, education, and public health. He has been an advocate for bipartisanship and community engagement in governance.
I took an oath to the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, and I’m going to uphold that oath.
I don’t go into this looking at your chromosomes when I’m making an appointment.
We reviewed everything these nominees have written, argued, or decided, and we spent hours in interviews, discussing temperament, respect for the rule of law, judicial philosophy, and many other important questions.
I care a lot more about their ability to deliver justice in an unbiased way.
Not just so our district court judges can read it quickly, because they’re overwhelmed constantly, but so average Utahns can read these cases.
I believe in textualism. I believe in originalism. I believe in judicial restraint.
I suspect, and I hope, that we will have differences of opinion with these new justices as well.
I feel just incredibly blessed that we had such amazing qualified people who care deeply and were interested in this position.
This creates a 'higher bar' for how these projects are evaluated and ensures that economic strength and environmental stewardship go hand in hand.
This new framework creates a 'higher bar for how these projects are evaluated and ensures that economic strength and environmental stewardship go hand in hand.'
There’s nobody out there, including me, who would support 9 gigawatts of natural gas power.
Geothermal projects have the bipartisan support of an energy source that we haven’t had in a long time.
That’s where the biggest cutbacks will always be, always have been, and so I get pretty fired up about that one, because it’s a lie and it’s wrong.
We need you now more than ever, this country, if we’re going to make it another 250 years, if we’re going to make it another two point five years, we desperately need you to lay down your swords and treat each other with dignity and…
To my fellow Americans, to my fellow worshipers, whatever it is, whether you’re in a sacred place like this, whether you’re in a synagogue, whether you’re in a mosque, I don’t care where it is, you are are fellow Americans.
These are the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the history of the world, and they’re profiting off of destroying our kids and destroying our country, and they know it, and it’s very intentional.
At some point we have to find an off-ramp, or else it’s going to get much worse.
I think if you were to ask him that question, he would say no. I don't think that's happened.
In my faith, we believe in agency. We believe that we are responsible for our own decisions and that other people aren't responsible for those.
We keep thinking if we just win this election, we'll never have to work with those people.





