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Huntsman forms PAC to support like-minded Republicans

Last updated Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:23am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is creating a new political action committee to raise money for like-minded, Republicans across the country.

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Mia Love makes it official: She's running again

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 4:58pm

SANDY — Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love has declared she wants another shot at the congressional seat occupied by Democrat Jim Matheson.

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Utah GOP elects owner of payday lending company party chairman

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 12:03am

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Republicans have selected former state senator and Salt Lake County GOP Chairman James Evans as the new leader of their state party.

Evans, a former captain in the Air Force and owner of a payday lending company, was elected with almost 60 percent of the votes cast by several thousand Republicans gathered at the party’s annual organizing convention on Saturday.

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Hatch: IRS workers either 'incompetent' or 'evil'

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 4:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch says staffers at the Internal Revenue Service, which recently apologized for unfairly targeting Tea Party groups, "are either deliberately incompetent or they are evil."

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FILE - This Oct. 4, 2012 file photo shows Utah Republican candidate Mia Love during an interview in Salt Lake City. Utah Republicans are gearing up to select a new state party leader and consider reforming the way they nominate candidates when they gather for their annual organizing convention on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Former Republican congressional candidate and Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love is expected to deliver a speech at the convention Saturday afternoon. Love has not officially announced whether she will seek a rematch with Democratic U.S. Rep Jim Matheson in 2014 but says she's "seriously looking" at another run. Love spokeswoman Alisia Essig declined to comment on whether Love might officially announce another run on Saturday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah GOP preparing to pick new state party leader

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 17, 2013 - 3:19pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Republicans are gearing up to select a new state party leader from three candidates and consider revamping the way they nominate party candidates when they gather for their annual organizing convention on Saturday.

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Utahns gave Romney $9.2M for campaign

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 9:32am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah residents donated just shy of $12 million to presidential candidates last year, according to the latest campaign disclosure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

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GOP support for background checks dwindles

Alan Fram The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 15, 2013 - 5:15pm

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers is in jeopardy. The pool of potential Republican votes that Democrats will need to push the measure through the Senate has dwindled, and President Barack Obama was calling lawmakers Monday as both sides hunted support for a nail-biting showdown vote expected this week.

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GOP faithful divided over compromising

Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 8:47am

LOS ANGELES -- With bipartisan deals emerging on President Barack Obama's top priorities, the GOP's most devout activists are deeply divided over potential compromises in Congress - only the latest fissure for a party struggling to regain its footing.

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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks during a New Hampshire primary night party in Manchester, N.H. Huntsman is speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California on Thursday, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Huntsman says GOP needs to broaden appeal

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 4:36pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Republican presidential candidate and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is calling on his party broaden its appeal before the next presidential election.

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Rove: Next GOP presidential contender could back gay marriage

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 25, 2013 - 10:07am

WASHINGTON -- GOP strategist Karl Rove says he can imagine a Republican candidate in the next presidential campaign supporting gay marriage.

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FILE - Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, enjoys being an enigma to outsiders. (AP File Photo)

Ex-Romney campaign manager to monitor Dems for embarrassing quotes

Rachel Weiner The Washington Post

Last updated Friday, March 22, 2013 - 10:05am

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager is working with two Republican National Committee staff members to form America Rising, a conservative opposition research group, organizers said Thursday.

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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus gestures while speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2013. The RNC formally endorsed immigration reform on Monday and outlined plans for a $10 million outreach to minority groups _ gay voters among them _ as part of a strategy to make the GOP more "welcoming and inclusive" for voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

GOP civil war surfaces over immigration

Julie Hirschfeld Davis Bloomberg News

Last updated Monday, March 18, 2013 - 2:23pm

OXON HILL, Md. — As bipartisan immigration legislation takes shape in Congress to grant legal status to the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, a quiet civil war is raging in the Republican Party on the issue.

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FILE - Sen. Orin Hatch, R-Utah, pauses in the Capitol in Washington in this file photo taken Nov. 18, 2009. Hatch may have been begun a seventh and final term in January, but that's not stopping him from attending fundraisers. The Utah Republican has attended at least five fundraisers to benefit his political action committee since January, and has plans for at least three more such fundraisers, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Hatch hopes to get chairmanship by raising funds for GOP

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 18, 2013 - 10:49am

SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch may have begun a seventh and final term in January, but that's not stopping him from holding fundraisers.

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush talks with the media following his address on education to the Texas Business Leadership Council in Austin, Texas. Bush writes in a new book that the nation needs to completely overhaul its immigration policies but cautions against providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a position that puts him at odds with some Senate reformers within his own party. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Jeb Bush making play for GOP 'leader' status

David Nakamura, Peter Wallsten The Washington Post

Last updated Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 10:22am

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has remained on the sidelines since his older brother left the White House with dismal ratings four years ago, has jumped back into the political fray this week with a new book, wall-to-wall television interviews and a round of public speaking engagements.

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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (center), joined by wife Ann (right), talks with a spectator before a welterweight fight in Las Vegas in December. Romney has emerged from nearly four months in seclusion for an interview airing today on “Fox News Sunday.” He plans to deliver his first post-election speech, in about two weeks at Washington’s Conservative Political Action Conference. (Associated Press file photo)

Romney is back, but GOP reception lukewarm

Ken Thomas, Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 11:08pm

BOSTON -- Mitt Romney is back, if only briefly.

The former Republican presidential candidate is re-emerging after nearly four months in seclusion at his Southern California home.

Former aides describe his burst of activity this month - a national broadcast interview, a speech at a gathering of conservatives - as a thank-you tour of sorts designed to close out a lengthy political career.

His party isn't exactly clamoring for his return.

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