Blake Moore bucking GOP on redistricting draws heat from Utah primary challenger
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Rep. Blake Moore’s (R-UT) past support for a major anti-gerrymandering initiative is coming back to haunt him as he campaigns for reelection in Utah.
Moore’s GOP primary challenger, Utah state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, this week suggested that his leadership passing Proposition 4 effectively led to “pro-abortion” Democrats likely taking control of another House seat in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
“Blake Moore’s career will be remembered for giving pro-abortion Democrats a seat in Congress. My career has been spent fighting against Planned Parenthood. I’m running for Congress to let Utahns decide which future they want. Join the pro-life team,” Lisonbee wrote in a post to X on Tuesday, the same day she launched her campaign to oust Moore in the Republican primary for the second congressional district.
In her statement, Lisonbee, the House sponsor of the state’s near-total abortion ban in 2020, responded to a video made by state Sen. Nate Blouin, the progressive Democratic candidate campaigning to flip the 1st Congressional District blue. In that video, Blouin expressed his support for Planned Parenthood, the country’s primary abortion provider, and said Roe v. Wade should be codified into law.
The infighting among Republicans centers on Moore’s support for Prop. 4, a ballot initiative he helped spearhead nearly a decade ago that promoted independent oversight of redistricting. Moore has recently faced heat from conservatives for not pushing to repeal Prop. 4, which Republicans such as President Donald Trump want to be rescinded to promote redistricting efforts favoring the GOP.
Moore’s campaign told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Lisonbee’s attack marks “an effort by a retiring legislator to blame Blake for a judge’s terrible decision and to draw resources away from saving our Republican majority.”
Moore helped lead a group called Better Boundaries, which in 2018 championed a successful effort to pass Prop. 4, a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that established an independent redistricting commission to recommend new political maps to the state legislature.
The legislature later repealed Prop. 4 and passed a new redistricting map that favored Republicans in 2020. Utah District Court Judge Dianna Gibson blocked the new map last November after reinstating Prop. 4 in August, arguing that the legislature violated the state’s constitution when it nullified the proposition and that the new map did not comply …
Why resist verification?
Rep. Blake Moore’s (R-UT) past support for a major anti-gerrymandering initiative is coming back to haunt him as he campaigns for reelection in Utah.
Moore’s GOP primary challenger, Utah state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, this week suggested that his leadership passing Proposition 4 effectively led to “pro-abortion” Democrats likely taking control of another House seat in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
“Blake Moore’s career will be remembered for giving pro-abortion Democrats a seat in Congress. My career has been spent fighting against Planned Parenthood. I’m running for Congress to let Utahns decide which future they want. Join the pro-life team,” Lisonbee wrote in a post to X on Tuesday, the same day she launched her campaign to oust Moore in the Republican primary for the second congressional district.
In her statement, Lisonbee, the House sponsor of the state’s near-total abortion ban in 2020, responded to a video made by state Sen. Nate Blouin, the progressive Democratic candidate campaigning to flip the 1st Congressional District blue. In that video, Blouin expressed his support for Planned Parenthood, the country’s primary abortion provider, and said Roe v. Wade should be codified into law.
The infighting among Republicans centers on Moore’s support for Prop. 4, a ballot initiative he helped spearhead nearly a decade ago that promoted independent oversight of redistricting. Moore has recently faced heat from conservatives for not pushing to repeal Prop. 4, which Republicans such as President Donald Trump want to be rescinded to promote redistricting efforts favoring the GOP.
Moore’s campaign told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Lisonbee’s attack marks “an effort by a retiring legislator to blame Blake for a judge’s terrible decision and to draw resources away from saving our Republican majority.”
Moore helped lead a group called Better Boundaries, which in 2018 championed a successful effort to pass Prop. 4, a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that established an independent redistricting commission to recommend new political maps to the state legislature.
The legislature later repealed Prop. 4 and passed a new redistricting map that favored Republicans in 2020. Utah District Court Judge Dianna Gibson blocked the new map last November after reinstating Prop. 4 in August, arguing that the legislature violated the state’s constitution when it nullified the proposition and that the new map did not comply …
Blake Moore bucking GOP on redistricting draws heat from Utah primary challenger
Why resist verification?
Rep. Blake Moore’s (R-UT) past support for a major anti-gerrymandering initiative is coming back to haunt him as he campaigns for reelection in Utah.
Moore’s GOP primary challenger, Utah state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, this week suggested that his leadership passing Proposition 4 effectively led to “pro-abortion” Democrats likely taking control of another House seat in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
“Blake Moore’s career will be remembered for giving pro-abortion Democrats a seat in Congress. My career has been spent fighting against Planned Parenthood. I’m running for Congress to let Utahns decide which future they want. Join the pro-life team,” Lisonbee wrote in a post to X on Tuesday, the same day she launched her campaign to oust Moore in the Republican primary for the second congressional district.
In her statement, Lisonbee, the House sponsor of the state’s near-total abortion ban in 2020, responded to a video made by state Sen. Nate Blouin, the progressive Democratic candidate campaigning to flip the 1st Congressional District blue. In that video, Blouin expressed his support for Planned Parenthood, the country’s primary abortion provider, and said Roe v. Wade should be codified into law.
The infighting among Republicans centers on Moore’s support for Prop. 4, a ballot initiative he helped spearhead nearly a decade ago that promoted independent oversight of redistricting. Moore has recently faced heat from conservatives for not pushing to repeal Prop. 4, which Republicans such as President Donald Trump want to be rescinded to promote redistricting efforts favoring the GOP.
Moore’s campaign told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Lisonbee’s attack marks “an effort by a retiring legislator to blame Blake for a judge’s terrible decision and to draw resources away from saving our Republican majority.”
Moore helped lead a group called Better Boundaries, which in 2018 championed a successful effort to pass Prop. 4, a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that established an independent redistricting commission to recommend new political maps to the state legislature.
The legislature later repealed Prop. 4 and passed a new redistricting map that favored Republicans in 2020. Utah District Court Judge Dianna Gibson blocked the new map last November after reinstating Prop. 4 in August, arguing that the legislature violated the state’s constitution when it nullified the proposition and that the new map did not comply …
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