Less than a month after the end of her first political race in Congressional District 2, Shireen Ghorbani has announced she will run for the Salt Lake County mayor seat being vacated by Rep.-elect Ben McAdams.
Ghorbani is a communications professional at the University of Utah and ran unsuccessfully to unseat Rep. Chris Stewart, but was wildly popular in the Salt Lake County portions of the district, winning 67 percent of the vote.
The half-Iranian daughter of an immigrant, Ghorbani decided to run after her mother fought and died from cancer in 2016, leaving the family with bills it didn’t know how to cover even with the help of Medicare.