Utah Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert says he will join the growing field of Republicans running for the nomination and the right to face Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams in 2020.
Hemmert, an Orem Republican and vice president and owner of 23 Red Hanger Cleaners laundry and dry cleaners, said he’s running because the 4th Congressional District “needs a strong representative in Washington who will fight for Utah’s common-sense conservative values like fiscal restraint, less government intrusion and free market economic principles.”
Although McAdams, the former mayor of Salt Lake County, is a member of the Blue Dog group of moderate Democrats, Hemmert has joined many Republicans running in 2020 he adopted an anti-Socialism platform.