A state employee is making a play for the congressional seat opening up with the retirement of U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop.
Jamie Cheek, an Ogden resident, says she’s running on a progressive platform, calling for student debt forgiveness and free college tuition and classifying health care and living wages as human rights
"Our great nation is built on the promise of progress, on the principle of equality, and on the passion for justice," Cheek, 33, said in a YouTube video introducing her candidacy. "We now find ourselves at a fork in the road where each of us must decide which side of history we are going to be on when the dust settles on 2020.