Former Utah House Speaker Marty Stephens is returning to the state Capitol — this time as the chief lobbyist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Urquhart complained that the Mormon church “is seemingly incapable of finding the front door and walking through it. It doesn’t bother lobbying rank-and-file members or going on record in committee meetings like other political participants do; instead, it whispers to a few members of Republican leadership, and things magically happen.”