Their families were friends for years, going to movies, dinners and sporting events together. Then they ignored the proverb that friends should never talk about religion or politics, and politics blasted apart their relationship.
GOP Rep. Mia Love and her Democratic challenger Ben McAdams aren’t behaving like buddies anymore. They’re too busy hammering away at each other in the nastiest campaign in recent memory in Utah.
Despite that, Salt Lake County Mayor McAdams still says, “I consider Representative Love a friend.”
Love says his choice to run against her “feels like a betrayal,” and “my friends don’t lie about me” — as she says he does.