Just when you thought election season was over, here come the falling dominoes caused by the election of Ben McAdams to Congress.
Because the midterm elections were, well, in the middle of McAdams' four-year term as the mayor of Salt Lake County, he didn’t have to give up one office to run for another. Now that the Democrat has — barely — pushed aside Republican Rep. Mia Love for Utah’s 4th Congressional District spot, McAdams will be giving up the mayor’s chair early next month.
That triggers a replacement process that, by state law, empowers the central committee of the party that held the office to pick someone to fill the spot for the remaining two years.