Challengers to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert attacked him from the left and right Thursday as a career politician who stopped listening to people. The governor countered that he has a strong record that improved Utah’s economy and schools.
That came in a joint appearance by the four top candidates for governor — Democrats Mike Weinholtz and Vaughn Cook, and Republicans Herbert and Jonathan Johnson — at a luncheon where the Utah Foundation unveiled results of a poll showing what Utah voters list as their top 10 concerns this election year.
The survey said those issues, in order, are: health care, air quality, education, state taxes and government spending, jobs and the economy, water supply and quality, crime, partisan politics, homelessness and poverty, and the environment.
On the top issue of health care, the Democrats bashed Herbert for not taking advantage of “Obamacare” funding to fully expand Medicaid — while Johnson complained Herbert tried too much to follow President Barack Obama’s wishes.
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