The
Salt Lake Tribute reported last week that Utah Rep. Chris Cannon defeated
challenger Matt Throckmorton in the 3rd U.S. Congressional District
Republican primary. Throckmorton
had heavily criticized Cannon’s support of a bill that would grant temporary
“guest worker” status to certain groups of foreign agricultural workers.
Throckmorton garnered the support of several groups that seek to restrict
immigration. One of those groups,
ProjectUSA, had threatened to challenge the primary votes of some foreign-born
residents.