Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said Friday that Californians fleeing high taxes, crime, and other problems shouldn’t relocate to Utah, which has been the fastest-growing state over the past decade and faces a housing and water crunch.
“We would love for people to stay in California instead of coming as refugees to Utah,” Cox said in remarks to reporters on Feb. 10 in Washington after a meeting of governors with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House.
Forty-five governors were in town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, a bipartisan organization representing the nation’s governors….