1. Jim Dabakis is an American politician from Salt Lake City, Utah.
16 Facts About Jim Dabakis
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Jim Dabakis was sent to the San Francisco bay area as a missionary.
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Jim Dabakis dropped out of BYU, and later became a talk-radio and TV host in Salt Lake City.
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Jim Dabakis is the host of a local TV show in Salt Lake City called UP with Jim Dabakis.
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One of the co-founders of Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center, Jim Dabakis is openly gay.
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Senator Jim Dabakis started his political career when he co-founded the Utah Pride Center and Equality Utah.
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Jim Dabakis was elected chair of the Utah Democratic Party in July 2011.
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Jim Dabakis has made outreach to Mormons a focus of his tenure at the head of the party.
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In 2014, Jim Dabakis stepped down as state party chair for health reasons and to spend more time with his husband, Stephen.
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Jim Dabakis was appointed to the Utah Senate by Democratic delegates in December 2012, following the election of senator Ben McAdams to the mayoralty of Salt Lake County.
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Senator Jim Dabakis has his own caucus, called the Jim Dabakis Kakis.
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Jim Dabakis holds weekly meetings to keep people updated on the legislative session.
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Jim Dabakis has a blog during the legislative session: dabakisdiary.
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In October 2015, Jim Dabakis started a TV show and a PAC for liberals in Utah called Utah Progressives.
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Jim Dabakis unsuccessfully ran in the 2019 Salt Lake City mayoral election.
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Senator Jim Dabakis sponsored bill SB141 in 2016, which sought to alter one of Utah's peculiar liquor laws, specifically it would remove Zion Curtains from restaurants.