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SALT LAKE CITY — Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to be in Utah on Thursday to attend a private fundraiser for his wife and meet with a group of business leaders.
Barry and Amy Baker will host a noon fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in their home in a gated community in Park City. Barry Baker is a senior adviser to a private equity and venture capital firm. Amy Baker used to work for NBC News. The couple has hosted the Clinton fundraisers before.
The cost to attend is $1,000, $10,000 for VIP access, and around $33,000 to serve as a co-host.
Prominent Salt Lake developer and Democrat Kem Gardner is slated to assemble a small group of business leaders for a nonpartisan roundtable discussion with Bill Clinton later in the afternoon.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment, saying it doesn't release information on fundraisers and that the former president doesn't have any open press events.
Bill Clinton's trip to Utah comes a day after Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed piece for the Deseret News in an unprecedented appeal to Mormon voters. Though the latest poll has Republican Donald Trump leading in Utah, Democrats have a chance to win the state for the first time in more than 50 years.
In the column, Clinton promises to defend religious freedom, saying she would carry out that "sacred" responsibility as president. She mentions the infamous 1838 Mormon extermination order, and invokes the names of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith and current President Thomas S. Monson. She also quotes Mitt Romney on Trump and cites Gov. Gary Herbert's willingness to welcome Syrian refugees to the state.
