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Krista Hughes: George Pyle speaks as a man from the cheap seats and never in the arena

Greg Hughes has never been our average Utah politician and, as his wife, I will add, he’s not the average person.

His upbringing was rough, his circumstances humble. He was raised by a single mother when she could, aunt or grandmother when she couldn’t. He experienced cold nights and eviction from more than one home. As a child, he often went to bed hungry because he had no money for food. Stability and constancy were things about which he could only dream.

At 16, he was in a car accident and was told he’d likely not walk without assistance ever again.