A 10-year-old cleared the political path Friday for the 123-million-year-old Utahraptor to claw its way closer to becoming the official state dinosaur.
In rapid-fire-fashion testimony, young Kenyon Roberts rattled off reason after reason to pass SB43 to make that new designation — persuading the Senate Economic Development Committee to vote unanimously for it. It now goes to the full Senate.
Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, said that Kenyon — son of GOP activist Jeremy Roberts — persuaded him during a diner between their families to sponsor the bill. Kenyon quickly showed how he did it.
He added, “This dinosaur was a theropod.