In the video, recorded at the Council for National Policy’s 40th Anniversary Meeting in May and posted on Twitter and YouTube, Adams, R-Layton, responded to a question about how state legislatures are handling corporate blowback from laws targeting cultural issues like abortion and transgender athletes participating in girls’ sports.
He said someone had texted him an article referencing Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell’s displeasure with a pair of resolutions opposing the teaching of critical race theory approved by the Utah House and Senate just one day earlier.
“When you get very popular sports stars like that that are pushing back, we’ve got work to do to try and educate them. Let’s go tell him what we’re doing because I don’t think he really understands what happened,” Adams said.