'We're not going away': Polygamous groups march to Capitol to protest bill

SALT LAKE CITY — Joe Darger recalled the homage paid last month to the legacy of Martha Hughes Cannon, the Utah woman who was the first ever female U.S. senator.

Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, honored Hughes on the opening day of the 2017 Utah Legislature, saying Utahns should be proud of what she accomplished. Hughes appears on this year's state Senate commemorative coin.

"I thought, 'What the irony,'" said Darger, who has three wives, and was among an estimated 300 people from Utah's polygamist communities to gather Friday on the steps of the state Capitol in a show of opposition to HB99.

"You know what? (Hughes) ran against her husband, and she beat him," he told the crowd. "And she was one of six plural wives."

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