A local Utah bookstore canceled an exclusive partnership with Republican Gov. Spencer Cox to promote his upcoming book on political peacemaking after receiving backlash from its Salt Lake City customers.
Cox had announced the partnership on Thursday. The deal would provide signed copies of “Off Ramp: How to be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt,” if they were preordered through The King’s English Bookshop.
On Saturday, the deal was no more. The store’s owners, Anne Holman and Calvin Crosby, posted a video statement on social media saying they had heard, and were listening to, the “impassioned responses” of their customers…