Kevin Stacy Garn (born January 14, 1955) is an American politician and former Republican majority leader of the Utah Representative Council. Until his resignation on March 13, 2010, after personal disclosure, he represented District 16 in Utah, which included Davis County, Utah.
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Kevin Garn was born in Ogden, Utah and graduated from Layton High School. Garn attended Weber State University. He stopped to focus on his business, KSG Distributing, a music and movie distribution company he started while still in high school.
Garn founded Pegasus Music and Video, a music and retail store, in 1985 after buying a store in Bountiful. Pegasus expanded from one location to thirteen stores across Utah and in Montana, and Idaho. Garn sold Pegasus to Wherehouse Entertainment in 1993.
In 2004, Kevin Garn, in partnership with Layton and Davis County, developed the Davis Conference Center, a 43,000 square foot multipurpose conference center connected to Hilton Gardens.
Since 2000, Garn has served as chairman of the board for The First National Bank of Layton.
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Political career
Garn was first involved in politics in 1989 when Franklin Knowlton, a family friend and politician, retired from the Utah Representative Council. Knowlton asked Garn to run for the empty 16th District seat. Garn won the seat in 1990.
Garn served in the Utah House of Representatives from January 1, 1991, until June 19, 2002, and continued his service on January 1, 2007. Garn served as Whip's Majority Assistant in 1995 and 1996. In 2002, Garn ran for the position of the Utah District's first congress House of Representatives of the United States, but lost the Republican primary to Rob Bishop. For the 2009-2010 legislative sessions, he served in the House of Representatives forming the Business and Employment and Ethics Committee and the Joint Joint Subcommittee for Public Education Allocation.
Resignation
At the close of the 2010 legislative session, Garn admitted to meeting naked with a minor woman, Cheryl Maher, in a hot tub when she was 28. Garn paid Maher $ 150,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement in 2002 when she threatened to expose incidents during a congressional campaign US failed. Maher, who was a company employee of Garn at the time, told the press that Garn lied about his lack of physical contact but did not elaborate. Garn, who was married at the time, denied the activity went beyond sitting naked in a hot tub but called the incident "clearly inappropriate". Maher wrote to LDS Church president Thomas S. Monson asking the church to seek action against Garn, who served as bishop and Sunday school teacher at the LDS Church. The LDS Church responded to the letter by saying, "The 2008 letter sent by Maher to the Church headquarters was referred to the local ecclesiastical leader to be addressed, and the discipline issue of the Church was handled locally and not at Church headquarters." Garn resigned from the House of Representatives on March 13, 2010, and the Davis County Republican chose entrepreneur Stephen G. Handy to replace Garn on April 11; Useful work with Garn in Layton City Council. Handy was inaugurated four days later. Maher was killed in a murder-suicide in New Hampshire in July 2011.
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