There is a simple, obvious, and true answer: the governor is a politician without much knowledge about this issue, and is under enormous pressure from the MSM. This is how the MSM exerts a very large amount of control in this country. They choose the issues, frame the issues, and report on how the politicians react to their views of the issues.
Politicians live and die by how the media treat them.
So your sating the Governor of Utah is simply too stupid to know most of his states population id inclined to watch Foxnews not MSNBC.