Archive for January, 2009

Mr. Jenkins Goes to St. Paul

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Brian Jenkins, who challenged Orrin Hatch for the Republican nomination as candidate for  U.S. Senate in 2006 and ran for the Republican nomination as candidate for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District in 2008, gives the following account of his experience last year as a Utah delegate to the Republican ...

Automatic Delegates

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

[As published in the Daily Herald on Tuesday, 27 May 2008 in response to a column in this section a week ago by party officials Stan Lockhart and Marian Monnahan.] Mr. Lockhart and Ms. Monnahan brag about the "strong representation" in UT County. The leadership of the party is so strong ...

Convention-al Wisdom

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Convention-al Wisdom Should Utah's caucus/convention system be retained, or scrapped? Utah is one of the few remaining states that still use the caucus/convention system for political parties to winnow their candidates down to one per public office. The system used to be almost universal, but has been abandoned in favor of the ...