Archive for January, 2009
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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