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Jason Chaffetz renounces automatic delegate position

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

I've got some great exclusive news to share with you all. I had an amazing phone conversation with  Rep. Jason Chaffetz recently. In an unprecedented move, he told me that he renounced his automatic delegate (Ex Officio) position with the Utah County Republican Party. "Just because I'm a Congressman doesn't mean ...

Guess who was Counting Ballots at the Utah County Republican Convention?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

As a State Central Committee member and a candidate for the SCC at the April 25th Utah County Convention, I would like to give my personal observations on one of the issues Steve Diamond brought up in his "items we must still attend to" email last week: the State Central ...

Do your homework and choose wisely

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I voted for Mitt Romney in the Presidential Primary. Last August, just prior to the Republican National Convention, I attended an emergency meeting of Utah's Republican State Central Committee. As a member of that committee, I was asked to come and vote on whether or not Utah should release its national ...

The Negative Aspects of Multiculturalism

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

The Negative Aspects of Multiculturalism ©   By Russell Sias In the United States, the issue of multiculturalism has been largely ignored.  At the very least, it has either been inappropriately represented or misunderstood for years, perhaps both.  As citizens, we have allowed ourselves to be convinced ...

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 ...

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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