A straw poll was held last night at the Cache County Reupblican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner. Here are the results:
1. Mike Lee – 102
2. Bob Bennett – 97
3. Tim Bridgewater – 44
4. Merrill Cook – 6
5. Cherilyn Eagar – 5
That means 62% did not vote for Bob Bennett, and since the convention is multiple round balloting, that is enough for a challenger to defeat Bennett in the convention (that is if Cache County is representative of the rest of the state).
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Coming up on March 23rd, 2010 is one of the most important nights of this election year. On caucus night state delegates are elected who will then represent their precincts at the state conventions. The state conventions are where the party candidates are chosen. It is a multiple round ballot system and if a candidate receives 60% of the votes he/she automatically receives the party nomination. There is a lot of talk about the possibility of Senator Bob Bennett being defeated at the convention, so it is important that liberty minded individuals show up to their caucus meeting.
YOU MUST BE REGISTERED AS A MEMBER OF A PARTY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAUCUS. I suggest you register as a member of the dominant party in your area.
UtahRising.com has put together a good system for educating Utahns on how to become a state delegate.
If you don’t know your caucus location, contact your county clerk HERE.
Former congressman Merrill Cook will throw his hat into the ring of Republican candidates for Bob Bennett’s U.S. Senate seat. Check out this article from the Salt Lake Tribune for more information: ARTICLE
Whether any of Bennett’s challengers will be able beat the Bennett machine (which has already spent over $2 million) remains to be seen, but these headlines are good news for the other candidates, especially Mike Lee who picked up another big endorsement.
Social media is having more and more influence on political campaigns. We decided to take a look at who has gained the most followers from sites like Facebook and Twitter;
It looks like the field of candidates for Bob Bennett’s senate seat is complete. Running for the Republican nomination are: 3-term incumbent Bob Bennett, James Williams, Cherilyn Eagar, Tim Bridgewater, and Mike Lee. The sole Democrat running is Sam Granato.
James Williams is a small business owner and lives in South Jordan with his wife Jen.
Cherilyn Eagar owns an internet marketing company with her husband and resides in Holladay.
Mike Lee is an attorney who resides in Alpine with his wife and children. He was a clerk for supreme court justice Samuel Alito and is the son of former solicitor general Rex Lee.
Tim Bridgewater is a venture capitalist and lives in Provo with his wife and four children.
Bob Bennett has been Utah’s junior Senator since 1991.
Sam Granato is a businessman and restauranteur from Salt Lake City and is the only Democrat in the race.
You may have noticed that there has been very little written here on Utah’sRepresentatives.com about Utah’s 3rd congressional district representative Jason Chaffetz. That’s probably because we like him, and he has done very little that we disagree with. The recent release of TSA documents on an incident involving Chaffetz passing through airport security is an exception.
Congressman Chaffetz claimed he was singled out for refusing to participate in the full body scanner, and for his efforts to ban the use of the technology. The write ups of 8 separate TSA employees involved in the incident tell a different story. From what the documents say, it seems Chaffetz was acting like a 7 year old kid who hasn’t had his nap. He reportedly swore at one security employee and childishly criticized another while claiming the whole time that he was being singled out. He also repeatedly asked, “do you know who I am?”
I don’t know whether this shows Rep. Chaffetz is already being poisoned by Washington, or if he was just having a bad day, but I do know that we have to keep a close eye on our representatives, EVEN THE ONES WE LIKE.
It seems Senator Bob Bennett’s support of TARP (troubled asset relief program) is paying off in a big way. Bennett’s 2nd largest donor for the 2010 election cycle is CitiGroup, who has donated over $30,000 to the Senator’s 2010 campaign. Citi also coincidentally received $45 billion from TARP and other programs. Bennett’s seat on the Senate Banking committee makes him very influential in bank bailouts.
Senator Bennett has also received donations from other banks that were given TARP money:
Senator Bob Bennett brought home the bacon again. This time he did it by carving $5 million from the military’s operating budget. The $5 million will be given to a Utah company called Storyrock to make scrapbook DVDs for soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The DVDs sure sound warm and fuzzy but when you realize this is taking away $5 million worth of weapons, equipment, and food from our military, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a good idea. One Pentagon official said, ““Every dollar that we are forced to spend on things which we do not need requires us to take money from things which we do need. And the people who lose in that trade-off are our troops and the taxpayers.”
A straw poll was held last night at the Cache County Reupblican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner. Here are the results:
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You may have noticed that there has been very little written here on Utah’sRepresentatives.com about Utah’s 3rd congressional district representative Jason Chaffetz. That’s probably because we like him, and he has done very little that we disagree with. The recent release of TSA documents on an incident involving Chaffetz passing through airport security is an exception.
The DVDs sure sound warm and fuzzy but when you realize this is taking away $5 million worth of weapons, equipment, and food from our military, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a good idea. One Pentagon official said, “
