Although this is not an official endorsement (just yet), I will say that I am very excited for this race and feel that Diane Turner has a chance to upset Councilman Wilde by less than 1,000 votes. This time she is honed and experienced at running, and I have been very impressed with the campaign [...]
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Primary Predictions
It is that time again, where I look into my extremely cloudy crystal ball and make some predictions about the upcoming primary election taking place next week. If you are able, please be sure to vote; turnout is expected to be abysmally small, so your voice really can make a difference. I have provided links [...]
Tales from the Salt Lake County Convention
I must admit that it was somewhat refreshing to go to a convention and not have to actually worry about hocking a campaign or idea. No, I could, for the first time in years, simply be a delegate and take in the entirety of the days events. For those of you who did not attend, [...]
Running for office? Keep it local.
Please note, if you are running for office and you decide to do a robo-call as part of your campaign, please make sure that the area code on the number calling me is from Utah – a certain candidate up for election tomorrow has now placed four calls to me from a 202 area code. [...]
Congratulations West Jordan!
Your comically low voter turnout of 6.1% proves that you really do care about democracy! Yes, yes, it is an off year, and yes it is a primary, but good lord, average turnout was still above 10% for the valley. But, man, the extra 15 minutes of sleep were worth it. You know, it was [...]
Governor Herbert? Part I – 2012 Election Ramifications
The news that is rippling through the Utah political scene today is the announcement by President Obama that he has tapped Governor Huntsman to be the U.S.’s ambassador to China. The ramifications of this still remain to be seen but, needless to say, they are many – both nationally and state-wide. Let us begin with [...]
Congratulations to Laura Arellano – 2nd Vice Chair of the Salt Lake County Democrats
It is not often in politics that you can loose a race, yet feel like you have won – today, I am happy to announce that Laura Arellano is the new Second Vice Chair of the County Democrats. During my run for Second Vice Chair, I always had a hunch that the race would come [...]
Haring for 2nd Vice Chair – The Importance of Meeting
If there is one thing I know I know about Democrats in Utah, it is that many of us feel isolated and shy away from political debate as to avoid pointing out the fact that we are liberal and that we don’t think Mitt Romney is the savior of the republic. Why is this? Richard [...]
Haring for 2nd Vice Chair – On Early Candidate Recruitment
This past November we participated in the classic tradition of voting; In Salt Lake County we made some strong advances and made progress in getting Democrats elected to all levels of government. Indeed, we have seen good work out of Jay Seegmiller, Trisha Beck, Laura Black, and Jani Iwamoto, just to name a few – [...]
Haring for 2nd Vice Chair – On Targeting
As part of my lead up to the election of Salt Lake County 2nd Vice Chair, I have decided to start a series of posts on specific platform positions that I am running on – hopefully I can get your support. Targeting of Races For far too long, the Salt Lake County Democrats have been [...]
