The "Utah Republican Party rejects the escalating encroachment of the national government into state affairs," one says. And Republican officeholders who don't abide by a states-rights approach should be held accountable "at the ballot box."

The Utah GOP must change its internal rules so that no Republican officeholders or their immediate families may be national GOP delegates, or endorse any national candidates. The resolution comes after most of the Utah 2008 national delegates (many of them officeholders) failed to vote for Mitt Romney, like 90 percent of Utah GOP presidential-primary voters wanted, and instead "were forced" by party insiders to vote for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who by the September national convention had wrapped up the nomination.

The resolution says: "Public officials, or their immediate family members, who disregard these rules (should) be stripped of delegate status and barred from state party conventions for two years."

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