From Deseret News archives:
2 vie for Provo House seat
Field of 10 narrowed; names go to governor
Huntsman will meet today with the two finalists, gun-range manufacturer John Curtis and entrepreneur Chris Herrod. Huntsman's chief of staff, Mike Mower, said the governor's goal is to make a decision soon to give the new legislator as much time as possible to prepare for the 2007 session that begins Jan. 15.
Curtis and Herrod finished in a virtual dead heat, 37-36, on the final ballot Tuesday night at Rock Canyon Elementary School, but the finalists were the biggest surprise, not the closeness of the race.
The owner of Action Target, a Provo business, Curtis ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat in 2000 against state Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, but a far more recent act clearly miffed some delegates Tuesday night: Curtis didn't register as a Republican until Nov. 30, nearly two months after Alexander announced he would give up his seat in the Utah House and the same day news reports announced the process to replace him.
If neither of the two final candidates at a convention manages to win 60 percent of the vote, the result is a primary. In this case, the decision goes to the governor's desk.
Curtis said he disclosed his past to the delegates of House District 62 and told them he was a lifelong Republican who only switched parties in an effort to give Utah County voters more choices at the ballot box.
"I've been a Republican my whole life," he said. "I joined a dramatic attempt to align the Utah County Democratic Party with Utah County values, and we changed the county party platform to reflect personal responsibility and to a pro-life position. My values have never changed. My beliefs have never changed."
Curtis had switched his voter registration to unaffiliated last spring, county GOP chair Marian Monnahan said.
Herrod was a political unknown who was stunned at making the last ballot in a race that included former state Sen. Chuck Stewart, well-known attorney and rare books collector Brent Ashworth and former Provo City Councilman Paul Warner.
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