Actions loud at the GOP convention

Housekeeper invited the automatic delegates to sit in the designated row. Some complied. Then she asked the 10 if they wouldn't mind sitting out the vote.

The group included Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert. Herbert raised his hand and, according to Deseret News reporter Ethan Thomas, said, "I'm one of those delegates and I'm going to exercise my right to vote."

Herbert's intervention effectively ended the insurrection. Daw barely earned more than 60 percent of the vote, eliminating Housekeeper, who is contesting the outcome.

Complaints about Utah County Republican Party officers by Housekeeper, deGaston and other challengers to local incumbents were buoyed leading up to the convention by some Salt Lake-area party members.

Utah Republican National Committeewoman Nancy Lord called for unnamed county GOP officers involved in stacking the deck for incumbents to resign in a guest editorial she wrote with Mike Ridgeway and submitted to the Provo Daily Herald.

The Herald did not print the opinion piece.

As frightening as pump prices are right now, how would you like to pay $10 a gallon?

Brigham Young University economics professor Michael Ransom told KUTV News that isn't likely but that some experts believe worldwide demand could drive prices to $7 to $10 a gallon by 2011.

Can we all get a FrontRunner spur to our doorsteps?

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Utah County Bureau Chief Tad Walch lives with his wife and five children in Provo, their home for the past 21 years. Please e-mail twalch@desnews.com.