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Utah County GOP chooses new leadership

Joel Wright | 3:05 p.m. April 25, 2009

Final results from today's Utah County GOP Elections:

President: Oldroyd 440 and Diamond 391

Vice President: Cluff 415 and Nelson 405

Secretary: Shepherd 484, Thompson 307 and Kuder 32

Treasurer: Taylor 592 and Smith 246

Congrats to all the winners - we expect great things from you!

Anonymous | 3:08 p.m. April 25, 2009

Utah County's own Politburo!

Chuck | 4:13 p.m. April 25, 2009

Excellent choices. I wish them good luck!

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Don Garlitz | 6:18 p.m. April 25, 2009

Congratulations to our new leadership. I offer a special congratulations to Lisa Shepherd. I had intended to vote for Mr. Thompson prior to convention, but was persuaded to vote for Lisa after she pointed out that she had sought no endorsements from elected officials, yet Mr. Thompson had secured the endorsement of every elected official in the County, a practice prohibited in our bylaws. Good for you Lisa, I hope this fact is not lost on our party representatives.

arc | 10:45 p.m. April 25, 2009

Can someone tell me why Chris Cannon was speaking?

arc | 6:41 a.m. April 26, 2009

I found out, the Herald had it...

Libertarian | 8:18 a.m. April 26, 2009

How quaint to have senator Bennett quote the battle of Yorktown and talk about George Washington as he sells the U.S. down the pike with his chairmanship of the Transatlantic Policy Network being secretly put together by him and a cabal of other senators, who's goal of cource is to join the United states with the European Union finanialy, can you say globalism Senator?

to Libertarian | 10:01 a.m. April 26, 2009

You are not kidding. One Senate Dem praised Bennett recently for being so easy to work with on the TPN issue. It is SO past time for him to be recalled.....

Lisa Shepherd | 4:22 a.m. April 27, 2009

To clarify this article, I was elected as the secretary, not treasurer.

Thank you, Don. I did not accept any endorsements even though some were offered. I wanted to be unencumbered as the Party Secretary and I am. The only endorsement I sought was that of the delegates and I believe I got a solid endorsement from them for both elections I was a candidate for (Secretary and State Central Committee member).

A conflict of interest is not good for any elected official in the party leadership, but especially the secretary. It is my duty to ensure a fair and open election for every contested race, Constitution, Bylaw, or Platform change. Fair for the incumbent, challenger, and Party document change proposer. I never want anyone to feel they didn't get a fair opportunity.

I now have about 1200 bosses in my volunteer position and I love it.

Any who have felt disenfranchised from our party, I ask you to come back and make a difference in our county! We want you!

Former Republican | 6:55 a.m. April 27, 2009

Let's see if I get this right? Barak Obama is trying to fix the financial and foreign policy disaster created by former President Bush. Chavetz and his "fellow terrorists" are openly fighting against the current President of the United States. When I served in the US military, we called that TREASON!

Sorry Lisa, but I am not returning to this Republican Party. The party of NO has got to GO!

Dan H | 8:19 a.m. April 27, 2009

To "Former Republican"

So, President Obama's idea to fix the economy is not only to institute W's policies but put them on steroids? Bush increased the size/scope/spending of the government and Obama wants to triple what Bush did. Does that make sense? Has that ever worked?

Why is Utah ranked a the #1 ranked state gov in the country? Because we don't spend more than we take in. That is why Utah is supposed to recover from the downturn faster than any other state. Obama could learn a thing or two from Utah.

homers_84606 | 8:31 a.m. April 27, 2009

To Former Republican: political opposition as treason? You need to go read the definition of treason. Political discourse and the "tension" between groups opposed to each other is the basis of the constitution and the reason this system of government has worked, more or less, for 220 years. Political opposition as treason? That is a strange way to look at it. Under your definition, any political party out of power that is trying to regain power, through the political system, is guilty of treason. That is nonsense.

Craig | 10:00 a.m. April 27, 2009

Active duty military personnel fighting against the president of the US would be treason but not so for a private citizen. I suspect you know that but were just trying to stir the pot a little.

To "Former Republican" | 10:36 a.m. April 27, 2009

First to clarify, to work as a civil servant in the bookkeeping department of now closed Norton AFB, is not to have "served in the military".

Second thought, no, in fact you didn't get it right. Rather, your disingenuous comments were typical liberal democrat babel and without regard to a focus on reality nor a discourse of reason.

B Hussein Obama is doing nothing to fix the financial mess. Please refer back to your Econ 101 textbook on Macroeconomics. A 10 Trillion dollar deficit in ten years will forever bind our children to a debt they can never dig out of. What he is doing is to increase the number of non-tax paying citizens from the current 50% (which you are obviously a member) to a 60% margin so that fiscally irresponsible democrats can rule the newly planned Socialist States of America into economic ruin, moral decay and a militarily weak country. God help us before that happens.

Thanks, I guess, for asking anyway.

Former Republican | 4:55 p.m. April 27, 2009

The party of no included Hoover and Bush, who both ruined the economy with greed and unbridled markets. Obama has no choice by use methods proven by FDR to restart the economy. Those who claim FDR's new deal did not revive the economy claim WWII did revive the economy, so big government spending was not enough, it took huge government spending.

Political opposition is one thing, undermining the success of the president at the expense of the country is another. Listening to Republican leaders makes their goal obvious, undermine Obama's efforts, make the mess worse, so they get back into power. Fighting the president to drag down the country is treasonous in my book.

And yes, I was carrying an M-16 overseas while you were safe at home. Being strong on defense requires more than rhetoric, you actually have to sign-up and serve.

I would love to see the Republican party learn from their recent national loss and moderate, but it appears that the hard right turn that destroyed McCain's campaign will destroy the party. Sad, they once had so many good ideas.

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