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The Salt Lake County Republican Party has a rule that any elected official who lives in the county is automatically a delegate to the county and state convention. Unfortunately, the party did not follow its own rules, and two members of Congress are now out in the cold.
According to reporting from the Salt Lake Tribune, Sen. Mitt Romney and Rep. Burgess Owens were left out of the Salt Lake County GOP’s official list of delegates that was submitted to the state ahead of the party’s state convention this weekend.
The party has a rule that any elected official who lives in the county is automatically a delegate to the county and state convention. Unfortunately, the party didn’t follow its own rules and the two members were left out of the list that included over 950 delegates.
It’s debated whether Romney and Owen’s absence is a mistake or if it was done purposefully. Newly elected party chair Chris Null says the snubs went unnoticed until after the April 22 deadline for submitting delegate lists. He said the Republican party will “make every effort to ensure this does not happen again.”
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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. Congressman candidate Blake Moore says he s willing to work with Democrats on an infrastructure package, but he s not interested in raising corporate taxes to pay for it.
| April 16, 2021, 7:31 p.m.
Republican Rep. Blake Moore says he’s interested in working with Democrats to fund needed infrastructure, especially if it will benefit parts of his district.
“Ogden has a rapid transit system coming in that’s going to be really great for students. Park City may get the Olympics again, so there may be some ways we can support that and tourism,” he said on this week’s Utah Politics podcast. “There’s lots of that stuff that can get put into highway bills, so I’ll absolutely work with the Democrats.”
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Last weekend, five women were elected chairs of their county Republican parties. In Salt Lake County, though, another man took up the seat, even after complaints about former party officials bullying women. The new chair said he’s working on involving more women in the party.
Several county Republican parties in Utah have new leaders after their elections last weekend. Five women were chosen to chair their parties but not in Salt Lake County.
After news broke about
bullying toward women in the Salt Lake County GOP which was followed by the former chair’s resignation some Utah Republicans called for more women in party leadership positions.