I’m in the fight.
I want a Utah where my son can afford to raise a family. That’s going to take conservative values at all levels of government, which only the caucus and convention system can give us.
Utah is the only state with a truly republican form of government - representative democracy all the way down to the grassroots.
This system has been under threat for over 10 years since SB54 was signed into law, but last year was the first year when the problems became too obvious to ignore - even for the average voter. We are the only red state with universal mail in voting. Until just this legislative session, we didn’t even require photo ID to vote. The legislature’s election audit last fall found 1,400 dead people on the voter rolls, and nearly 60% of clerks didn’t conduct post-election audits.
But the party doesn’t manage its own voter rolls, it doesn’t print election ballots, and it doesn’t even control who can run as a Republican. We talk a lot about taking back control of our party, but the truth is it will require significant sums of money and strong, organized processes and data systems. We need a chair who can raise the money to accomplish this and a Secretary who knows systems and technology. That Secretary is me.
I’m a former CEO of a tech company turned operational consultant. In the last two years I have fulfilled all of my campaign promises:
I said the delegates would hear from us regularly —> I launched the Delegate Dispatch, a quarterly newsletter.
I said that we’d stop recreating the wheel —> I updated the Party’s Operations Manual, which hadn’t been updated since 2016.
I said we need clear rules to facilitate leadership transfers —> I spent 100 hours going through our bylaws and proposing nearly 30 operational and technical improvements to the SCC.
I said we needed to attract a younger, broader group of Republicans —> I hired a logo designer and presented a new logo to the SCC, which it approved.
I said we needed better data security and information sharing —> We launched a new website that is more secure and easier to use.
If the party is going to take back control of its own destiny, we need an operations leader who knows how to execute large projects. I’m the only candidate in this race with the experience and the track record to get it done.
