With the November 6, 2012 election "looming" a "mere" 239 days from now, the Standard-Examiner zooms in on the first murmurings of local political activity, with a couple of morning stories reporting on those candidates who've already taken advantage of Utah's now open one-week candidate filing window. Here's the lede from the S-E's main story:
OGDEN — Weber County’s first filers in the 2012 election were mostly incumbents, including several legislators who made it down despite being up late Thursday night for the Legislature’s final day in session.You can catch Charles Trentelman's full S-E writeup here:Friday was the first day to file for elective office in Utah, ranging from the U.S. Congress to local school boards and county commission seats.
Candidates have until 5 p.m. Thursday to file.
In the second story, the Standard puts a special focus on the Senate District 20 race, where incumbent GOP State Senator Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City has already drawn a couple of challengers, namely Democratic Party candidate Sunset City Councilman Brent Andrews.
Read Mr. Saxton's full S-E story here:
As regular WCF readers will recall, Senator Jenkins suffered a serious "foot-in-mouth" political problem in mid February, when he railed on the Senate floor about SB116, and Senate resolution, SJR8, which called for a constitutional amendment to allow property tax waiver for national guardsmen on active duty, an amendment which would add a "whopping $1.o3 to the average Utah residential property owner's annual property tax bill, if enacted by the voters in November." Some political wonks would predict, following this public gaffe in a Senate District populated by a large active-duty and retired military demographic, the not-so-glib Senator Jenkins may now be, candidacy-wise, "low hanging fruit," as a result.
For Sen. Allen Christensen's District 19 Senate seat, take a look at the challenge of former Ogden City Council candidate, the Libertarian Party's 2012 State Senate candidate, Courtney White.
There's also one more Weber County race upon which we'd like to focus our attention. We were delighted to learn this morning from the first linked SE story that current Weber County GOP Chairman Matt Bell has entered the Weber County Commission race, in the hope of filling departing Commissioner Dearden's soon to be vacated Commission seat. Your blogmeister worked elbow to elbow with Matt in connection with Weber County politics over the course of the better part of two decades. If you're looking for a candidate who combines the traits of intelligence, honesty, strong work ethic, high ethical character and the ability to work well with others, you'll have to look long and hard to find a better Commission candidate.
Speaking of the race for Commissioner Dearden's seat, we have it on good and reliable authority that yet another possibly dark-horse GOP candidate will be entering the Commission race very soon... This guy, believe it or not.
No, we are not making this up.
It gets interestinger and interestinger, dunnit?
Update 3/11/12 10:00 a.m.: The Standard announces the imminent candidate filing of another Weber County incumbent, this time for state-level office:
Sodden query: Was last week's Dee Smith press conference stunt nothing more than cheap pre-election political posturing?
Update 3/12/12 8:30 a.m.: We received an email this morning with a link to Democratic Party 1st District Congressonal candidate Ryan Combe's campaign website. Be sure to check it out:
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If you're looking for a candidate who combines the traits of intelligence, honesty, strong work ethic, high ethical character and the ability to work well with others, you'll have to look long and hard to find a better Commission candidate."
But... I thought you said he was a Utah Republican?
I am waiting for Gayle Ruzicka(Eagle Forum) to announce her bid for governor. After all she tells the legislature what to do and her support or nonsupport of a bill is the most crucial determination of the bills chance of success. If she is going to control the Republican party the least she can do is let people have the chance to elect her to the office of governor.
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