Convention Results....

The Utah County Convention was held today at Mountain View High School. This was the view as the Delegates attempted to enter the building.

After being Credentialed, most Delegates heard from our leaders in the Legislative District. John Dougall was officially made the party Candidate for LD 27. He spoke and took questions during this time.

During the Senate portion of the Convention, Senator Howard Stephenson and the other Candidate for Senate 11 took 5 minutes to talk about why they should be elected. This was not required of Senator Stephenson, but he offered the opportunity to Mr. Dwayne Nielsen. Following their remarks, Senator Stephenson gave a Legislative report on several issues that he felt were of importance this last legislative session.

Then the General Session began.


Representative Jason Chaffetz was awarded the Ronald Regan Award for Distinguished Service.

All the Candidates for County positions were nominated and gave a 3 minute speech to the delegates.



All of our Delegates (including the "inadequate" photographer...the Hi02 Secretary) listened intently.

The First Ballot was cast.

The Delegates were favored to hear from Neil Walter and Morgan Philpot who are challenging Representative Scott Mattheson.

We heard from Governor Herbert who was rushing off, with other elected officials to attend a funeral in Salt Lake City. As he is a former Utah County Commissioner, he was well received. The other candidates for Governor did not speak today.

All of the candidates for US Senate were also heard from.

Prior to the second Ballot, a Straw poll for US Senate was taken. The results are as follows:

Mike Lee: 41%
Cherilyn Eager: 22%
Tim Bridgewater: 18%
Bob Bennett: 15%

In regard to the balloting, the following are the results:

County Commissioner B: Doug Whitney
County Assessor: Kris Poulson
County Recorder: Primary between Rod Campbell and Jeff Smith
County Surveyor: Gary Ratcliff
County Comissioner A: Primary between Gary Anderson and Joel Wright.
County Sheriff: James Tracy

Overall, this convention was attended by over 90% of the Delegates who were elected. This is indeed a very important Election Year.