UT County GOP Credential Cmte - Stacked against you

Don't ever waste your time placing a credential challenge in Utah County. Anyone remember when Garr Judd and Lisa Shepherd violated party bylaws 2 years ago and a brave soul stood up and said enough is enough. Well, it was a precursor to the crap being done by them again.

From the Trib:
One candidate has filed a formal complaint with the Utah County Republican Party over the state party boss' daughter getting elected as a delegate in a precinct where she did not yet reside.
Provo attorney Jacque deGaston, one of two Republicans challenging two-term GOP incumbent Sen. Curtis Bramble, meets with the county party's Credential Committee Friday at 4 p.m.

Luckily she is an attorney and can argue her case; bad news is that I believe the Credential Chair is Uncle Curtis Bramble, wonder how Bramhart will vote?


I would vote for Jacque deGaston in a heartbeat if I could. YOU GO GIRL!!

Busted: What mess the GOP is

What a mess Utah Republican Party has made - Des News

My favorite highlights:

But this spring, Lockhart really blew it when he sanctioned a political fundraiser for what is now called the Fab Five — four Utah County House Republicans and one southern Salt Lake County House member, who are up for re-election this year.
The problem: Lockhart's state GOP sent out the fundraising letters under the state GOP mailing privilege, while the state party is supposed to be neutral. And four of those five House Republicans are being challenged this year by fellow Republicans.

Second screw-up: Back in Happy Valley, the Utah County GOP chairwoman decided that no GOP candidates would get the e-mail addresses of newly elected delegates — complaints about getting spammed in 2006 were made by some delegates. E-mails make it easier for the candidates to contact delegates who will be voting on them in the upcoming Utah County Republican Convention.
And, get this, the Utah County GOP secretary, who has all the delegate e-mails, is Susan Bramble — wife of Sen. Bramble, who also is being challenged by two Republicans for his own re-election this year.

Third screw-up: At a meet-the-delegate night in Spanish Fork, a Utah County GOP committeewoman told Republican candidate Chance Williams, who is challenging Rep. Mike Morley, R-Spanish Fork, that if Williams mentioned the $3 million lawsuit brought against Morley by the federal government over a soured business deal, she would close down the meeting. Williams didn't bring it up, but one delegate said he's disgusted with party leaders trying to protect their own. Who cares about the First Amendment and freedom of speech anyway?

Fourth screw-up: One of Sen. Bramble's GOP challengers, Jacqueline de Gaston, is complaining that while she can get the list of the GOP delegates in her race (even with the e-mails) she can't find out how many of those are delegates elected in neighborhood meetings, how many are so-called "superdelegates" — party officeholders and others who get their delegate status without having to run in the neighborhood party mass meetings.

Perhaps a final straw? Party Chairman Lockhart's daughter, who was living with her parents at the time of the March neighborhood mass meetings, attended a GOP mass meeting in her new neighborhood as she attends BYU this spring. So she was elected a delegate in a district that at the time she was not living in. But GOP officials say that is OK, since she will represent the appropriate area at the party convention.


Hmm, If Uncle Curt Bramble wasn't the credential chair; we might have a challenge. "This whole mess reads like "Animal Farm" — the futuristic totalitarian novel — where the animal-run farm motto is: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

UT Cty GOP: We ignore our own rules

From the Trib:



"Jacqueline deGaston, a Republican candidate who aims to oust two-term incumbent Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, recently was denied a comprehensive county delegate list from the Utah County Republican Party. Instead of the information she requested, deGaston got an e-mail from Senate President John Valentine explaining why her request could not be filled. "I have reviewed both documents [county and state party bylaws] and cannot find authority for your request," Valentine wrote. "



Let me help you a bit Senator Valentine. The rules clearly state that "Each county party shall make available to the public, within 14 days of the caucuses, a complete countywide listing of the Republican state and county delegates residing in that county."



I love this quote: " "I think the real reason they denied it to me is they don't want anyone to publish it. Are they trying to hide something they're ashamed of?" she said. "



If there is any motion to censure Lockhart, Valentine, or Monnahan for this unethical behavior at the Couny Convention you have my vote and my entire precinct. We are fed up!

For GOP Leadership: rules are meant to be broken

If my Daddy-dearest was State Chair, we could really run the table in many different precincts to make sure Mommy got re-elected and Uncle Bramble too.

From today's SL Trib:

"Among all the other complaints about insider dealing in the Utah County candidate nomination system this year, add one about state Republican Chairman Stan Lockhart's daughter being elected as a delegate in a neighborhood caucus where she didn't live at the time. "

As a precinct chair, I was instructed to ensure that people lived, at that moment, in the correct precinct.

"Hannah Lockhart, who turns 18 in July, lives with her parents in Provo, said her dad. But she moves to her new precinct before the county's April 26 convention to attend Brigham Young University for spring term. "Typically [delegates] have to live in the precinct they represent," Stan Lockhart said. "But many of the documents are somewhat vague as to whether they refer to the night of the caucus or the convention." "

So, will someone please file a credential challenge at the convention? Let's send a message to Locky and Monniahan that we don't tolerate their reign of terror.

"Other GOP faithful disagree, countering that residency refers to where someone lives at the time of the caucuses, which were held in neighborhoods around the state on March 25. "If not, I could show up anywhere and say, 'I'm moving into the precinct' and get to vote without ever having lived there," said Dave Irvine, an attorney who has been active in the Republican Party for years. "

But, what else has happened in Stan's backyard? "Other recent GOP flaps in right-leaning Utah County include grumblings over the party's withholding of delegate e-mail addresses and its automatic delegate policy, where party officers and elected officials double as delegates. Some call for change, saying the practices tilt the nomination process in favor of incumbents and party insiders. "