I attended the Utah Payer’s Association 34th Annual Conference and was impressed with Governor Gary Herbert's speech. Here are my notes.

I Tax increases actually decreases money to government

Some people are surprised that more criminals in jail actually reduces crime rate

Governor Pat…

My son Michael was elected to be the Sophomore Class President for next year at Rockwell Charter High School.

This was my setup to watch the Eclipse on Sunday May 20th. I duct taped my binoculars to my camera tripod and focused the image onto a white board. With the binoculars focused correctly you could see the 3 major sun spots.

I taped a large piece of Styrofoam to the front of the binoculars to…

Today at 8am, Eagle Mountain held the Grand Opening for its latest park, the "Mid Valley Sports Complex".

Mayor Heather Jackson threw out the first pitch. It was "low and outside", but in her defense, she was throwing into a stiff northerly wind.…

Brandon Watters, Chair of EM05, has written one of the most succinct reports of the GOP Utah County and Utah State conventions. I got permission from him to post it here on my web site. Shout out to Brandon, our local "Radio Personality". He also has a Call to Action on the Vote by Mail campaign that is being pushed by our the GOP State Leadership.

I am however, delighted to report that, at both our county convention on April 14^th and our…

Planned Parenthood Action Council of Utah sent me a survey to determine if I could receive their support in my campaign for state office. You be the judge if there is any chance that will happen.

PAC Endorsement Survey

1. Do you support legislation and policies that facilitate teaching of responsible, age appropriate, medically accurate sex education, including information about both abstinence and…

I posed a question to the Utah County Delegates from LD2 as to which committees they felt that I should serve on.  Below are the results of that survey that I conducted on my web site.

The biggest news to come out of the Utah State GOP Convention (4/22/2012) was that Mayor Mia Love won the nomination at convention with 70% of the vote. Republicans rallied together to provide a unified team effort to defeat Jim Matheson. Here, Mia is standing with Carl Wimmer after Carl pledged his support…

Thanks to all of the Utah County Republican Delegates that participated in the 2012 Convention. The county had a 97% attendance.

I would like to thank Mayor Heather Jackson for nominating me and Derek Warner for seconding that nomination. And then thanks to all of the County Delegates…

I am frequently critical of Microsoft and every other out-of-touch monolithic corporation.

However, yesterday I had one of the best customer services experience and wanted to give them due credit for taking care of their customer. This very positive customer service event came right after a very poor experience with Lenovo, so I got to compare them in a true side-to-side comparison.

In addition to solving a tricky security problem very quickly, the Microsoft…