I had a fun time this past weekend with my family celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad   …

I actually think that the caucus and convention system worked pretty good. The process for nominating a candidate for U.S. Senate selected the 2 best candidates and put them on a primary ballot for all Republicans to choose between.

The goal of Count My Vote and even SB54 was to create more primary elections so that more rank and file Republicans can participate in the process. By allowing signature gathering, candidates that anticipate that they may not do well among those that…

I expect that if elected to the U.S. Senate to represent Utah we will see the most conservative Mitt we have ever seen. He will represent Utah which is in many ways the most conservative state in the nation and Mitt will accurately reflect the values of those he represents.

In his previous elected experience Mitt had to work with the Mass State Legislature which was 90% democrat. Then when he ran for president he had to position himself to pick up enough electoral votes to win.…

Back to Back Libertas' Defender of Liberty Awards

Friend of the Taxpayer Award for 2016…

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/utah-law-could-send-online-bullies-jail-criticized-002955637.html…

https://utahscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AFP-UT-Scorecard_4_19.pdf…

http://www.utahtaxpayers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-Scorecard-Final.pdf

House Friend of the Taxpayer:

Rep. Brad Daw (100%), Rep. Keith Grover (100%), Rep. Mike Kennedy (100%), Rep. Karianne Lisonbee (100%), Rep. Cory Maloy (100%), Rep. Marc Roberts (100%), Rep. Norm Thurston (100%), Rep. Gage Froerer (100%), Rep. Dan McCay (100%), Rep. Paul…

http://libertasutah.org/resources/legislator-indexes/the-2017-libertas-legislator-index/

House

Legislator    2017 Rating    Rank

Greene, B. (R)    100%    1

Roberts, M. (R)    98%    2

Knotwell, J. (R)    94%    3

McCay, D. (R)    94%    3

Hall, C. (R)    92%    5

Moss, J. (R)    87%    6

Lisonbee, K. (R)    84%    7

Maloy, A.C. (R)  …

Here are five tax and fee increases passed by the Utah Legislature:

More gas tax hikes • After increasing gasoline taxes by 4.9 cents a gallon in 2015, this year the Legislature again increased gasoline taxes. Senate Bill 276, sponsored by Sen. Kevin Van Tassell, increases gas taxes by 0.6 cents a gallon and 1.2 cents per gallon increased in 2019 and 2020 — totaling an estimated increase of $4.2 million in 2019 and $14.6 million in…

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865662284/Joint-partnership-promotes-expanded-use-of-electric-vehicles.html?pg=all

Deseret News

Joint partnership promotes expanded use of electric vehicles…

In 2016, Rep. Lifferth was again recognized as a Chamber of Commerce Business Champion. Despite voting against some of the crony capitalism bills such as the Facebook tax break, Lifferth's support for a pro-business environment for all business has again earned him recognition by the Chamber of Commerce.…

The American Conservative Union recently recognized Rep. Lifferth as one of only 10 Conservative Representatives and Senators in the Utah State Legislature.  Interestingly, there were ZERO Utah State Senators that were recognized as conservative. There were only 10 Representatives that were recognized for their Conservative Achievement in 2016.

Along with Lifferth, Representatives Coleman, Greene, Knotwell, McCay, Roberts, Stanard, and Stratton were also recognized with teh…

Rep. Lifferth was the only elected official in North West Utah County to vote against Tax Break for Facebook.

The $300 Million tax break for Facebook passed by large margins in the Utah State House and Senate and a smaller $100 Million tax break was approved by the Utah State Board of Education. In the end, Facebook chose to build their data center in New Mexico which had given even larger incentives to Facebook which is one of the biggest companies in the…

We should all be grateful for the professional way that teachers, faculty, law enforcement, and the community responded to the bomb threat today at Eagle Valley Elementary School. In speaking with some of the teachers it only took 3 minutes…

Subject: Prison Development Update

 

All,

 

The chairs of the Prison Development Commission have asked that I send you the following update:

 

 

Dear colleagues,

 

Since the Legislature approved the Salt Lake City site as the location for the new Utah State Correctional Facility, the executive branch has been working hard to perform necessary tests, analyses, and evaluations in preparation for the purchase of the land upon which the facility will be…

These are the voting results from the Special Legislative Session on July 13, 2016.

House Bills

H.B. 3001 -- Tax Credit Review Amendments (Rep. Peterson, J.)

I voted YES and we need to constantly review Tax Credits. This bill had only 1 opposing vote in the house and senate combined.

H.B. 3002 -- State Fair Park Amendments (Rep. Hollins, S.)…