Please check out this excellent article from yesterday's Deseret News yesterday reporting that former Salt Lake County Councilman Steve Harmsen has officially joined the race for GOP Chairman:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705294651,00.html
I recently had the privilege of meeting with Steve at the home of former Congressman Merrill Cook and am proud to say that I have decided to support Steve for Utah Republican Party Chairman! Steve is a very impressive individual, extremely successful business owner, a solid conservative and proven Republican leader. In his run for Chairman, he is backed by a growing number of conservatives including former Congressman Merrill Cook, former URA President Larry Meyers, former State Rep. Mike Thompson, Grassroots Director Don Guyman, Rep. Margaret Dayton and myself among others.
Let me tell you a little bit more about Steve and why I have decided to do everything I can to support his candidacy. Steve ran a brief campaign for state party chairman last time around in 2007. He is also a former State Party finance chairman. At this point, he is the only conservative in the running . I grilled him on a number of social, fiscal and party issues of importance to myself and many other conservatives and was very pleased with his responses.
Steve told me he was running on a platform to revitalize the GOP and better harness technology to improve and amplify our efforts to elect our Republican candidates to public office. More importantly, he told me that he felt it was important that the next chairman do a lot more to open up the party to conservative groups as well and make the party more decentralized and more responsive to its members to build our GOP “big tent” to the right instead of to the left as party leaders have traditionally attempted to do.
In addition, Steve told me that he is running on a platform to help the party where it is weakest to help the GOP take back control of Salt Lake County where the GOP has a nominal advantage in voter registration, but where it has suffered some unnecessary setbacks in the last election due to early voting and the Democrat County Clerk’s practice of putting the Democrats first on the ballot which has been proven to provide a 5% voting advantage to whoever gets their name placed first among other things, practices that Steve pledged he would fight to reverse.
As you may know Dave Hansen and Tim Bridgewater are running as the two establishment candidates for Chairman leaving Steve as the only conservative candidate in the running. Steve is the only candidate in the race who can be depended on to support conservative principles. Steve is running because he does not believe that our next State Party Chairman should be chosen by our elected public officials but believes they should be chosen by the grassroots Republican Party members who took the time to get elected as state delegates without whom we could not win elections. Steve believes that if he can win the support of fellow conservatives, the party establishment candidates--Dave Hansen and former McCain presidential primary campaign regional coordinator Tim Bridgewater will divide the RINO vote and he can beat them in a three-way race and I agree! Steve is clearly not just running to get elected to lead the party, but is running on a platform of making a difference and increasing our majority statewide and helping good conservative Republican candidates get elected to public office.
Steve already has the support of a growing number of Republican leaders in and out of office, but needs your help to win and return our state party to its conservative grassroots. I urge anyone who has not already become a member of our Steve Harmsen for Utah Republican Party Chairman Facebook group (see link below) to do so now and join our efforts to elect a strong conservative, Steve Harmsen, as our next state GOP Chairman so that he can lead our party to victory in the all-important 2010 election and help us take back control of the Salt Lake County Council and increase our majority in the State legislature!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78583963031
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