Comments on: Anybody’s Game: Utah’s Independent Candidates for Congress 2010

By: Cody Quirk

Cody Quirk — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:12:05 +0000

Probably, ask Frank Fluckiger.

And I think you’re talking about the Personal Choice Party.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:43:13 +0000

Can the CP party afford advertising, hotel conference rooms, payment of speakers, and various other costs alone?

While I’m not Robert Milnes discussing a strategy while on paper seems perfect just can’t work. I believe third parties coming together in Utah, any many other states, to host almost something similar to a job or camp fair. Call it a political party fair, or anything you would like.

I believe there is another third party in Utah who ran a presidential candidate in ’04 and ’08 but their name slips my memory now.

By: Cody Quirk

Cody Quirk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:25:11 +0000

The Utah CP can do fine on its own and already is electing people to office as of 2007, including a City Councilman in Syracuse.

By: d.eris

d.eris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:19:36 +0000

Dale Sheldon has some good analysis of the Progressive Party’s efforts from a while back (around the time of the last Burlington mayoral election?) at Least of All Evils.

By: Ross Levin

Ross Levin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:14:11 +0000

That’s how the Progressives had a lot of their initial success in Burlington, among other factors.

By: d.eris

d.eris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:12:30 +0000

Good points Jake. Though it may seem counter-intuitive at first, it makes a lot of sense to concentrate third party and independent activism in what are, for most intents and purposes, one-party states and districts.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:26:47 +0000

Utah is one of those states that I believe that Third Parties should really target especially ones such as the CP,LP, and the RP as they continue to build SPOs.

My reasoning is pretty much described above completely. There is low voter registration which means 3rd Parties could target unregistered voters instead of having people switch their party affilation already, a high number aren’t registered DEM/REP., the Republicans have a “stronghold” there and the Democrats don’t spend too much in Utah which allows for a third party to step in, lastly look at the election results. The CP tends to poll quite well there (Baldwin received over 1% i believe), and Perot finished 2nd there in ’92 (one of two states).

I believe the CP,RP, and LP should come together in Utah and hold some sort of Summit at a Salt Lake City area hotel. There they would have speakers, tables, debate, and various other information on their parties.

I could see the media (local print, radio, & tv) covering the event pretty well, and C-SPAN seems like a network that would be interested in this. I could see an event in Utah like this being quite sucessful.