Message from the Chair

Happy New Year!

With the new year arriving, many of us take stock of the past and plan for the future.  Let me do the same in regard to the county party.

Obviously, the big event for us was the election.  At the national level, Barack Obama brings a breath of fresh air to the Oval Office.  Democratic gains in both the U.S. House and Senate showed Americans generally are fed up with the Republican party and are ready for change.  We’re anxious to see significant changes to foreign and domestic policy that will ameliorate U.S. relations with other nations, end the war in Iraq, wage the real war on terror, boost support for education, institute real energy solutions, save the environment, and a host of other needed improvements.  

Utah County may seem like a world apart.  Elections in Utah County were disappointing in the sense that none of our wonderful legislative candidates won a majority of the vote.  However, we did not expect we could accomplish change over night.   Change takes time.  This is particularly true in Utah County where Democrats have received low vote totals, not to mention a lack of electoral victories, since the mid-1990s.  

The county party created a ten year plan in 2007 that was intended to move the party forward to electoral parity with Republicans within ten years, not within two years.