Weber County 11/2/10 Polling Place Utilities

Attention Weber County Republican voters!

Unsure of your voting precinct and/or polling place? Follow the instructions below:

Instructions:

Step One:

1) Click on the highlighted link: Find your voting precinct. (This will open a new page.)
2) Click on the "Geocode Tool" icon (right column under "Precinct Locator Tools")
3) Enter your street address and city or town (e.g., 214 Maple Lane Ogden)

The Precinct Locator* utility will then automatically generate a map, plotting your residence within your indicated voting precinct.

Step Two:

To find your precinct polling place, enter your indicated polling precinct number generated above via the handy web utility here:

• Polling Places in Weber County

Yeah. We know this may seem overly complicated, but we nevertheless need to have all able-bodied Weber County Republicans voting on Tuesday, right?.

If all else fails, call the Weber County Clerk/Auditor's Office @ 399-8400, for further instructions.

Constitutional Amendment D

Resolution on Legislative Ethics Commission

By Jan Zogmaister
Weber County Commissioner

As you have seen in your Voter Information Guide there is a ballot question to amend the State Constitution to establish a five-member legislative ethics commission.
I spoke with several legislators and an independent person who is very familiar with the process and the information that I obtained is provided below.
I think that it is important to clarify how this came about and also who it came from.
There was a real concern coming from the citizens as to the ethics of our legislators because of actions of a few. There was a committee with membership from both parties that met to form a new system to address these concerns. (This idea precedes the UEG initiative) and was worked on though the summer of 2009 and approved 2010.
The goal was to create an independent body to judge, that did not conflict legally with the state constitution. The committee actually created in rules an independent commission that is already up and operating today.
There was concern from both parties that this independent commission could at some time just go away because it was just in rules. They were comfortable putting it into the actual article of the state constitution making it impossible for the legislature to not have a functional Ethics Commission.
Something interesting about how this has all come together is that the “cart was actually before the horse” In this particular case, the rule was already in place and the commission formed before it became Law. Usually the law is passed and then rules established to put it into action. This is a real advantage to the people because they can actually see how the law will be enacted before it becomes law.
You can ask why do we want to put this requirement into the constitution? Can you really expect to be able to legislate ethics? What this does is sets a very high expectation within the state constitution of conduct and ensures that an independent Ethics Commission will remain in place. It also ensures that in cases where enough evidence is presented to the independent commission that it will be announced publicly.
Please note that this has bi-partisan support from Speaker Dave Clark and Minority Leader David Litvack it passed the Senate 25 to 4 and the House 70 to 3

I would encourage you to get the resolution on the Legislative Ethics Commission and read it.

Lt. Governor Bell Set to Speak on the WSU Campus 10/26/10

Here's a quick note about a 2010 Gubernatorial Election event scheduled for next week, via Weber County GOP Chairman Matt Bell:

A Weber State University student group, Pi Sigma Alpha, has booked Lt Gov Bell to come and speak on campus: Oct 26th, 6:00-7:30 PM, Ballroom A.

We hope Weber County political wonks will mark their calenders and plan to attend.

Abigail Adams Project Topic: Four Amendments to Utah's State Constitution

By Christie Moore
Weber County GOP Vice-chair

Attention Weber County Republicans:

The four constitutional amendments that are on the 2010 General Election ballot have had little play and most voters don't know about them. In that connection, here's some information which might be helpful:

The best online explanation I've found is here:

• Abigail Adams Project Topic: Four Amendments to Utah's State Constitution

It covers the intent of the legislature briefly and accurately, I believe.

Early Voting Starts In Weber County Tomorrow

Vote early and often

Are you eager to cast your GOP voter ballot right now? Tired of waiting in long lines at your Weber County polling place? Are you aware that early Weber County voting goes underway tomorrow?

Find out how you can cast your Weber County ballot in your own neighborhood, starting 10/19/10 (Tuesday):

• Weber County Elections - Early Voting

Remember, Weber County voters (as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley used to say):

Vote early and often.

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

Hey folks! Check this great video out, wherein The idiot Lord Keynes dramatically battles it out, "rap" style, with the brilliant Austrian economist, FA Hayek:


As an added bonus, here's the story about how the Obama administration (along with the US banking industry) intend to reject Hayek and apply Keynesian principles to turn US Dollars into trash in November (after the 11/2/10 election):

• The Fed's Magic Money-Printing Machine, Act 2

Reader comments are invited, of course.

Republican AD for 2010---- WOW!

Ricky Hatch Weber 9/12 Group Meet the Candidates Night Speech

For those readers eagerly following the 2010 General Election runup, we're delighted to link this mp3 audio file, which contains the speech which GOP Weber County Clerk/Auditor candidate Ricky Hatch delivered to the Weber 9/12 Group during their Meet the Candidates Night on September 22:

• Weber 912 Speech Ricky Hatch.mp3

For those readers unable to download the audio file, we also present Ricky's remarks in full text form:

• Ricky Hatch Weber 9/12 Group Meet the Candidates Night Speech

We thank Ricky for this informative submission, and further extend the invitation to all other 2010 General Election GOP candidates to submit their own election-related material for publication on our Weber County GOP Blog.