One Utah

Gina Cornia, Utahns Against Hunger:  Farmer’s Markets are popular gathering places in cities, but many low income persons can make purchases because they can’t use their cards and the farmer’s markets don’t have POS machines for food stamps.
Buhler: It’s not an issue I know about but I would work with the Downtown Alliance to get the EBT [...]

There are some technical difficulties with the sound, so this could be interesting.
Mayoral Forum - Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler and being introduced.
Opening Statements 3 minutes.  I’ll do my best to summarize.
Buhler:
Usual boilerplate welcome for our commitment to fighting poverty.  Personal details:  Salt lake city native, his dad was a police officer, attended South High, [...]

Props, first, to Luke Garrott (candidate for City Council4 ) for attending today’s People’s Summit on Poverty.  His opponent Nancy Saxton didn’t make the event.
Becker and Buhler are speaking at the Mayoral Forum at the People’s Summit on Poverty.
I’ll be liveblogging the event trying to get an accurate impression of who says what.
There are some other Crossroads Urban [...]

Jenny Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving. 
In this morning’s D-News she’s quoted as saying her loss a result of sexism and will hurt the cause of women politicians in Utah:
Just nine women serve as mayor of 174 municipalities statewide. And the possibility of a 10th female mayor ended abruptly Tuesday when Jenny Wilson [...]

I promised more election day stories.
Aaron and I were walking a precinct north of the Capitol building. As we reached the last house on our list, we knocked on the door were greeted by a cheerful, intelligent woman (a former advocate with Amnesty International!) who asked if we could put in her yard signs; she [...]

A while back, I predicted the outcome of the Primary - I predicted Buhler in 1st, followed closely by Becker then Wilson.
I made two basic mistakes - I overestimated the support for both Buhler and Wilson and I underestimated the impact of the Becker campaign’s door to door work. I thought more [...]

So after a joyous and unhealthy campaign lunch of pizza and soda, Aaron and I headed again for Capitol Hill where we began the poll watching again.
We had a targeted list of about 100 voters to either verify as having voted or to contact to remind them to vote. About 1/2 our voters had [...]

Okay, so it’s lunch time on election day.
This morning Aaron and I were pollwatching for the Becker campaign. Curtis Haring rocks, he is the divinity of all divinities.
We were at the Capitol Building watching precincts 2020, 2064 and 2074. In the course of checking the polls the following stories came up.
A gentleman came [...]

Today started out with a honk and wave on the corner of 7th East and 1300 South. Lots of traffic, lots of thumbs up and lots of honks.
It’s Election Day in Salt Lake City. We’re spending our day in and out of polling places where we check the book to verify people who [...]

In the last 8 hours, I’ve received four different robocalls, excluding Jenny Wilson’s push poll “Who do you support” robocall.  I’m sure I have some more waiting for me at home; I also had a call for Peter Corroon in support of Jenny, from a firefighter in support of Jenny, a call from Keith Christensen [...]

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Tonight’s Honk and Wave will be Foothill and Sunnyside - they start at about 5 and go till 7.
Tomorrow morning we’ll be honking and waving at 7th East and 13th South near the park.
Participating is easy - show up, grab a sign and start waving at folks.  Or just honk as [...]