The Month of May

During May we will be focusing on voter registration in our district. We have a primary on June 26th where we will not only be voting for the Republican presidential nominee, the U.S. Senate, Attorney General and State Auditor nominees, we will be choosing between Brad Daw and Dana Layton to represent Legislative District 60. It's going to be a critical primary and we're hoping for record turnouts at the polls.

Our precinct chairs have voter registration forms and absentee voter applications and will be canvassing their precincts with their block captains to get every Republican registered and ready to vote on June 26th. If you would like to help your precinct chair, please contact them and become part of the process that makes this the greatest nation on earth. And we're lucky enough to live in the greatest state on top of it!

If you haven't registered to vote in the Republican Party's closed primary in Leg 60, you may do so online or fill out the registration form that will be delivered to your door.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to post them in the comments section and we'll get them answered. See you around the neighborhood!

Utah County Republic Call to Convention

CALL TO CONVENTION 

Saturday, April 14 2012 

Salem Hills High School

150 Skyhawk Lane 

Salem, UT

Please park only in front of the school, near the tennis courts and football field. Students will be taking ACTs at the same time, and part of the parking will be blocked off for them. Please carpool with your precincts, as  this will help with the parking situation.

See you all on Saturday!

For all Utah County Republican Delegates

6:30 am: Credentialing and Candidate Booth Visits 

7:30-8:05am: UCRP Central Committee meeting (includes all Precinct Chairs and Vice Chairs – does not include those elected only as delegates) 

8:20-9:00am: Senate District Caucus meetings 

We won’t be having a Senate District Caucus for our district. So you may take this time to go to the Gym and visit with the candidates, eat, get something to drink, etc. 

9:15-10:15am: House District Caucus meetings 

10:30 to Noon: Main Convention begins with Call to Order in the Auditorium.

This map gives you the best way to travel to Salem Hills High School. Below the map are the turn by turn directions:

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1.  Turn left to merge onto I-15 S toward Las Vegas - 16.8 mi

2.  Take exit 253 for UT-164 toward Benjamin - 0.4 mi

3.  Turn left onto UT-164 E/W 8000 S St - 1.0 mi

4.  Take the 3rd right onto S 1200 W St - 1.7 mi

5.  Turn left onto W 400 N - 0.5 mi

6.  Take the 2nd right onto N Main St - 0.1 mi

7.  Take the 1st right - 0.2 mi

Salem Hills High School

150 Skyhawk Blvd

Salem, UT 84653

Mike Lee Opposes Nomination of Hurwitz to Ninth Circuit Court

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Lee Opposes Nomination of Hurwitz to Ninth Circuit Court

Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) shared the following statement in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding Andrew Hurwitz, President Obama's nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:

"I oppose the nomination of Andrew Hurwitz based on concerns I have with his constitutional jurisprudence.  In a 2002 New York Law School Law Review article, Mr. Hurwitz in effect took credit for helping develop the legal architecture for Roe v. Wade.  Mr. Hurwitz served as law clerk to then-Judge Jon Newman at a time that Judge Newman issued an opinion that Mr. Hurwitz asserts played an important role in developing the legal framework used to justify Roe v. Wade.  Far from deflecting credit from himself as the clerk in chambers during that time, as I believe a former clerk should, Mr. Hurwitz recounted that, in a subsequent interview for a subsequent clerkship, a Supreme Court justice had “jokingly referred” to him as “the clerk who wrote the Newman opinion.”  

"Mr. Hurwitz has asserted that his law review article was descriptive and did not express his personal opinion as to the merits of Roe v. Wade, but to anyone who has reviewed Mr. Hurwitz’s article and the laudatory tone with which it discusses that Supreme Court opinion,this response is simply not credible.  Mr. Hurwitz specifically praised Judge Neuman’s “careful and meticulous analysis of the constitutional issues,” calling that analysis “striking, even in the hindsight of thirty years.”

"Mr. Hurwtiz cannot have it both ways.  He cannot seek credit for his role developing a jurisprudence that is completely unmoored from the Constitution and that has fundamentally disrespected human life, and then later claim that he was only retelling a story as an outside observer.  There is growing consensus among legal experts and scholars, both conservative and liberal, that Roe was a deficient opinion that lacks any legitimate legal reasoning in support of its holding.  

"Mr. Hurwitz’s willful failure to recognize the grave deficiencies of the Roe opinion, and his self-promotion for playing a part in such an unfortunate event in this country’s judicial history, casts an unacceptable degree of doubt on his capability to serve in the role of a federal appellate judge.  

"Prior to President Obama’s unconstitutional “recess” appointments, I gave his judicial nominees great deference. Both in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor, I have voted in favor of the vast majority of the President’s nominees, including many with whom I fundamentally disagree. But I can do so no more.  There is and must be a new standard for the President’s judicial nominations.  A standard under which a problematic and controversial nominee such as Mr. Hurwitz cannot receive my support."

A video of Senator Lee's remarks can be viewed here. 

Communications Director

Brian Phillips

Brian_Phillips@lee.senate.gov

202-224-5444

Press Secretary

Emily Bennion

Emily_Bennion@lee.senate.gov

202-224-3904

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Congress Allen West on the GOP

A Facebook friend shared this video today, and as I listened to Congressman Allen West talk about the history of the GOP in America and the civil rights movement, I learned a great deal I did not know. I certainly understand why it was left out of my decidedly left leaning history books in school! 

I'm proud to be an American, and a Republican. Always have been, and this just reiterates one of the reasons why. Republicans have always stood for America, for the right for all to be free, and for strength of the American spirit. 

Amazing speech, thank you Congressman West.

Explaining the Caucus System in Utah

Lee Delivers Remarks on Obama's Unconstitutional Appointments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, February 17, 2012

Lee Delivers Remarks on Obama's Unconstitutional Appointments

WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding his position on President Obama's unconstitutional appointments:

"On January 4, 2012, President Obama bypassed the Senate’ s constitutional right to advise and consent to nominees and instead unilaterally made appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Labor Relations Board. He purported to do so under the Constitution’s Recess Appointments Clause, even though at the time of the appointments the Senate was holding pro-forma sessions approximately every 72 hours.

"If allowed to stand, President Obama’s unprecedented and unconstitutional assertion of the recess appointment power could result in presidents of both parties routinely circumventing the Senate’s Advice and Consent function and thus depriving the people’s representatives of an essential constitutional check on the executive branch. President Obama’s actions also violate the Constitution’s separation of powers. He has asserted the unilateral power to override Congress’s own determination of when it is in session. At an absolute minimum, the Senate’s institutional prerogatives demand that we be allowed to make our own rules, and yet President Obama’s actions would deprive our body of even that basic right.

"In the past, I have given the President’s judicial nominees great deference. Both in the Judiciary Committee and on the floor, I have voted in favor of the vast majority of President Obama’s nominees, including many which whom I fundamentally disagree.

"But I can do so no more. The Founders expected that each branch of government would exercise the necessary constitutional means to resist encroachments by the other branches. Among those constitutional means is the Senate’s Advice and Consent function, which I exercised today by voting against a nominee that otherwise might have received my support. Thirty three other Senators did the same.

"The President cannot expect the Senate’s full cooperation at the same time that he does violence to this body’s constitutional prerogatives. The threshold for confirming President Obama’s nominees must change accordingly. Simply put, there is a new standard for confirmation.

"Both today, and in the coming days, I will join with other Senators to act as a check on the President’s unconstitutional conduct by voting against some nominees. I expect that many of my Republican colleagues, and in time some of my Democratic colleagues, will rise in defense of the Constitution and vote against President Obama’s nominees until such time that he takes actions to restore the Senate’s full constitutional right to advise and consent to his nominees. "

Communications Director

Brian Phillips

Brian_phillips@lee.senate.gov

(202) 224-5444

Press Secretary

Emily Bennion

Emily_bennion@lee.senate.gov

(202) 224-3904

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LD 60 Caucus Training Mtg. 2/23 at 7 at the Orem City Council Chambers

The training for our District’s 22 Precincts will be on Thursday, February 23rd from 7 to 8:30pm at the Orem City Council Chambers (56 N. State (South of the Library). All Precinct Chairs and Vice Chairs should be trained to run and report on the Caucus, and we would also encourage you to invite your Secretaries and Treasurers too. The more people that know what is going on, the better the Caucus shall be.