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Robert F. Bennett

Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett (born September 18, 1933) is the junior Senator from Utah.

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Bennett is the son of Frances Marion Grant and U.S. Senator Wallace Foster Bennett, as well as the grandson of Heber J. Grant, seventh president of The Church of
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US Senator
Orin Hatch

Sen. Hatch is Utah's Senior Senator. 

Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure and Taxation and IRS Oversight. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the ranking Republican, the Committee
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CALL FOR
TOOELE COUNTY REPUBLICAN
County Organizing Convention



April 23, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Tooele County Courthouse
County Auditorium


Agenda Here

Rules Here

All County Delegates should attend.

Proposed ByLaw Change

ARTICLE VII: PRECINCT OFFICERS

Section 2. Duties of Precinct Officers

A. Precinct Chair. The Precinct Chair shall be a member of the Central Committee, shall be the chair of the next precinct caucus, shall conduct the Get Out the Vote campaign in his or her precinct, {shall be a county delegate}, and shall appoint delegates in the event of any vacancies. The term of office is two (2) years.

ARTICLE VIII: CAUCUS AND CONVENTION PROCEDURES

Section 2. Precinct Caucuses

D. Election of State and County Delegates. County and state delegates shall be elected at each caucus. {The precinct chair serves as a county delegate}. Delegates must be registered affiliated Republicans, may not be simultaneously an officer, delegate, or candidate for a political party other than the Republican Party, and must reside in the precinct they are elected to represent. In the event that more than two (2) candidates are nominated for a single delegate position, preference voting shall be used to elect the delegate. In the event that more than one (1) delegate position is being elected and there are more than twice the number of candidates nominated as delegate positions being filled, the caucus shall use two (2) ballots to elect the delegates. Each caucus participant may vote for the number of candidates equal to the number of positions being filled on each ballot. The first ballot is used to reduce the field of candidates to twice the number of positions being filled. The second ballot determines the winners. Under any balloting method, any tie shall be broken by tossing a coin.

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9/4/2008      Republicans praise choice of Palin as VP

by Tim Gillie

Tooele County Republicans like what they’ve seen and heard coming out of their party’s national convention, being held in St. Paul, Minn., this week.

“Palin hit a home run with her speech on Wednesday night,” said Chris Sloan, Tooele County Republican Party chairman. “She very eloquently covered her
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3/30/2008      Realtor-takes-over-as-head-of-county-Republicans

by Tim Gillie

STAFF WRITER

The new head of the Republican Party in Tooele County hopes to increase the party's base by recruiting more people from throughout the county to be actively involved in the party at the precinct and central committee level.

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