Rampant gerrymandering has left the boundaries of Utah’s four congressional districts looking like someone dropped their phone and the screen has cracked. Our current districts are drawn in such a way that majority-Democratic areas have been divided like slices of pie, lending Republican representatives an unfair advantage and deliberately devaluing the votes of a large number of Utahns.
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RELEASE: Boehner Brings Incivility to Utah Politics & Love Campaign
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Boehner Brings Incivility To Utah Politics & Love Campaign _________________________________________________________________________ The Alliance for a Better UTAH was formed in an attempt to raise the level of civil political discourse about issues important to Utahns. We hope to engage ordinary citizens, candidates and elected …
Redistricting
All around the state, the people have spoken loud and clear: Keep our communities of interest together. This is true whether we are talking about congressional districts, state house districts or state senate districts. The Alliance for a Better UTAH calls on the redistricting committee to adhere to the principles it adopted, and those common-sense principles that their constituents have called upon them to adopt. We call upon the redistricting committee to listen to the citizens of Utah and demonstrate how the final redistricting maps respect our communities of interest.
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