The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board invited the key get together candidates for the U.S. Home of Representatives to submit statements in assist of their campaigns.
1st Congressional District
Blake Moore, incumbent, Republican
Utahns are shouldering the prices of irresponsible federal spending, which has contributed to historic inflation and pushed up the costs of groceries, fuel, clothes, journey and rather more. After years of unrestrained spending, we discover our nation at a crucial juncture: Elected officers can both select to disregard the financial, safety and social dangers posed by our extreme spending, or we are able to select to behave and forestall the looming disaster our kids will face within the coming years.
As a productive conservative representing Utah’s 1st District, I’ve helped craft substantive options to our nation’s most urgent financial issues. I used to be thrilled to be appointed to serve on the Home Funds Committee this spring along with my work on the Armed Companies and Pure Sources Committees.
Utah is aware of how you can steadiness our price range and understands why we have to reverse America’s debt-to-GDP ratio. I created a Debt and Deficit Activity Pressure in Ogden with native leaders to place collectively a framework of options for a way we are able to finest develop the economic system and optimize laws, strengthen our very important applications to guard the weak, focus America’s spending on our biggest wants, and reform Congress’s budgeting course of.
These priorities have to be our nation’s priorities if we’re to have any hope of getting our fiscal home so as. Our nation has the strongest, most dynamic economic system on the planet, and we all know how you can create alternative and carry individuals out of poverty. We deserve a pro-growth, aspirational agenda, which is why I’m supporting laws to construct an atmosphere that creates jobs, makes everlasting the pro-growth Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, invests in American vitality manufacturing, helps native efforts on water shortages and wildfire danger, helps our army, and reforms burdensome laws that impede American innovation and improvement.
I sit up for persevering with my work on bringing Utah’s accountable options to Washington.
Rick Edwin Jones, Democrat
No response as of two p.m. Oct. 15
2nd Congressional District
Chris Stewart, incumbent, Republican
No response as of two p.m. Oct. 15
Nick Mitchell, Democrat
I’m excited on the prospect of being your consultant. I need to characterize each single Utahn and their values. Being a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, small enterprise proprietor and former soccer participant, I consider that one of the simplest ways to handle an issue is head on with details and knowledge.
I consider options don’t have a celebration. The most effective answer is the very best answer, no matter who proposes it. I used to be raised to all the time do the proper factor it doesn’t matter what, and if I make a mistake, I personal it and work to rectify any downside.
At my core, I really need to assist individuals. I need to get America again heading in the right direction via reality and transparency. I believe Washington has misplaced its approach and desires assist from somebody who actually understands what the on a regular basis American goes via. I’ll battle for everybody’s civil liberties.
third Congressional District
John Curtis, incumbent, Republican
No response as of two p.m. Oct. 15
Glenn Wright, Democrat
Why Ought to Utahns vote for me in November?
I consider in moving into the weeds to resolve challenges.
I’ve a confirmed observe file of working with opposing political events to make swift selections that profit the neighborhood. Throughout my six years on the Summit County Council, I’ve been lively within the Utah Affiliation of Counties and Mountainlands Affiliation of Governments. This expertise has given me a wide-ranging data of Utah’s rural and public land points.
We have to bolster our native economic system by specializing in environmental points, reminiscent of saving the Nice Salt Lake, a heritage of Utah. I’m a member of the Setting, Power, and Land Use Committee of the Nationwide Affiliation of Counties and a board member of the Neighborhood Renewable Power Company. We’re bringing 100% renewable electrical vitality to 18 Utah communities. My opponent has talked the discuss, however I’ve walked the stroll on environmental points.
I’ve personally skilled the financial challenges Utahns face. Fixing these challenges come at a value, and we should put together to spend the place we’d like and reign in prices once we should. The way in which I run my marketing campaign signifies this, as I’ve no paid workers, neighborhood workplace, or debt. I’ll do the the identical in Congress – via a fiscally conservative lens.
I may even vote to guard ladies’s well being, veterans, and senior residents. Incumbent Rep. John Curtis voted in opposition to:
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Controlling pharmaceutical and out-of-pocket Medicare prices for seniors
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The contraconception invoice, a invoice that impacts all Utah households.
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The PACT ACT, a invoice offering protections for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans from sickness attributable to fight zone burn pits.
His motion reveals an absence of concern for the well being and monetary well-being of the neighborhood. I’ll defend my fellow neighborhood members, not go away them to their sources.
Utahns want somebody in workplace able to making powerful selections and sticking to their phrase. As a fight veteran, I’ve seen the results of failure to behave. Our state has many challenges to navigate, however I’m optimistic that Utah will probably be higher and stronger by working collectively and moving into the weeds.
4th Congressional District
Burgess Owens, incumbent, Republican
No response as of two p.m. Oct. 15
Darlene McDonald, Democrat
No response as of two p.m. Oct. 15