Frustrated Utah Republicans, Democrats form new centrist political party

[applegrove]

By Dennis Romboy at Desert News Utah

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865680509/Frustrated-Utah-Republicans-Democrats-form-new-centrist-political-party.html

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SALT LAKE CITY — Some disaffected Republicans and Democrats who say extreme views are co-opting their parties have decided to carve out a middle ground in Utah politics.

Taking a centrist approach, the group announced the formation of the United Utah Party at the state Capitol on Monday.

"We are not forming another extremist, fringe political party," said BYU political science professor Richard Davis, a former Utah County Democratic Party chairman. "We are people who are in the center of the political spectrum."

Jim Bennett, son of the late GOP Sen. Bob Bennett, said he has been a man without a political home for a long time. And he and Davis say they're not alone in their frustration with the major parties.

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[Ccarmona]

1. In Utah, That Is An Extremist Fringe Party.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Yeah, I'd be real curious what their definition of "centrist" is...

Everything has been drifting right for so long that what I think of as centrist is seem by many to be "far left."

[Warpy]

4. My guess is Eisenhower Republican

with everybody knowing his or her place: women (in the kitchen), gays (in the closet), Hispanics (picking vegetables), black folks (in the ghettos), Jews (well, keeping to themselves, we don't know any of them) and everybody sitting in a Protestant church, preferably LDS, every Sunday morning.

I doubt they'll get very far, even in Utah.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. These are what we call Dino's

much like Jim Matheson who is their so called Model. Just Rethug Lite.

[crazycatlady]

5. This is Utah

One of the most conservative states in the country (maybe the most).

Jim Matheson represented a conservative state. He voted that way as expected. Not perfect, but better than the alternative. (See Manchin, Joe).

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Lived there and glad we excaped.

Was on Jim Matheson's Phone Town Halls for years.

[lpbk2713]

6. Somehow "UUP" doesn't have a magic ring to it.

[msongs]

7. maybe it is the what the mormon church tells us to do party nt