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This site presents a proposed platform for the Utah County Republican Party, including core principles and policy positions. Explore our platform , individual planks, and FAQs to learn more.

Letter from the Platform Sponsors

February 16, 2025
Dear UCRP Constitution and Bylaws Committee,

We submit this alternate Utah County Republican Party Platform to the Utah County Republican Party Constitution and Bylaws Committee and realize that its significant additions, multiple rephrasings, and clarifying changes may be better received with an explanation. Here is that explanation:

The original intention was to update a section or two of the platform that were very much outdated–the last update being fourteen years ago in 2011–considering what Utah County Republican Members are encountering in 2025. Our hope was to make those corrections quickly and get them to you in January. As we began these corrections, a handful of experiences and conversations happened: gratitude for the original writers who did so well encapsulating founding principles into the planks; a need for references to tie our platform back to founding documents and state documents; the desire to include a handful of subjects omitted due to lower significance at the time; and the clear and prioritizing necessity to proclaim in our platform issues, perspectives, and terms that are more timely to our current moment in history.

This effort has been made as quickly as possible to make it to the March 15th Central Committee Meeting and the 2025 Organizing Convention for consideration by the county delegates. We realize that taking the platform plank by plank for approval could be a long process; instead our intention is that the consideration of this platform, as a whole, be considered, not as a perfect replacement, but as a good, better, best replacement for our county. As future additions and changes can be made when imperfections or better wording is found, we feel strongly that approval of this platform as the standard for vetting our candidates and judging current and future legislation would be more beneficial than delaying its adoption.

Items that have been added that are pertinent and urgent to the state of our state include:

• Freedom of Speech
• Social Media
• Data Privacy
• Medical Freedom
• Freedom to Travel
• Separation of Powers
• Right to Association and Assembly
• Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
• Elected Officials’ Responsibilities
• Parental Rights
• Energy and Environment
• Consumer Rights
• Asset Forfeiture
• Precedent
• Land, Natural Resources, and Water
• Food Rights
• Corporate Personhood
• Housing Jurisdiction

As Utah and Utah County are confronting new societal, technological, corporate, and governmental issues our platform is needing to address these changes. If we exist to get our platform into governance, then it is of the highest priority to ensure that our UCRP Platform is a more precise, encompassing reflection of what we stand for and can be used to guard our representative form of government for generations to come.

Thank you for your consideration and your time and contributions to the Constitution and Bylaws Committee.

Sincerely,
Cristy Henshaw, Keri Guinn, Wendy Hart, Stephanie Whyte, Charles Wood, Mike Carpenter, Mark Cluff, Brooks Benson