People4Utah is advocating for making primary elections in Utah open instead of closed.
From left: Bruce Cummings, Tami Fillmore and Bryson and Jan Garbett pose for photos at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Sept. 25. They are part of People4Utah, a group advocating for making primary elections in Utah open instead of closed. SALT LAKE CITY — Bruce Cummings was having a hard time sleeping, when just the opposite should have been the case.
One morning he called his cousin Jan Garbett and her husband Bryson Garbett. They're political people. He could vent to them. They'd listen, and at the very least they would commiserate.Not only did the Garbetts listen to what Cummings had to say, they had an antidote for his concerns. He needed a cause, and they knew a cause that needed him.People4Utah thinks a major way to help do that is by having primary elections that are open to all the people.
"We don't want to appear to be partisan," he adds, "what we're proposing is actually the opposite of partisanship. It's being inclusive. If we continue to not involve a majority of the people in the political process, and it's just a small group that dictates what goes on in our politics, that just continues to accentuate the divisiveness.
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