Dan Sorensen
Dan Sorensen (Republican Party) ran for election to the Utah State Senate to represent District 14. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Sorensen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dan Sorensen's professional experience includes working as the owner of an insurance agency. earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1990.[1]
Sorensen has been affilaited with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Utah State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Utah State Senate District 14
Stephanie Pitcher defeated Dan Sorensen and Dennis Roach in the general election for Utah State Senate District 14 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Stephanie Pitcher (D) | 62.2 | 32,369 |
 | Dan Sorensen (R)  | 36.0 | 18,737 | |
 | Dennis Roach (United Utah Party) | 1.8 | 929 | |
| Total votes: 52,035 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Utah State Senate District 14
Stephanie Pitcher defeated Deondra Brown in the Democratic primary for Utah State Senate District 14 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Stephanie Pitcher | 80.0 | 5,786 |
| Deondra Brown | 20.0 | 1,447 | ||
| Total votes: 7,233 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lisa Yoder (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Dan Sorensen advanced from the Republican primary for Utah State Senate District 14.
United Utah Party primary election
The United Utah Party primary election was canceled. Dennis Roach advanced from the United Utah Party primary for Utah State Senate District 14.
Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah State Senate District 14
Deondra Brown and Stephanie Pitcher defeated Chuck Pruitt in the Democratic convention for Utah State Senate District 14 on April 9, 2022.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Deondra Brown (D) | |
| ✔ | | Stephanie Pitcher (D) |
| Chuck Pruitt (D) | ||
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 14
Dan Sorensen advanced from the Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 14 on April 23, 2022.
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United Utah Party convention
United Utah Party convention for Utah State Senate District 14
Dennis Roach advanced from the United Utah Party convention for Utah State Senate District 14 on April 23, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Dennis Roach (United Utah Party) |
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Note: The Democratic convention advanced to two rounds of voting. In each round, candidates were eliminated or withdrew. After each round, delegates voted again until a winner was declared. The Democratic convention results above show only the vote totals from the final round of voting.[2]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dan Sorensen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sorensen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I attended William Penn Elementary and Evergreen Jr. High schools and worked at the family furniture business in Sugarhouse, where I earned enough money to by my dream car, a ‘72 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40, in which I crisscrossed the backroads of Utah from the Wasatch Mountains to the Canyonlands, and from the West Desert to the Uintas. Upon graduating from Olympus High School I spent a year learning to fly a private plane around Chesapeake Bay and exploring the East Coast, from the Gulf Coast to Canada. I sold the Land Cruiser to help fund a two-year mission in Spain after which I enrolled at the University of Utah. After convincing Jana Bishop of SLC’s Parley’s neighborhood to marry me, I began a career as an independent insurance agent and eventual owner of Granite Insurance in Murray. We raised six children in Millcreek and they are now raising our grandkids in Murray, Millcreek & Holladay.
From Sugarhouse to Holladay and East Millcreek to Murray, the neighborhoods that comprise Senate District 14 are, and always have been, my home. My grandparents are buried here and my grandchildren are being raised here. If knowing a community is essential to representing it I suppose I am well suited to represent this one.- I believe deeply that government’s first priority is to protect and defend the individual sovereignty of each and every one of its citizens. I am committed to respecting each and every person’s right to live, speak and act according to their desires and judgment insofar as they do not directly impede or undermine the rights of others to do the same.
- I believe had the founders foreseen how medicine would become so industrialized - how influential its enormous profits would play in our politics - they would have written into the Constitution a prohibition of state-sponsored medicine, similar to the 1st Amendment’s establishment clause prohibiting state-sponsored religion. If the state has a positive role to play in promoting the good health of its citizens I don’t think it’s what we experienced in its approach to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Protecting freedom in the marketplace is perhaps the most significant way a legislator can enhance the human condition. Government regulation of business may sometimes be a necessary evil but more often it is an unnecessary one - a nefarious tool to protect the politically well-connected from having to innovate and compete to meet market demands.
We utilize government to build and maintain infrastructure, sanitation, emergency services, administer criminal and civil justice, and manage public lands, but beyond these basic services the responsibilities of government become more debatable. In such debates, we should determine how proposed or existing law impacts the sovereignty of each individual, prioritizing their unalienable rights to live, speak, and act according to their own desire and judgment.
We’ve never achieved a truly free market, its more of an aspiration. In the meantime it takes constant vigilance to guard against legislative, and bureaucratic encroachment due to the pressures of crony-capitalism. The more freedom we allow in the marketplace, the better the market will create opportunity and prosperity for all of us.
Another was forced to close his restaurant for Covid, offered public funding to get through the forced closure, then finally back up and running, was told the legislature voted to tax the funding he had received. These stories remind me again that government will become a nuisance and an economy killer without constant vigilance by the people’s representatives in the legislature.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 6, 2022
- ↑ Facebook, "Salt Lake County Democratic Party post from April 9, 2022," accessed August 7, 2023
