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Dee Grey
Dee Grey (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Utah House of Representatives to represent District 44. Grey lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Grey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dee Grey was born in West Jordan, Utah. Grey earned an associate degree from Dixie State College in 2005 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 2009. Grey's career experience includes working as an organizational agility and inclusion coach engagement advocate at TheoremOne. Grey also has experience working in service, retail, software engineering, and management. Grey has been affiliated with the School Community Council for Golden Fields Elementary.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Utah House of Representatives District 44
Incumbent Jordan Teuscher defeated Dee Grey in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 44 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jordan Teuscher (R) | 64.9 | 10,745 |
 | Dee Grey (D)  | 35.1 | 5,823 | |
| Total votes: 16,568 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Dee Grey advanced from the Democratic primary for Utah House of Representatives District 44.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jordan Teuscher advanced from the Republican primary for Utah House of Representatives District 44.
Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 44
Dee Grey advanced from the Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 44 on April 9, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Dee Grey (D) |
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 44
Incumbent Jordan Teuscher advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 44 on April 23, 2022.
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dee Grey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Grey'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 love the values I was raised on, and I believe that these shared values will help us collaborate together to build a better Utah that works for everyone. I want to change the relationship we have with our politicians. I want more accountability, transparency, and ethics. I want to enable distributed decision-making to the people closest to the problems.
I take my cultural upbringing very seriously. I believe we can do better, as a community, to love thy neighbor. Love requires kindness. Kindness requires listening, honesty, and feedback. I want to bring back kindness. But that means understand how each of us can contribute to our own problems, but also create our own solutions.
It's time to stop being nice, so we can start being kind. We have the unique ability to define our own country, to define our own values, and to create a society that meets those values. That requires that we also understand the accountability we have for the harm our actions cause. Vote responsibly. Vote accountably. Vote Kindness.- We owe our kids better education. Our education needs to be fixed. Note it is our education. We define it. Educators need more resources, not more scrutiny. Let’s provide the resources the educators need, and the education that parents need, in order to be able to collaborate on local, innovative, improvements relying on the expertise and education of our professionals.
- Our economy is not working for everyone. Solutions to this will are complex, but the first step is recognizing we can fix it, and voting for candidates that will do so. We need better measurements for livability in our city. To mee the new challenges of our city, from climate change, to housing costs, we must start understanding that our current behaviors and experiences will have to change. But I believe that we have the desire, and will, to create a strong community to weather these changes. From denser housing and shared responsibility for housing-vulnerable to moving authority back down to local cities and municipalities. The people that can solve the problem best are closest to it.
- Accountability for our culture is ours. We have a representative government. The issues we experience, we have the authority and responsibility to fix them. Through individual and through community actions. But change starts with accountability.We must hold politicians accountable for poor behavior. From last minute bills, to overriding multiple ballot initiatives, our legislators don’t believe they are accountable to us. It’s our responsibility to make them accountable. Even if it means voting against your party, bad behavior is bad behavior. And i hope that if i do the same, that my constituents will hold me accountable and not excuse my behavior because all politicians lie. This will start with increased transparency and engagement.
But overall. My biggest focus is the kindness of helping our community see that we can solve these problems.
Given that, my mother is the person I look up to the most, and the example I want to follow. My mother was nice. She laughed. She made others laugh. She ensured that people felt loved in every space she entered. She sang. I will never forget how she sang. It's one of the things she can still do. She has Alzheimer's now, and finds it hard to do most things. My parents are stuck in the middle of the Medicare expansion gap that requires that they are either destitute to get any help, but not enough, or they make enough to get by, but not nearly enough to cover her medical costs.
And she still laughs. She still sings. People have called her Happy Hilda since I can remember. Knowing how scary that the experience is, my heart constantly breaks for her. Knowing that she will never actually know who I am, breaks my heart. Know that the best parts of her are the parts I love about myself the most. Compassion, self-sacrifice, and passion for what you believe in. But I love the music she put in me. The songs I sing to my kids, the song my heart sings when I know my kids feel as loved as my mom made me feel.
And she worked, hard. She was a woman of her time. She often had 2 or 3 jobs to help supplement our income. We never went hungry, but we were known to enjoy some expired food from time to time. But she always made sure to bring a little bit of joy to our lives, even if it cost a little bit, and even if that created tension in her marriage. She knew the value of joy in life.
On Leadership
Agile Management 3.0 by Lyssa Adkins
The Speed of Trust by Franklin R. Covey
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
On Criminal Justice
I know a lot of people would argue that politicians can't be those things. To those people, I say I completely agree. We have lost faith in our politicians. But I believe this can change. I believe we have the responsibility to change it.
We were granted a sacred responsibility to vote, to be informed, and to create the very world we see around us. We created a constitutional democratic republic for the sole purpose of showing that all men ARE created equal, and here is how we want to structure a government to represent that self-evident truth.
We were given the awesome responsibility of creating our country. Not just living in it. Building it. Together. But that starts by looking in the mirror when we see problems in politics. If we don't like the way our politicians behave, stop voting for the same politicians. People will not change unless they are held accountable for their actions. They can't be held accountable if they always get elected no matter what. I don't think anyone wants an unaccountable political party. Especially one with a super-majority.
I believe we have the ability to understand that no one experiences this life exactly the same as anyone else. I use this understanding to synthesize processes, stories, and accounts in order to identify improvements in processes and metrics.
1. To represent their constituents by voting in a way that represents the best opportunities for their district, regardless of personal belief. I believe that requires following evidence-based practices, using data, and making informed decisions.
I want Utahns to be proud of our representatives, by feeling accountable and responsible for those representatives. I want Utahns to expect transparency, not corruption. I want Utahns to expect honest politicians, and to have the tools to create accountability for representatives that behave poorly.
But it does remind me that I felt alone in wondering what it meant. I recall not feeling like I knew if I could trust some of the elders in my life to explain it to me. Because I had already experienced some of the cultural racism in my familial and social circles. Despite being only 13, I had been warned about having Black girlfriends multiple times, often referencing possible future children, despite not even have hitting puberty.
I recently learned how feelings aren't bad, but being alone in those feelings are. I felt alone, because I knew I had a closer experience with some Black people, and recognized that their experience of, and contribution to, the world is different than the way that the social circles around me often described those people.
But I would say that my first real job was working at the "Dairy Queen / Orange Julius" at the Fashion Place Mall. My shift manager was named Moose. I loved the job. I worked with my late best friend, Spencer. For a food service job, it was one of the better options. No grease outside of one of those hot-dog rollers. Plenty of friendly co-workers and other food-court workers. I ended up working at the Gamestop in that same mall for a number of years as well.
Or, any of the characters from Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. The ability to experience the chaotic randomness of a multi-verse would be...really nifty.
The struggle I have dealt with in my life is being alone in creating my story. As a non-binary person that was assigned male at birth, I never felt like I belonged in all of the stories around me. I felt queer, but I wasn't into boys. I was into girls, but I never felt like I belonged "with the boys". So as others are learning who they are through the stories around them, from their friends, to their media, I was trying to understand all of it. I needed to better understand how everyone worked together, because I couldn't figure out where I necessarily fit in.
When I discovered the non-binary gender identity, it didn't immediately grab me. But as I heard the stories, I finally was hearing stories about me. I felt more connected to this group of people that were singing my songs. When I found that multiple indigenous cultures had third and other non-binary gender stories, I felt more connected to the earth and our history.
Because of all of their tiny anty bodies...
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 31, 2022
