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John Stevens (Utah)
John G. Stevens was a 2014 Republican candidate for District 57 of the Utah House of Representatives.[1]
Elections
2014
Elections for the Utah House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 24, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 20, 2014. Michael Plowman defeated Jim Thorne in the Democratic convention. Incumbent Brian Greene defeated John Stevens and Holly Richardson in the Republican convention. Greene defeated Plowman in the general election.[1]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican |  Brian Greene Incumbent |
82.5% | 6,317 | |
| Democratic | Michael J. Plowman | 17.5% | 1,341 | |
| Total Votes | 7,658 | |||
Campaign themes
2012
Stevens' campaign website listed the following issues:[2]
- Budget
- Excerpt: "Utah is wise to have a provision in our Constitution that forces us to balance our budget each year. It takes a lot of work each year but as with our personal budgets it takes work to make correct decisions. It means that we cannot spend more than we earn."
- Economic Development
- Excerpt: "We need to grow our local businesses and ensure that nothing that we do affects our local businesses in a negative manner. We need to decrease the amount of regulation that our business endure on a daily basis and instead find ways to get government to help businesses walk through the processes."
- Education
- Excerpt: "We need to always remember our goals for education must be focused on educating our children. Nothing else is more important!!! We need to ensure that everything we do makes our children’s education better. We need to focus our attention on the classrooms."
- States Rights
- Excerpt: "We need to return to the understanding that we as a State know what is best for our State. We were promised we would be on an equal footing when we joined the Union. We are not! Over 65% of our State land is owned and controlled by the Federal government. Texas only has around 2%. There’s something wrong with this picture!"
- Trust lands
- Excerpt: "I am strong supporter of Ken Ivory’s bill that will grant Utah back its state lands by 2014. This issue will go before the Supreme Court. I will have the courage to stand up and fight for our right as a state to demand that the Federal Government honor their commitments when we gained our Statehood back in 1896."
2012
Stevens ran in the 2012 election for Utah House of Representatives District 57. He and Brian Greene defeated Deanne Taylor in the Republican convention. Greene subsequently defeated Stevens in the Republican primary on June 26, 2012. Greene faces Democratic candidate Scott Gygi in the general election on November 6, 2012.[3][4][5]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Brian Greene |
55.4% | 2,057 |
| John Glenn Stevens | 44.6% | 1,653 |
| Total Votes | 3,710 | |
2010
Stevens ran in the 2010 election for Utah House of Representatives District 57. He was defeated at the May 8 Republican convention by incumbent Craig Frank.
Recent news
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- All stories may not be relevant to this legislator due to the nature of the search engine.
See also
- Utah State Legislature
- Utah House of Representatives District 57
- Utah House of Representatives
- Utah House of Representatives elections, 2014
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Utah Lieutenant Governor, "2014 Candidate Filings," accessed March 22, 2014
- ↑ Campaign website, Issues
- ↑ Utah 2012 candidate filings
- ↑ C-SPAN, "AP Elections Results Utah - Summary Vote Results," accessed June 26, 2012
- ↑ Utah.Gov, "2012 Primary Election Results," accessed July 24, 2012 (dead link)
