Karen Hyatt
Karen Hyatt (Republican Party) ran for election to the Utah State Senate to represent District 6. She lost in the Republican primary on June 30, 2020.
Hyatt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Karen Hyatt earned a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1992.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Utah State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Utah State Senate District 6
Incumbent Wayne Harper defeated Erika Larsen in the general election for Utah State Senate District 6 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Wayne Harper (R) | 55.6 | 23,525 |
| Erika Larsen (D) | 44.4 | 18,774 | ||
| Total votes: 42,299 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Utah State Senate District 6
Incumbent Wayne Harper defeated Karen Hyatt in the Republican primary for Utah State Senate District 6 on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Wayne Harper | 50.4 | 6,898 |
 | Karen Hyatt | 49.6 | 6,780 | |
| Total votes: 13,678 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah State Senate District 6
Erika Larsen defeated Emily Barnes in the Democratic convention for Utah State Senate District 6 on April 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| Emily Barnes (D) | ||
| ✔ | Erika Larsen (D) | |
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 6
Incumbent Wayne Harper and Karen Hyatt advanced from the Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 6 on April 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Wayne Harper (R) |
| ✔ | | Karen Hyatt (R) |
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2020
Video for Ballotpedia
| Video submitted to Ballotpedia Released June 4, 2020 |
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Karen Hyatt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hyatt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I have a bachelor's degree from BYU and am a small business owner.
I've volunteered as a state delegate multiple times and served on the Republican State Central Committee for two years.
Like many Utahns, I worked on the citizens' referendum to help repeal SB2001, the "food tax bill" passed in a special session last December. This new law raised taxes on food and gas and imposed NEW taxes on services like movie streaming, home security monitoring, car towing, and others. Because it included tax rebates for certain groups of people, it was touted by legislators as a tax cut. Increasing taxes on everyone while providing government rebates to some is poor tax policy, and I opposed SB2001, gathering signatures and driving packets down to southern Utah. I also noticed certain industries were exempt from sales tax on their equipment purchases (see "Exemptions" beginning on line 4705).
The bill was successfully repealed, but statewide calls for replacing the legislators who passed it played a key part in my decision to run for office in my district.
- I believe in truly limited government and subscribe to the adage, "That government governs best which governs least." Legislators should strive to limit the number and scope of laws that are passed, particularly those that would restrict our personal liberties or increase our tax burden.
- Particularly at this time of widespread job loss, we need to eliminate unnecessary expenditures and do all we can to decrease the burden on Utah taxpayers. This is no time to look for ways to "increase revenue"; instead, it's time for the legislature to tighten its belt and pare down waste, duplication, and other excessive spending.
- I will never participate in vote trading, where legislators agree to support each others' bills - regardless of their merits - in order to get support for their own later on. You are not sending me to the senate to support other senators; you are sending me to represent you by supporting good bills and rejecting bad ones, and this is exactly what I will do.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 17, 2020
