Sylvia Andrew
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Sylvia Andrew (Republican Party) ran for election to the Utah State Senate to represent District 16. She lost in the Republican primary on June 30, 2020.
Andrew completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sylvia Andrew was born in Provo, Utah. She studied at Brigham Young University and American River College. Andrew’s career experience includes working as a small business administrator and bookkeeper for Ron Andrew Heating & Air Conditioning Co. She served as Utah Republican Provo Precinct Vice Chair and as a state and county delegate for the Republican Party.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Utah State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Utah State Senate District 16
Incumbent Curtis Bramble won election in the general election for Utah State Senate District 16 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Curtis Bramble (R) | 100.0 | 27,227 |
| Total votes: 27,227 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Utah State Senate District 16
Incumbent Curtis Bramble defeated Sylvia Andrew in the Republican primary for Utah State Senate District 16 on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Curtis Bramble | 55.1 | 6,818 |
 | Sylvia Andrew | 44.9 | 5,564 | |
| Total votes: 12,382 | |||
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 16
Incumbent Curtis Bramble and Sylvia Andrew advanced from the Republican convention for Utah State Senate District 16 on April 25, 2020.
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| ✔ | | Curtis Bramble (R) |
| ✔ | | Sylvia Andrew (R) |
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Sylvia Andrew completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Andrew'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 am a wife, mother of 4 and grandmother of 5 from Provo. I have helped my husband run his heating and air conditioning business for over 35 years. I do the administration, payroll, bookkeeping, billing and collecting . I am currently a Republican Precinct Vice Chair and a State and County Delegate. I have been a Legislative District Vice Chair twice. I have served the party for 24 years. I am a member of the Utah Millennial Choir & Orchestra and sing alto. I have always been a freedom fighter. My great-great...grandfathers, Corporal Moses Curtis and Thomas Moody served as minutemen in the Revolutionary War. My father was raised on a dairy farm in southern Arizona. He held a doctorate of music at Brigham Young University and taught voice there for many years. My mother was raised on a farm in Park Valley, Utah. They taught me the value of hard work. I have a strong faith in God and believe that our founders were divinely inspired when they drafted the Constitution. When my children were young, I helped in their classrooms as an aid and as an art docent. I have worked with the PTA and donation gathering. I wrote a children's play and composed a song entitled, "The Time Has Come" about how we need to step up and serve in the cause for freedom. I am happiest when I am serving. When my daughter was asked to serve at Dixie Care and Share, I went with her and helped unload pallots of food and served the homeless. Utah is a better place when we step up and serve.
- My #1 priority is is to reduce government spending. Audit and evaluate appropriation spending for all non-essential government programs.
- I want to be an advocate for small business. Reduce burdensome regulations, cut taxes and ease occupational licensing requirements.
- I am for personal liberty and the proper role of government. Provide education flexibility, protect property rights and end government overreach.
Education: Make education a top priority in Utah. Prioritize funding for teachers and classrooms. Provide education flexibility for families in the form of tax-exempt Educational Savings Accounts. Emphasize more technical/vocational training in schools. One size fits all learning is outdated. Implement more educational choices such as dual learning with quality on-line classes combined with classroom learning. Encourage more apprenticeships for students' vocational exploration. Allow for more retired successful businessmen to teach in the classrooms. Offer constitutional classes that emphasize the proper role of government.
Small Business: I will be an advocate for small businesses. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, many small businesses are hurting badly. Offer perpetual small business low interest loans to businesses to get things moving again. Reduce payroll taxes and get rid of the business personal property tax.
I look up to Emily Freeman, the author of "The Peter Potential: Discover the Life You Were Meant to Live". On Jan. 12, 2016, I went to go hear her speak on the topic of "Choose Ye This Day" about Joshua, the prophet from the Bible. She told us that God taught his servants in ordinary places--in places where they were working. The Lord will come to us in our ordinary places. God talked to Moses in a burning bush when he was tending sheep. He comes to help us in our hour of need. She encouraged us to become a possibilitarian. Joshua was a possibilitarian. God told Joshua, "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." When Emily's husband asked Emily to think about adopting Garett Bolles who had been kicked out of four schools and was caught vandalizing and terrorizing the neighborhood, Emily prayed about it and decided to take the chance. Even with learning disabilities, he was able to go on a mission and play football for Snow College. With my background in community service and constitutional principles, I knew that I was prepared to run for Senate. Even though my opponent has been a senator for 20 years, has a very large war chest of campaign donations, and government's COVID-19 restrictions are in full force, I am unafraid. I have never run for office; but, with the help of God, my campaign team and dedicated volunteers, I know that this Senate seat is winnable. For, you see, I am a possibilitarian.
Above all, elected officials should be humble. In many important decisions which might seem ambiguous in which there is no clear answer, it is imperative that legislators implore their divine creator for help. Benjamin Franklin said, "The longer I live , the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.' that if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, then is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid? I also believe that honesty is the best policy. We must be able to trust our representatives of the people that they will do what they say they will do and not make empty promises. Wisdom, judgment, self-discipline are all qualities that should be found in our statesmen and women. You can count on me to be my best self and pledge to you my sacred honor.
I never give up. I always give my all to any project that I commit to. I am honest, religious and rooted in constitutional and in the proper role of government.
I was only 4 years old when President John F. Kennedy died. I remember watching the funeral procession as a child and feeling sad that our president had been killed.
My first job was working at The Wood Shoe at the University Mall in Orem part-time when I was a Brigham Young University student. Even when I was only working part-time, I outsold the only full-time employee working there.
The Book of Mormon. Because Every time I read it, I gain new insights and inspiration for my life.
I would want to be Melanie Wilkes in the book, Gone with the Wind, because she was beautiful inside and out. She was unselfish and always wanted to serve others, was forgiving, and when Scarlet hogged the center of attention, she was content to let her take the spotlight.
"Forever" by Nathan Pacheco
My daughter has struggled with alcoholism for 16 years. It has been very hard on our whole family because we all love her so much.
The house is made up of representatives for and of the people. Senators represent the states and the people. State senators defend the states against the encroachments of the national government. Several encroachments of the national government are unfunded federal mandates and state sovereignty as it pertains to public lands management. A report from the Hoover Institution in 2017, says that as of 2015, the total liability of Utah's state and unfunded pensions total $3.846 trillion. According to a 1993 Deseret News article, unfunded mandates cost the state about $105 million per year or some 10% of the state's general fund. Imagine what the amount is now with a current budget of $18.5 billion. In 2017, HJR17--Joint Resolution to Restore the Division of Governmental Responsibilities before the National Government and the States, sponsored by Senator All M. Christensen urges the president of the United States and congress to recognize state authority and take action to restore power to the states* See 10th amendment of the US Constitution. Currently 64.3% of Utah is federal lands. When Utah became a state, public land was retained by the federal government and a contract between the two parties was entered into. The federal government did not keep its promise to dispose of the public land "which shall be sold" within Utah for Utah schools. We need to follow through with requiring that the federal government follow through on their promise to Utah.
Yes, of course. I have 24 years of experience in government politics on the grassroots level and I have thirty five plus years running a small business in the private sector; so you see, I have the best of both worlds. My business has not only remained solvent but it has thrived even during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 when other construction businesses were failing. My opponent sits on committees that make decisions regarding the Utah State Budget. Under my opponents watch, totaling 20 years, the budget has grown 36.21% from $6.7 Billion to $18.5 Billion in 2019. He is beholden to special interest money and has taken over $1 million in campaign donations. His third highest donor is from Altria, a tobacco company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. I, on the other hand, remain free of entanglements and pledge to not accept big corporate money. I have also pledged to only serve 2 terms.
Growth is our biggest challenge we are facing. Most of our current growth is all along the Wasatch Front . Because of the Governor's Office of Economic Development's incentive tax credit programs, big companies are enticed to come to Utah and settle along the Wasatch Front. Micron or IM Flash who have both donated generously to my opponent's campaigns, have received $45.9 million in tax credits. Recently, after a state bidding war, Facebook was enticed to come to Utah (Eagle Mountain) with a promise of $150 Million in tax breaks for the project's first phase and taxes are waived altogether for the next 20 years. With each addition of giant companies such as these, growth remains a challenge with added congestion and air pollution. A better idea would be for government to facilitate the implementation of High Speed Internet in our rural areas to encourage the expansion of growth to areas outside the Wasatch Front.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 8, 2020
Current members of the Utah State Senate
Leadership
Majority Leader:Kirk Cullimore
Minority Leader:Luz Escamilla
Senators
District 1
Scott Sandall (R)
District 2
Chris Wilson (R)
District 3
John Johnson (R)
District 4
Calvin Musselman (R)
District 5
Ann Millner (R)
District 6
Jerry Stevenson (R)
District 7
Stuart Adams (R)
District 8
Todd Weiler (R)
District 9
Jennifer Plumb (D)
District 10
Luz Escamilla (D)
District 11
Daniel Thatcher (F)
District 12
Karen Kwan (D)
District 13
Nate Blouin (D)
District 14
District 15
Kathleen Riebe (D)
District 16
Wayne Harper (R)
District 17
Lincoln Fillmore (R)
District 18
Dan McCay (R)
District 19
Kirk Cullimore (R)
District 20
Ronald Winterton (R)
District 21
Brady Brammer (R)
District 22
Heidi Balderree (R)
District 23
Keith Grover (R)
District 24
Keven Stratton (R)
District 25
Mike McKell (R)
District 26
David Hinkins (R)
District 27
Derrin Owens (R)
District 28
Evan Vickers (R)
District 29
Don Ipson (R)
Republican Party (22)
Democratic Party (6)
Forward Party (1)
