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Tab Uno
Tab Uno (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Utah House of Representatives to represent District 13. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Uno completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tab Uno was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and lived in Clearfield, Utah, as of 2020. He earned bachelor's degrees in political science and philosophy as well as master's degrees in social work (2002) and public administration (1986) from the University of Utah. His clinical experience includes working for the Family Counseling Service in Ogden, as an adjunct instructor at Salt Lake Community College, and as a therapist at New Horizons, Associated Interventions & Counseling, Volunteers of America, Clinical Consultants, Blomquist Hale Consulting. Uno has also worked for higher education agencies and community organizations in Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber counties.[1][2][3]
Elections
2022
See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Karen Peterson defeated Tab Uno in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karen Peterson (R) | 61.4 | 7,644 |
 | Tab Uno (D)  | 38.6 | 4,806 | |
| Total votes: 12,450 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Tab Uno advanced from the Democratic primary for Utah House of Representatives District 13.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Karen Peterson advanced from the Republican primary for Utah House of Representatives District 13.
Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Tab Uno advanced from the Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on March 30, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Tab Uno (D) |
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Karen Peterson advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on March 26, 2022.
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| ✔ | | Karen Peterson (R) |
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2020
See also: Utah House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Paul Ray defeated Tab Uno in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on November 3, 2020.
| Total votes: 17,100 | |||
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Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Tab Uno advanced from the Democratic convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on April 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Tab Uno (D) |
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Republican convention
Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Paul Ray advanced from the Republican convention for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on April 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ |  | Paul Ray (R) |
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2018
General election
General election for Utah House of Representatives District 13
Incumbent Paul Ray defeated Tab Uno in the general election for Utah House of Representatives District 13 on November 6, 2018.
| Total votes: 12,325 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tab Uno completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Uno's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Excessive, out of control growth must be managed. Dangerous, congested roads, overcrowded schools and classrooms, soaring housing prices, and the degradation of our air and water cannot be allowed to continue.
- I will bring my extensive experiences and qualifications to develop practical, long-term solutions to the State Legislature, not patchwork symbolic, nice-sounding fixes.
- Our communities need healers not dividers, and I will work to build coalitions to work on common solutions to our societal problems, listening respectfully to broad segments of differing opinions.
Growth
Transportation
Housing
Environment
Government Reform
Health Care
Education
Taxes
Senior Citizens
Crime
Experience. I have more than thirty years of professional experience in the issues impacting our neighborhoods: community development, transportation, housing, environment, public health, senior citizen issues, and education.
Business, Economic Development, and Labor Appropriations Subcommittee
Health and Human Services Interim Committee
House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
House Education Committee
House Health and Human Services Committee
House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
House Transportation Committee
Infrastructure and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee
Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee
Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee
Today's polarized environment with the extreme left and extreme right views and intransigent politicians results in DO-NOTHING politics. Voters demand and need result-oriented action not just idealistic words from their legislators. Our problems are not just going to go away just because our politicians just shout louder. As a Democrat, I will work with Republican legislators who are sponsoring bills that will address the concerns of northern Davis County residents. We need to compromise and the voters demand that we work together for the common good.
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2020
Tab Uno completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Uno'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 have visited all the nearly 12,000 homes in Clinton, West Point, Sunset, and NW Clearfield twice since March 2018 and have become aware of our communities' real concerns having talked directly with hundreds of residents throughout north Davis County.
As a former Salt Lake School Board member, I discovered that our teachers and schools can't do it all themselves with families facing health care and housing issues, financial worries about food and even school supplies. Our community residents are concerned about how our state legislature doesn't seem to respond positively to voters' initiatives or how our roads in north Davis County are not being improved rapidly enough.
If elected, I would bring both compassion and a deep understanding of how government works to provide residents with a truly "representative" and "responsive" form of public service.- Dedicated to authentically representing voters by visiting every home in the legislative district each term while in office.
- Focusing on the real concerns of our community, including government reform, affordable health care, a fair tax system, improved roads, affordable housing, and local control of our public schools.
- Being the hardest working and most dedicated public servant as a full-time state legislator as demonstrated by my life-time of community service.
1. Government Reform to make government responsive to the public and respect the public's informed decisions.
2. Health Care Reform with access for all residents, especially free preventative, integrative medicine and lower prescription costs.
3. Transportation improvements on 2000 West, 1800 North, and Legacy Corridor Extension.
4. Public Education that increases the local control of schools by teachers and parents.
Joshua Chamberlain was an honorable, hardworking professional. He undertook an important undertaking in his fair treatment of Confederate soldiers at the end of the Civil War and even provided just treatment of Union soldiers who were caught attempting to leave the Army during the War. He endured and suffered physically but did it with dignity.
(2) Openness and transparency.
(3) Awareness of the concerns and needs of residents.
(4) The placement of others before one's self.
(5) Hardwork with a passion for the state legislature and the thrill of the campaign and meeting residents in person.
- Helping seniors, organizing the best senior fair on behalf of the Salt Lake County Aging Services.
- Helping the Bryant Junior High woodshop teacher prepare the plans for his own new woodshop when a new Junior High School replacement construction contract had been awarded and the original woodshop design was shown to be inferior to the woodshops at both Hillside and Clayton Junior High Schools.
- Convincing the Salt Lake School Board to award the sale of the old surplus Ensign Elementary School property to the second highest bidder in order to preserve part of the property for a public library in the Avenues.
- Helping two gifted and talent teachers at Backman Elementary School receive due process after parents were unjustifiably harassing them.
- Helping distressed, suicidal people discharged from the McKay Dee Hospital into outpatient care.
- Identifying and correctly diagnosing a mental disorder of a young boy who was able to successfully connect to a proper specialized therapist who later verified my diagnosis.
- Continuing to working succesffuly with a woman with borderline personality disorder until her discharge even under threat of a supervisory reprimand.
- Being elected (if the voters so choose to do so in 2020) to the State Legislature to honor my father, something the Honorable Raymond Uno almost succeeded accomplishing in 1968 when he only lost by 150 votes for the Utah Senate against the second most powerful Utah State Senator at the time.
Our continued taxpayer use of millions of dollars in state funds to entice out of state businesses to Utah must be re-examined. " Growth for growth's sake" moto must be challenged and instead a focus on the "real" needs of the residents living here in Davis County and elsewhere in Utah must be the primary concern of state legislators.
While providing individual constituency service is an important role for any state legislator, to have a lasting and larger impact, it's necessary to work with other state legislators to gain their trust and willingness to work together on issues impacting Davis County. It is my intention to primarily focus on working on other legislators' proposals that are likely to have a positive impact on Davis County. It is not about getting credit or bringing attention to one's self, it is about getting the job done for the voters and residents.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Tab Lyn Uno participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on March 29, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Tab Lyn Uno's responses follow below.[4]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Affordable Health Care For All 2) Teacher and Parent Control over Public Education |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I previously ran and was elected to the Salt Lake City Board of Education because I believe that education and informed voters are essential to a working democracy. Educated people can obtain better jobs and can make better decisions about their own lives. The future of Utah and our Country lies with our youth, hopefully youth that can think and possess the knowledge and abilities to protect and promote our world and environment.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[6]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Tab Lyn Uno answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | Joshua L. Chamberlain was governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. As a lieutenant colonel in charge of the 20th Maine, he commanded one of the most pivotal battles at Gettysburg during the Civil War. He eventually earned the Medal of Honor. Well educated, Chamberlain believed in honor, hard work, and the fair treatment of all people, including deserters and the Confederacy.[6] | ” |
| “ | A love to campaign and getting out in an effort to meet all residents of one's constituency. An ability to actively listen and understand what political representation really means (I did my Masters Thesis on this topic). Honesty. Integrity. A passion to care about people and their concerns (I am a licensed clinical social worker). Ability to listen to many sides of an issue and to look for the good in every person and their ideas.[6] | ” |
| “ | Past experience in overseeing a $60 million annual budget as a former Salt Lake City Board of Education member. Educated with two Masters Degrees focused on serving people (Public Administration and Social Work). A passion to both campaign and staying connected to my constituency as well as to legislate at the State Capitol.[6] | ” |
| “ | To ensure that all laws to be passed are in the public interest as well as responsive the public's opinions.[6] | ” |
| “ | Passing major laws that will really improve education, provide affordable health care, and improve our environment.[6] | ” |
| “ | The assassination of President Kennedy. I was playing at Wasatch Elementary School when I heard the news. At the time, I really didn't know what it meant. But now, I realized it was a great national tragedy.[6] | ” |
| “ | Working for my dad's law firm while I was in junior high school where I vacuumed, took out the garbage and polished the tables for about two years. I always wondered what the lawyers thought of my polishing their large wooden desks because I imagined they must have had many important legal documents stained by the oil I used. But strangely I never received any complains.[6] | ” |
| “ | Back in the 1970s, when Diane and I spent time at Treasure Mountain Inn at Park City and hopped into the shower together and discovered there wasn't any hot water.[6] | ” |
| “ | Christmas. It's supposed to about peace and being together with family and friends.[6] | ” |
| “ | Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. It won the one-time Hugo Award for ""Best All-Time Series"" in 1966. The book series describes a future galactic empire in the throes of decline and those scientists who attempt to prevent or minimize the impending disaster. The book emphasizes the value of science as well as human relationships and the preservation of goodness. Written in clear and easy but appealing style, it allows the reader to imagine a fantastic future universe.[6] | ” |
| “ | Cooper played by Matthew McConaughey in the science fiction movie Interstellar (2014). Using Kip Thorne's work, one of the foremost theoretical physicists, the movie and the experience that Cooper goes through is as scientifically accurate as possible to date. I would like to be able to experience a wormhole and the fifth dimension.[6] | ” |
| “ | Laptop. My laptop and the internet allows me to experience a whole range of stimulating movies, television shows, news events. It exposes me to the outside world, foreign countries, to quantum physics and the multi-verse. It allows me to express my opinions and hear from many different people all over the world. It allows me to expand my mind and my world to unimaginable levels of attainment.[6] | ” |
| “ | I Dreamed a Dream sung by Ann Hathaway in the movie ""Les Miserables"" (2012). Set in France close to the French Revolution, Hathaway's character is unfairly terminated from her menial job and then suffers a horrendous life of poverty and abuse. This song is about dreams and the ripping away of those dreams. I am running so that the dreams of my constituent will never have to experience the depths of emotional despair displayed by Hathaway who in real life actually experienced physical deprivation in order to perform in the movie.[6] | ” |
| “ | Balancing my personal beliefs and those the I worked for, especially when they differed significantly.[6] | ” |
| “ | Not much. Republicans hold super-majorities in both the Utah House of Representatives and the Senate.[6] | ” |
| “ | Yes. There is a big difference in the ethical underpinnings of being a government worker or politician and those who work in the private sector. The public interest is something that not every business person considers when they focus on money, investors, and profit.[6] | ” |
| “ | Overcoming the mindset mentality of a government dominated by only one political philosophy. Such a mentality reduces the state's capacity to be flexible and adapt to a rapidly changing geopolitical environments, and technological and scientific challenges.[6] | ” |
| “ | A cooperative team approach where the Governor is able to offer a state-wide vision for the state and the state legislature passes laws to address the concerns of the residents of the state. Then the governor attempts to carry out those laws to the best of their ability.[6] | ” |
| “ | Essential. No one legislator can effectively pass legislation without the approval of other legislators. Informed, educated legislators hopefully can work and communicate together to develop comprehensive, meaningful laws. Through intelligent debate and deliberation, legislators working together it is hoped can arrive at laws that are supported by the public as well as dismissing in far-flung, wasteful ideas.[6] | ” |
| “ | An independent, non-partisan commission appointed by the Governor and approved by the State Legislature.[6] | ” |
| “ | House Education Committee, House Health and Human Services Committee, and House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee.[6] | ” |
| “ | Not at this time. It is important to gain experience and practical knowledge about the State Legislature first.[6] | ” |
| “ | Olene S. Walker.[6] | ” |
| “ | Not at this time. I want to be able to remain in touch with my constituents and it becomes far more difficult to do this with a larger constituency.[6] | ” |
| “ | Just begun my journey for the 2018 election.[6] | ” |
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
I began running (which eventually turned into walking and limping) for office because of my own personal desire to improve public education, public heath care, and our environment. But later as I talked to residents (almost 2,500 of them), I have come to believe I am running because there are other public concerns such as public safety officer retirement benefits, overcrowded emergency rooms, precious natural resources threatened by state road development and negatively impacting our Great Salt Lake, and other issues that residents in House District #13 want addressed. I hope to increase local control of our neighborhood schools whereby teachers and parents have much more power as to what happens in their schools. I hope to lower health care costs by expanding health care coverage so that all residents can seek lower cost preventive medical care saving taxpayer dollars. I hope to support state laws to help preserve our precious water and increase the use of renewable energy resources such as wind and solar energy before our oil and gas resources begin to run out. Is there anything you would like to add? Having visited all 11,500 homes in House District #13, this year, I have learned that a vast majority of residents are decent people, many friendly and interested in making sure that our community thrives and they have the best interest of our State in their minds and hearts. I would be proud to represent such people at our State Legislature. Even the woman who continued eating her ice cream cone through my entire oral introduction while on my campaign trail. She made me smile.[6] |
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| —Tab Uno[1] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on October 25, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 2, 2020
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email communication with Tab Uno," October 1, 2020
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Tab Lyn Uno's responses," March 29, 2018
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