Precinct party

March 13, 2012
Tonight we did our civic duty and attended the caucus meeting.

The Democratic Party caucus.

Gasp. Horror. I know.... we live in Utah. And we're LDS.... so naturally we're Republicans, right? (You MUST read the article "Why I'm a Mormon Democrat"by Boyd Peterson.... 1,000% agree with it)

Wrong.

But I assure you, we are not some crazy liberals. We just can't stand the crazy right-wing Tea Party, ultra conservative fanatics who think they're the only ones who can tell us how to live our lives... not the federal government, not even the state government, just them.

Take a deep breathe, Jenny.

You might be able to tell politics, especially Utah politics, really gets me boiling. I'm tired of the extreme ends of the political parties ruling the roost, with the majority of us at their mercy and whim. I know my background in public health and state government impacts what political views I believe. And I want to make a difference - ok, really just get the crazies out of our legislature!!!

So we went. It wasn't a traditional "date" night but it was fun. I was however, very disappointed in the disorganization of the event. The majority of people there had never been to a caucus meeting before. With the big media push and encouragement from the LDS Church to get involved, the organizers should have know they'd have a lot of people there who had no idea what was going on. When we broke off into our precincts, there was only five of us. Jeff and I were definitely the most knowledgeable about the process, but even that was limited. We elected a precinct chair - who is now the "creepy old lady" as my sister called her who I'm afraid will be coming by a lot more than we'd like - and I got elected to be our County Delegate. I'm not completely sure what that means except I'll be spending two hours on my birthday electing candidates for county offices and state legislature.

I was half-tempted to go to the Republican caucus too but it ticks me off that I'd have to register as a Republican to get elected as a delegate. I know that's where real change will probably happen (oh the horror if it goes extreme right), but the thought of wanting to rip my own eyeballs out with some of the party's views or thought of offending everyone at church, kept me to just one meeting this week.