When Tom and I went to vote in our precinct yesterday in West Jordan at 4pm, we were the 59th and 60th voters to have voted that day.
Not exactly a whopping turnout.
Today’s Utah Newspapers have reported the results:
Primary Elections: Mayors of Murray, Sandy win first round
Handful of Utah voters turn out: Some incumbents eliminated; rain blamed as most residents stay home
The incumbent mayor in West Jordan, Bryan Holladay, did not survive the primary election here. This was his first term as mayor “after serving 7 years as a lawmaker” and, as I previously posted in my article about the upcoming West Jordan election, I was not happy with him and his pro-business, pro-development policies. He is quoted in today’s Salt Lake Tribune as saying, When you make decisions, you’re going to lose supporters.
In his case, he continually made decisions that were pro-big business and, in my opinion, anti-small business owner and anti-community.
The Election Monitors at our polling place told us that there was no publicity on any of the candidates in our city of West Jordan, when we complained of not hearing much about the candidates.
David Newton and Brian Pitts will be vying for mayor in West Jordan. I will be sure to be trying to find all I can on them and report here of my findings.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 