New party seeks to end state funding for closed Republican primaries

United Utah Party chairman says it is unfair to make taxpayers fund an election where many of them cannot participate.<br>

Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune Richard Davis, chairman of the new United Utah Party, is calling for an end of state funding for GOP primaries where only Republicans — not all taxpayers — may participate. Richard Davis is helping to organize a new centrist party of disaffected Republicans and Democrats called the Utah United Party. Organizers as well as several former GOP and Democratic leaders announced the new party during a press conference in the Centennial Room at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City Monday May 22, 2017.

New party seeks to end state funding for closed Republican primaries

United Utah Party chairman says it is unfair to make taxpayers fund an election where many of them cannot participate.<br>

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