But a couple of intrigues are developing that could make this convention more interesting than your typical off-year meeting of the delegates.

Enid Greene has become a bit of an enigma for the party, seen simultaneously by party insiders as a shining star and as a burden, depending on who is doing the judging.

Her bid for re-election as the party's vice chair and the challenge she faces for the job from Todd Weiler, a bright up-and-comer in the Republican Party, should tax the solidarity GOP officials hope to maintain among delegates and possibly be a referendum on past party actions.

Greene raised some eyebrows in the Republican ranks when, as party vice chair, she ran at the Republican State Convention last year as gubernatorial candidate Nolan Karras' running mate.

The Karras-Greene ticket shocked many observers at the convention by placing second among a field of eight candidates for governor and forcing a primary with Jon Huntsman Jr., who ultimately prevailed and became Utah's 16th governor.

Karras, by most accounts, was trailing both Huntsman and Fred Lampropoulos in the delegate race and it may have been the addition of Greene to Karras' ticket that vaulted him over Lampropoulos and into the primary.

But the advantage Greene gave to Karras in the convention possibly became a negative in the primary election, where voters from the general population may not have been as forgiving as the insider Republican delegates over the embarrassment Republicans suffered from the Joe Waldholtz scandal.

Waldholtz was Greene's husband and campaign finance manager when she won the GOP nomination in 1994 to earn a rematch with Democratic Congresswoman Karen Shepherd, who had defeated Greene in 1992.

Greene won the election, but her first term became a nightmare as revelations about campaign funding violations dominated the news coverage of Utah's first Republican female member of Congress.

Waldholtz eventually went to prison in connection with the scandal, Greene divorced him and in a grueling press conference, painted herself as a trusting wife who was duped by a conniving husband. She chose, however, not to run for re-election and speculation about her eventual comeback has circulated in Republican circles ever since.

That comeback seemed to take hold two years ago when Greene easily won the vice chair seat at the convention and became a valued compatriot to GOP Chairman Cannon.

When she elected to run as lieutenant governor, however, some resentment was demonstrated behind the scenes among supporters of Huntsman, and from the camp of Gary Herbert, who dropped out of the governor's race just before the convention to run as Huntsman's lieutenant governor running mate.

The concern was that Greene's role in the Karras campaign might prejudice the party apparatus into favoring one candidate (Karras) over another (Huntsman). That concern was aggravated when State Republican Committee staffer Liv Olafsson took a leave of absence to work on Karras' campaign, then returned to the party after Karras was defeated in the primary.

In a way, the griping over Greene's supposed advantage as a candidate vying for delegate support while being a party officer was deja vu.

In 1994, when Greene ran for Congress, she faced several Republican challengers, and her husband, Waldholtz, was the acting executive director of the State Republican Party. There were several complaints at the time that Waldholtz used his position in the party to give his wife advantages over other Republican hopefuls. Because of that old resentment, at least one prominent Republican who had supported Karras for governor switched to the camp of Olene Walker when Greene was announced as Karras' running mate.

There was some speculation earlier that Cannon might face a serious challenge this month, partly because of the issue of the appearance of party favoritism. But Sen. Orrin Hatch is up for re-election next year and the top office-holder who has to defend his or her seat next traditionally has a say over who is chairman.

Hatch made it clear that Cannon is his guy.

It would not be fair to assume Weiler was running against Greene because of that controversy. He is a relatively young up-and-comer who is an attorney, served as a Woods Cross City Council member and is chairman of the Davis County Republican Party. Colleagues say he is ready to assume more responsibility in the party.

But some delegates, particularly the Huntsman supporters, may still feel a tinge of resentment and, because of that, Greene might be vulnerable. Or, she might prevail again and show a resilience that Republican insiders could find attractive when seeking candidates for future elections.