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Republican Rep. Rex Shipp is running for another term to represent Utah House District 71 after nearly eight years of service in the Legislature.

Another candidate is vying for his position, though: Democrat Thomas Loveheart.

Loveheart lives in Cedar City and works with incarcerated young people at the Southwest Utah Youth Center, according to his website.

House District 71 spans much of the eastern half of Iron County, including Cedar City and Parowan, an area where water and data centers have been front of mind for residents.

Voters will go to the polls Nov. 3 — or vote via other means before that — to decide who will represent them in the Utah State Legislature next year. Voters must drop mail ballots in a drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day or return by mail in time to reach the clerk by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

The Salt Lake Tribune posed the following questions to each of the candidates. Candidates submitted photos and answers through a questionnaire. Answers may have been edited for style and clarity. Candidate responses are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

Shipp did not respond to the questionnaire.

Utah voters told us government corruption is their top concern in this year’s election. Why do you think voters feel this way? And why should Utahns trust you to represent them?

Loveheart: Corruption in Utah is real. For decades, politicians have cut sweetheart deals with real estate, mining and oil interests — selling off public lands for corporate profit, forcing data centers on communities that never asked for them and rewriting ballot initiatives that are inconvenient to them or their donors while corporate PACs effectively decide who gets elected. I’m fed up. Voters should trust me because I have nothing to gain from protecting a rigged system and everything to gain from fixing it.

Shipp: Did not answer.

Utahns told us affordability is their second-highest priority in this election. How would you help Utahns afford housing, groceries, gas and other day-to-day expenses?

Loveheart: Utahns work too hard to not afford basic necessities. I’ll fix skyrocketing home prices, not by subsidizing politically-connected private developers, but by building public housing with rents tied to income. This will add permanently affordable stock to the market and drive down costs. I’d tax data center emissions to fund community-owned clean energy co-ops that slash utility bills, restore the Medicaid expansion our Legislature gutted and repeal our statewide wage-preemption law so cities can raise pay.

Shipp: Did not answer.

Water resources were also a top concern for voters. What policies would you support as Utah looks to balance growth with preservation of the Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River?

Loveheart: Saving the Great Salt Lake isn’t optional — its collapse threatens billions in economic activity and exposes Utahns to toxic dust storms. The fix is restoring inflows by using less upstream, not billion-dollar diking schemes or fantasy seawater pipelines. I’ll fight for enforceable lake protections, require long-term water planning for new development and fix our backwards “use it or lose it” law that punishes farmers for saving water. Corrupt politicians tied to real estate and big ag can’t keep writing the rules.

Shipp: Did not answer.

What is another topic you care about and want to address if elected to public office?

Loveheart: I want to end corporate control of our elections. Utah should follow the lead of states like Maryland and Hawaii by introducing our own “Corporate Power Reset” legislation — editing state corporate law to say that political spending is no longer a power granted to state-chartered corporations, effectively bypassing the disastrous Citizens United SCOTUS decision. Billionaires and corporations shouldn’t get to buy our democracy. Elections should be decided by citizens, not the highest bidder.

Shipp: Did not answer.

How will you vote on Constitutional Amendment A? If passed, the amendment will stop the practice of publishing the full text of amendments and ballot questions by lawmakers in a newspaper for 60 days ahead of an election and instead require that text to be published on two state websites.

Loveheart: Against.

Shipp: Did not answer.

How will you vote on Constitutional Amendment B? If passed, citizen-proposed laws that increase taxes would need to be approved by 60% of voters, instead of a simple majority.

Loveheart: Against.

Shipp: Did not answer.

What’s your favorite book and why?

Loveheart: I’m a big reader, and picking a single favorite is hard, but I quite enjoyed Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here.” Written in 1935, it imagines fascism arriving via a populist demagogue exploiting real grievances while dismantling democracy from within.

Shipp: Did not answer.