Utah upsets in the making: State Sen. Chris Buttars behind in close vote, House Speaker Greg Curtis ousted

Published by Professor Les November 4th, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Community Dialogue, Politics, Communication, Current Events. Tags: No Tags.

With nearly half of the votes tabulated:

State House District 49:

Greg Curtis (R), 3,656 (40.4%)
Jay Seegmiller (D), 5,079 (56.13%)

Greg Curtis becomes the first Utah speaker of the house in more than 40 years to be ousted in a re-election bid and it came at the hands of Jay Seegmiller, who lost by just 20 votes to Curtis in 2006. Indeed, the third time was the charm for the challenger.

State Senate District 10:

Chris Buttars (R), 10,950 (47.1%)
John Rendell (D), 11,061 (47.68%)

John Rendell, in his first political campaign, may finally be the one to unseat Sen. Chris Buttars, among the state’s most notorious conservative Republican whose moral crusades have been intricately intertwined with the fear-mongering Eagle Forum. Buttars has a history of verbal gaffes racist and discriminatory in nature.

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