Rep. Blake Moore faced two GOP rivals at nomination convention

Utah Rep. Blake Moore faced off against rival Tina Cannon at the Cache County nomination convention at Green Canyon High School on Mar. 26. Candidate Julie Fullmer also spoke at the convention, while rivals Andrew Badger and William Campbell were absent.

NORTH LOGAN – Only three candidates for the Utah’s Congressional District 1 seat spoke to local GOP delegates at their convention on Saturday, Mar. 26.

They were incumbent U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) and rivals Tina Cannon and Julie Fullmer.

Moore is seeking re-election for the first time.

“I view Cache Valley as the American dream,” the congressman said. “You have one of the most diverse economies in the entire state. You have small business opportunities. You have an agriculture community. You have Utah State University with the Space Dynamics Laboratory.”

What has “one-party-one rule” under the Democrats meant over the past 15 months?

“Absolutely horrible energy, economics and foreign policy,” Moore said. “These are bad outcomes that result from bad policy.”

In energy, President Joe Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline in his first day in office. What happened? Your gas prices tripled, Moore said.

In economics, Biden spent $1.9 trillion in pure deficit spending masquerading as a COVID-19 relief package. What happened? Inflation of prices that hits every one of you, Moore said.

But Republicans are going to win back the Senate and the House, Moore pledged, and end one-party rule.

Cannon describes herself as a fiscal conservative with a “passion for honest, ethical government.” Her background in accounting and taxation has earned Cannon the endorsement of former nine-term congressman Rob Bishop.

“I understand that partisanship is not the goal of good government,” she said. “Good policy is the goal of good government.

“If you can achieve bipartisanship on the way to good policy, all the better. But you never give up good policy in the name of bipartisanship. That’s how you end up $30 trillion in debt.”

In a backhand slap at Moore, who lives outside the 1st Congressional District, she added: “I know whose interest I represent … I’m all in on Utah’s 1st Congressional District. I choose to live here.”

Julie Fullmer has founded several national and international businesses. She has been a resident of Vineyard, Utah since 2011 and mayor of that community since 2018.

“I got to take our city through the pandemic,” Fullmer said.

“We had the first 15 days to flatten the curve …” she explained. “Then the state started to extend everything. People were asking us to put in mask mandates. People were asking us to take executive powers and people we asking us to take emergency powers.

“It was so disheartening to watch people to close their businesses; people to lose their jobs; and our children’s education fall by the wayside. People were calling me telling me that they were afraid to go outside.”

So Fullmer took a stand and refused to go along with the mask mandates and all the rest.

That’s the kind of leadership we need in Washington, she said.

The other Republican rivals to Moore include Andrew Badger, a fifth generation Utahn. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College and a master’s degree in diplomacy from the University of Oxford.

Badger served as an intelligence officer for six years.

Also running for Moore’s seat is William Campbell, who proudly describes himself as a political outsider.

A resident of Davis County, he is the chief financial officer of Autoliv Americas and a member of the boards of directors of the Habitat for Humanity and the Special Olympics.

Utah’s 1st Congressional District includes all or parts of 10 counties in northern Utah, although the district’s boundaries will be slightly realigned due to the recent reapportionment based on the 2020 Census.

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2 Comments

  • KA March 29, 2022 at 8:17 am Reply

    The president, regardless of party, has nothing to do with gas prices. Why do Republicans keep pushing this BS? is it because their voters are really stupid?

  • skeetr March 29, 2022 at 2:22 pm Reply

    Lol

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