Bridgewater comes out the leader in our return to greatness!

Tim Bridgewater left the convention today as about as happy as he could get going into a primary with Mike Lee.

The real race today was the race for the senate seat that Bob Bennett has held for the last 17 1/2 years. I ran for delegate on the fact that I could not vote for Bob Bennett, it was time for him to come home. To Senator Bennett, I thank him for his service over the three terms. He served well, not as well as we had hoped on a few issues, but he did serve Utah.

Going into the convention today, I had predicted that the three candidates coming out of the first round of votes would be Mike Lee first, Tim Bridgewater second, and Bob Bennett third. I predicted that the second round would be Tim Bridgewater first with him picking up the majority of Cherilyn Eagar’s votes. Mike lee would be second and Bob Bennett would be dropped from the ballot. I then predicted that Tim Bridgewater would pick up about 2/3 of Bob Bennett’s votes and push very close to the 60% to avoid a primary.

The results were:

Round one: Mike Lee over Tim Bridgewater by about 2% with Bob Bennett coming in third and Cherilyn Eagar in fourth.

Round two: Tim Bridgewater moved ahead of Mike Lee by 2% and Bob Bennett came in a distant third and was eliminated.

Round three: Tim Bridgewater picked up the majority of Bob Bennett’s votes and took a substantial lead in the voting with 57.28% of the vote, just short of the 60% needed to be the candidate without a primary in June.

It is amazing how well I understood what was going to happen at the convention after spending the last month and a half talking to and listening to the candidates. Sometimes I surprise myself! But it was a good surprise, especially after endorsing Tim Bridgewater for Senate.

Tim will do well in the primary. He is a hard worker, a smart businessman, he has a desire to serve, a passion to make government smaller, a mind that thinks quickly (evidenced by his very astute moves to welcome the Eagar votes by complimenting her after the first round and the tribute he paid to Bob Bennett as he left the field going into the third round) and most importantly to me, he has H.I.T., honesty, integrity, and truth. I get a peaceful feeling when I think of Tim as our next senator.

You will be hearing from me about Tim Bridgewater more in the future. If you are wondering whom to support, I definitely endorse and suggest Tim.

Morgan Philpot came through as the candidate in the 2nd District facing the primary winner for the Democrats. Yes, Jim Matheson did not win the nomination in the convention! Gary Herbert won the nomination for Governor over Dan Oaks. Okay, I didn’t think Dan would win at the convention, but I thought he would do better. But, as far as Gary Herbert goes, we will be fine with him as a candidate. He has heard the masses and is selling fiscal conservatism hard. Hopefully he will take up the banner against illegal immigration as well and will continue his fight for reclaiming Utah’s land from the federal government. Rob Bishop did well and came out as the nominee in the 1st District with Jason Chaffetz running unopposed in the Third District. These are two of the incumbents that I have said deserve to return to Washington DC because of their conservative fight for our country and state.

The party business at the end of the convention went rather well with no changes that gave any further power to the feds or the state level over individuals and their communities.

This was a definite victory for individuals in the State of Utah. We will be the talk of the country for the next week and will continue to be referenced to during this election year.

I was honored to be trusted by my neighbors and friends and hope that my votes were made well for a return to the greatness we have had in the past.

Make sure you are registered to vote, vote in the primaries, and most of all bring your neighbors, friends and family to the polls with you in November and we will take back control of the overpowered, out of control federal government and let those with our vision of the future represent us in a return to greatness and a better future for us, our children, our grandchildren and their children!