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Recap: Looking back at the 2013 Utah Legislature

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Adam Brown

I’ve posted tons of stats about the Utah Legislature in the past couple days. To recap, here’s a quick summary of some of what you can now find here: Do legislators work enough to justify their salary? If you take … Continue reading →

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Who missed the most votes in 2013?

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Adam Brown

With so much going on in such a short session, it may be inevitable that legislators may miss lots of votes Utah’s Constitution limits the Legislature to convening for only 45 days each year. Once you take out the weekends, … Continue reading →

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Do Utah Legislators work enough to justify their salary?

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Adam Brown

It’s not much of a stretch to claim that Utah Legislators earn poverty wages. Since passage of HJR006 early in 2013, Utah Legislators will earn $16,500 per year. It can be difficult to know how many hours legislators put in … Continue reading →

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Did gerrymandering produce Republican gains in the Utah Legislature?

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Adam Brown

Single member districts are always going to give the minority party fewer seats than votes, and the disparity gets larger as the minority party gets smaller. I wrote last week that the 2013 Utah Legislature will be the second-most Republican … Continue reading →

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Redistricting is not expected to change the partisan balance of Congress

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Adam Brown

They conclude that Utah did not experience a partisan gerrymander of its US House seats. In a painstaking state-by-state analysis of all 435 U.S. House seats, some sharp political scientists predict that the 2011 redistricting round will have no net … Continue reading →

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Cage match: Janice Fisher and Fred Cox

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Adam Brown

Representatives Cox and Fisher disagreed 54% of the time on close votes. The new legislative district maps adopted a few months back placed two Utah legislators into the same district: Republican Fred Cox and Democrat Janice Fisher. Now that both … Continue reading →

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Why is Utah’s turnout falling?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Adam Brown

In the 1980s, Utah ranked in the top 10 for voter turnout; since 2006, Utah has ranked in the bottom 5. Why? Earlier today, I wrote about Utah’s declining turnout, and about claims made yesterday in a legislative committee that … Continue reading →

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Cage match: Fred Cox and Janice Fisher

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adam Brown

On close votes, Fred Cox and Janice Fisher disagree 57% of the time. Update: I produced a new “cage match” post in July 2012 comparing Cox and Fisher. I encourage you to read that one, as this one is now … Continue reading →

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What do Romero and McAdams disagree on?

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Adam Brown

Looking across all 1,416 votes, Romero and McAdams disagreed only 64 times Ross Romero, the Democratic leader in Utah’s Senate, announced in September that he would run for Salt Lake County mayor.A few weeks later Ben McAdams, Romero’s Democratic colleague … Continue reading →

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Do Wimmer and Sandstrom agree on everything?

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Adam Brown

Wimmer and Sandstrom have voted against each other 257 times We now have two Republican members of the state legislature planning to run against each other in the newly-created 4th Congressional district. It’s been clear for months that Carl Wimmer … Continue reading →

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