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Cage match: LaVar Christensen vs Dan McCay

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Adam Brown

Rep. LaVar Christensen and Rep. Dan McCay are squaring off to fill a vacant seat in the Utah Senate. These two have served a long time together in the Utah House–long enough to cast a lot of opposing votes. So … 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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Cage match: Casey Anderson vs Evan Vickers

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Adam Brown

Rep. Vickers and Sen. Anderson disagree relatively often for members of the same party. Sen. Casey Anderson (R-Cedar City) was appointed last year to serve out the remainder of Sen. Dennis Stowell’s term after his death from cancer. Rep. Vickers … Continue reading →

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Cage match: Patrick Painter vs Ralph Okerlund

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Adam Brown

Rep. Painter and Sen. Okerlund don’t disagree very often. Correction (April 3, 2012): A database error caused my query to omit roughly half of the votes held each year. The omitted votes were roughly random, so the general patterns aren’t … Continue reading →

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Cage match: Craig Frank vs John Valentine

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Adam Brown

Rep. Frank and Sen. Valentine disagree on 7-10% of the bills that pass. Correction (April 3, 2012): A database error caused my query to omit roughly half of the votes held each year. The omitted votes were roughly random, so … Continue reading →

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Cage match: Herrod v Liljenquist

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adam Brown

On bills that pass, Liljenquist and Herrod agree 97% of the time. Chris Herrod has served in the Utah House since 2007. Dan Liljenquist served in the Utah Senate from 2009 through 2011. Both want to replace Orrin Hatch in … 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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