Jordy Blog

The trouble with pizza girls (and everyone else these days) is that they blog.
I love the internet and its bountious opportunities for citizen journalism.  Ten years ago you would never have heard this story.
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My brother Gabe wrote an interesting post highlighting how Google Trends searches show that Utah is a hotbed of Open Source. It reminded me that I haven’t plugged the Utah Open Source Conference that’s happening this week. This conference is something you don’t want to miss.  I think you can still get tickets.
If your business [...]

I blogged that this was happening, and now it’s happened.  I liked David’s Garber’s summary of the Utah GOP’s delegate bait and switch so much that I got permission to post it its entirety:
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It’s official! This morning, by a vote of 70 supporters to 12 opponents, Utah’s state Republican Party’s Central Committee voted to adopt [...]

Rob Alexander is one of the few Ron Paul endorced candidates running for State office; and he happens to be running in Utah.  He’s running as a State Representative on the Republican ticket against a Democrat incumbent in the Utah’s 35th District.
I know Rob.  I think he’s a good guy, and I like his politics [...]

The Deseret News is reporting that Governor Huntsman has ordered the Utah State Department of Commerce to monitor gas prices.
That’s just politics as usual, but I’m alarmed by how many people here in “conservative” Utah are commenting that they want the government to step in and “do something” rather than just “monitor”. It’s like we’re [...]

I thought these emails were insightful as to the way the insider politics work in the Utah GOP:
—–Original Message—–
From: Ivan DuBois [mailto:idubois@utgop.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:15 PM
To: Utah Republican Party
Subject: State Central Committee Issue
Importance: High
Dear State Central Committee Member:
Today we received a written request from State Central Committee member Mark Shurtleff to give our [...]