Whether you agree or not with the situation that put Crag Frank out of office or if you agree or not with the special election that took place tonight, you have to stand in amazement that a political blogger has been able to rise to legislator.
Holly Richardson, writer of the Holly on the Hill Blog, has successfully been chosen by delegates to replace Rep. Craig Frank in district 57. She began her political blogging in 2009 and has quickly risen to blogger stardom in Utah as one of the top political bloggers. Her blogging has helped her draw a large following and prepared her for this opportunity to be chosen.
The legislature and the Governor will still need to ratify what the delegates have done tonight. Eitherway this is a huge move forward for political blogging and bloggers in general.
Congrats to Holly, I wish you the best of luck,
...maybe now I can get a link on her blog.
Read more here: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51151338-76/frank-richardson-delegates-district.html.csp
2 comments:
Democracy, Utah-style. Last November, Democrat James Crismon received 1,354 votes. But Holly Richardson wins the seat with 62 votes.
Fantastic Point! Which is why I opened the blog post the way I did.
Should they have automatically given it to the democrate or the runner up from the last election? Should we have had a special election?
Or do we let the delegates decide? If Craig Frank had resigned for health reasons we would have had the Delegates decide. But he resigned because he was inelligble to be elected.
Somethings to think about.
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