Thirty-five percent, or, 29,761 votes. That’s all the support I could muster in my bid for Salt Lake County Council. Of course, I wasn’t the only Republican to get trounced in November, mostly in Salt Lake County. But it still stung.
Yes, I ran against a big name in Salt Lake, and yes, I was attempting to flip the seat from D to R, but I still thought I had a chance, by reaching out to both sides and appealing, really, to the middle. The final numbers, though, showed that in fact, I did not have a chance.