A forward thinking approach

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The Utah Democratic Party has committed resources across the state to support red, blue, and purple counties.  

• UDP brought back and expanded the County Grant Program.  Continuing to invest in all of our counties.
• Started up a new Caucus Night Grant program that let over 50,000 democrats know about their upcoming Caucus Night. 
• Fundraising and implementing two new hires of a County and Municipal Director that will be focused on assisting municipal and county candidates and organizing our county parties.  Also, a Legislative Director that supports all of our state house and senate candidates.
• UDP also hired the most Field Directors in UDP history and committed for the first time to have field staff in every region of the state.  
• We provided free and discounted VoteBuilder to our Congressional candidates.
• Creating the first of it's kind GOTV Program that targeted Democrats in all corners of our state saving our candidates up and down the ballot thousands of dollars.

There is always more to do and I look forward to continuing to grow the relationships I have made with all of our county party leaders and elected officials.  It will take all 29 counties to be supported for us to grow as a true state-wide party and be competitive state wide.  

Messaging and branding has always been an issue for the state party.  As someone who has led a county party and ran for office the question I got was "What do Democrat's stand for?".  

UDP has a great communication team that is putting the republicans on defense.  We know what we stand for as Democrats.  We stand for working families, Utah's children, and protecting public lands.  All while the Republican Party seems to stand for undermining our elections, attacking our teachers, and protecting realtors and developers.

Together we have done the following: 

• Started weekly talking point emails that help county parties and candidates with messaging.
• Provided free assistance to counties and candidates who need help with social media and websites.
• Offered free photo shoots for candidates and low-cost state-wide mail program.

The Utah Democratic Party has worked to build a strong relationship with neighboring state parties and the DNC.  This work has led to the following: 

• The Red State Program (unprecedented monthly funding from the DNC).
• Salt Lake City hosted the DNC as one of its headquarters in summer of 2022.  Bringing in national politicos like DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison.
• Trainings from those who have been successful in turning red states to blue.  
• Voted for a more inclusive Presidential Primary Calendar.  This move has made Utah a competitive state for future presidential democratic primaries.
• Passing resolutions in support of communities of color.
• Bringing back the LDS Score on Votebuilder.  This has not been done since 2012.