I’m a registered Republican in Utah, and I’ve been a regular attendee of my neighborhood caucus meetings for 12 years and counting. I’ve served as a county delegate for approximately eight years and a state delegate for three.

But many members of my family and a number of close friends don’t support most of what the Republican Party stands for in Utah, and yet they don’t have any voice in state politics. How is this fair?

Why is the Utah Legislature so reluctant to give non-Republicans a right to their voice? What are they so afraid of?

Chris Null, the chair of the Salt Lake County Republican Party, makes no secret of the fact that he was an independent in Arizona before he moved here less than 10 years ago. When, in a recent quarterly central committee meeting, I asked him his opinion

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