St. George, Utah – The campaign for Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Rob Latham is grateful to be the first outside the two-party system included in a debate hosted by the Utah Debate Commission for a statewide race.
“Making the debate stage is not something a person does on their own,” said Latham. “It is not lost on me that I'm carrying the messages of fellow Utahns who are not satisfied with what the Uniparty candidates have to offer and want different voices to be heard.”
“Liberty-minded Utahns are excited for this opportunity and are humbled by the support,” added Latham. “We invite our fellow Utahns to join us on this journey Wednesday evening and thereafter.”
“My sense is that the organizers are also excited that more Utahns will be able to hear from an alternative on the ballot to the regime candidates, rather than just another boring conversation between representatives of the Uniparty’s Blue and Red Teams,” observed Latham.
Among the debate guests invited by the Latham campaign are family and friends, which include family integrity advocates, electoral reform advocates, jury nullification advocates, medical freedom advocates, medical cannabis advocates, people opposed to Amendment D, people opposed to the death penalty, and people opposed to the state budget almost doubling in the past five years. During Monday’s virtual “coin-flips” to determine speaking order, Latham won two out of the three, and will be giving the last closing statement and appear first at the post-debate media scrum. The incumbent will be the last to take the first question from debate moderator -- “Mr. Establishment” and the Wesley Mouch of Utah politics -- Jason Perry.
“Although we see each other annually at University of Utah alumni dinners in southern Utah,” said Latham, “Jason Perry hasn’t spoken to me at those events since 2020 after agreeing that it would be a good idea to include me for a Libertarian perspective, and then snubbing me when it came time to interview candidates for the Second Congressional District race that year; an election year in which Latham also qualified for the general election debate hosted by the Utah Debate Commission.”
“Looking forward to the opportunity to make up for the snub – to which so many invisibilized and gaslighted Utahns have become familiar -- with one of the state of Utah’s most richly-compensated employees and recent recipient of the Bronze Minuteman Award from former Utah National Guard Maj. Gen. Michael Turley,” said Latham.
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