Rescue

Had a wonderful stake conference.

One of the themes was that of rescue.

All to often we want to build fences up to protect us from those we consider sinners. When in reality this is not the Lord's way.

Christ went to those who were sick both spiritually and physically. He labored amongst them and loved them.

If we isolate ourselves from those who need our help; how will we ever help them.

This was the spirit behind the church's recent stand on the discrimination ordinance. While I may have issues based upon property rights, I think the message we all need to know is that we cannot isolate ourselves from those who need our help.

Don Guymon Davis County Republican Party Chairman

Experience

· Masters Business Administration/ 16 Yrs
Management Experience

· Chairman/Editor GrassRoots

· Representing Davis on the State Central Committee 10 years

· Legislative 18 Chair 4 years

· V-Chair State Constitution/Bylaws Committee

· Co-Chair Davis Constitution/Bylaws Comm.

· Davis Rules Chair 3 yrs/Elections Chair 1 Year

· Member Utah Republican: Finance, Rules and Resolutions Committees

· County, State, National Delegate

· Member Election Planning Committee 2006

· Volunteer Boy Scouts of America and Youth Basketball, Baseball and Football


Action

· Author of bylaw requiring candidates to state whether they support the Platform

· Led effort to protect State delegate rights to
amend State Party governing documents

· Led effort to protect integrity of State party
rules in regards to Presidential Primary

· Led effort in Davis to pass Amendment 3
protecting traditional marriage 04

· Sponsored resolution urging State Senate to pass
pro-life legislation at State and County
conventions

· Sponsored resolution calling on presidential
nominee to pick a pro-life vice president

· Author opinion pieces promoting Republican
principles in Salt Lake Tribune, Standard Examiner,
Utah Statesman and Blue Mountain Panorama

· As Legislative Chair surveyed all candidates and
provided surveys to delegates

· Assisted Republican Women in organizing 2006 Primary Candidate Forum

· Public relations work Lincoln Day Dinner 06

Vision




· Continue Republican sweep of Davis elective office through aggressive get out the vote

· Promote Republican Platforms; defend candidates and elected officials with party resources when attacked for support of platform

· Insure all Party members’ voices are heard and informed of Party business through emails and updated website

· Fair and equitable treatment of all candidates (I am forgoing endorsements recognizing that a chair must be seen as neutral to uphold party integrity)

· Efficient Convention and Central Committee Meetings, allowing all sides to be heard

· Enlarge fundraising events to include grassroots support, such as Lincoln Day Dinner

· Full training for executive committee and precinct officers

· Give full assistance to Teenage Republicans and Republican Women

Letter to Delegates

Dear Delegates,

Thank you for your service to our party. Service such as yours is what keeps our republic and party great.

Our party and our nation are at a critical juncture. We must decide if we will remain committed to the principles which have made us the greatest nation on the face of the earth. I believe that a Republican Party committed to its core principles is essential for our nation to remain strong.

As the father of five children, I am concerned for their future. I am blessed to have a supportive wife, who supports me in my efforts to serve the party. In my profession, I currently run the retail operations for a major telecommunications company in the state and have an MBA from Utah State University.

It has been my privilage to represent Davis County on the Republican State Central Committee for 10 years. On the state level I have served as vice chair of the State Constitution and Bylaws committee and as a member of the rules, resolutions and finance committees. This past year I represented Utah as a delegate to the national convention.

I currently serve as Legislative 18 Chair in Davis County and as vice chair of the County Constitution and Bylaws Committee. Prior service includes rules and elections chair.

For the past three years, I have been the chairman of Grassroots and have written their legislative report since 2001 (utahgrassroots.org).

We must continue the Republican sweep of Davis County, while insuring that we remain committed to our platform. Davis County voters must know that their is a real difference between the two parties. In addition, we must operate the party in a way that all feel they have a voice and our elections are run with integrity.

In 2008, I wrote and sponsored a bylaw in Davis County which called on all candidates to state whether they supported the party platform.

Since I was vice chair of the State Constitution and Bylaws Committee, I have joined with others to insure state delegates have a voice in the party. I have spoken on state convention floor to protect the rights of state delegates to sponsor bylaws and constitutional amendments.

I led the effort in Davis County to pass Amendment Three which protected traditional marriage.

In 2004, I sponsored resolutions at county and state conventions which called upon the State Senate to pass an abortion resolution that it has not passed the previous session. The bill passed that session. I also passed resolutions in 2000 which called upon the party to choose a pro life vice presidential nominee.

I am proud to be a conservative who supports our party platform. You know I will stand strong for you and the party because I have done so in the past. If elected I will make my self accessible to you.

Thank You,

Don Guymon

Not Yours to Give

http://www.juntosociety.com/patriotism/inytg.html

As we sink deeper into socialism and as the legislative session meets. The words of Davy Crocket seem appropriate:

Not Yours To GiveCol. David CrockettUS Representative from TennesseeOriginally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him."Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many women and children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done."The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but, as I thought, rather coldly."I began: 'Well, friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings calledcandidates, and---‘"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again.""This was a sockdolager...I begged him to tell me what was the matter.
" ’Well, Colonel, it is hardly worth-while to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it in that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the Constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what, but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.…But an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is.'" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake about it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question.’
“ ‘No, Colonel, there’s no mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that true?’" ‘Well, my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing Treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just as I did.'" ‘It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.' "The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'" 'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking, he would set others to talking, and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:" ‘Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You say that you are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and, perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'" ‘If I don't’, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of the people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'" ‘No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section, but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. This is Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.’" 'Well, I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name.’" 'My name is Bunce.'" 'Not Horatio Bunce?'" 'Yes.’" 'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence and incorruptible integrity, and for a heart brimful and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote."At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and a confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before."Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight, talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm."But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue, and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me."In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:" ‘Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice, or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only.’""I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:" ‘And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error." ‘It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to thecredit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'"He came upon the stand and said:" ‘Fellow-citizens - It affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday."There is one thing now to which I will call your attention. You remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $10,000, when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."

Supporting Traditional Marriage

Shortly after I learned that Governor Huntsman was now supporting “Civil Unions”; I changed my Facebook status to state: “Unlike the Governor; I still support traditional marriage.”

After I posted my update; a response came stating “The Governor only supports civil unions?”

What is the difference?

I personally can’t see any.

Ultimately I wish the government wasn’t involved in the marriage debate. Back in the 1800’s; government laws were aimed at ending polygamy which made many of my ancestors (who were good men) criminals. I wish the business of marriage were left to religions.

But whether I like it or not; government is involved in the debate. Government does sanction marriages now.

On matters such as these I have to turn to what I believe God’s will is. Ultimately I have to strongly believe that marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman.

It's For the Children

This has been the mantra of the left for years. Whatever they do "It's for the children."

If the left is so concerned about the children, then why are they so willing to let the children languish in debt.

I have heard some Republicans say that they are willing to forgive their Republican officials who overspend as long as they are right on abortion.

I am as pro-life as anybody out there (sponsor of numerous resolutions at county and state conventions and speaking at the legislature on the subject) and I would agree that abortion is perhaps the most important issue we face today.

But not far behind is the debt we are leaving to our children. Let's not only save the unborn, let's allow them to have a prosperous society when they grow older.

The Proper Role of Government

In this morning's Salt Lake Tribune it had an article about how Republican governers are attempting to get Republican members of the House to change their votes on the so called stimulus package.

This includes indiviudals whom conservatives are looking to for leadership and as possible presidential candidates.

I for one am disappointed in these governors. While I am glad House Republicans finally decided they believed in fiscal restraint, they should have shown it back in September when President Bush first proposed the bail out.

Below are links to one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard by Ezra Taft Benson on the proper role of government.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gY8fRcXfHI&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&playnext=1&index=96

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mjngR1j_Fk&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&index=97

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pMkTnOvtHc&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&index=98

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7EcXAnELEc&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&index=99

Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcxGThqaAaQ&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&index=100

Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiNhb9o5BBk&feature=PlayList&p=3C8AE6CD718FB7D0&index=101

I would highly recomend that all Americans listen to these inspired words and consider the road we are going down.