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Ask candidates for the Utah Senate if they support eliminating the sales tax on food

4/23/2018

 
by Bill Tibbitts, Coalition of Religious Communities Director

On February 20, 2018, the Utah House of Representatives passed HB 148, sponsored by Representative Tim Quinn, that would have eliminated the state portion of the sales tax on food in Utah.  Unfortunately, it did not pass in the Senate.  However, 5 of the 29 members of the Utah Senate are not running for reelection and so there is an opportunity to educate the candidates to replace them about the sales tax on food.   If you are interested in talking to candidates about this issue here are two things you can share with them:

1)The sales tax on food is weird and unpopular.  That is why Only 15 states tax grocery purchases.

​2) Food taxes are regressive and hurt low income families.  Families in the bottom 20 percent for income spend 30 percent of their income on food.  Families in the top 20 percent for income spend less than 10 percent of their income on food.

Here is a list of all the candidates for the Utah Senate general or primary election.
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Rep. Tim Quinn explaining his bill eliminating the state portion of the sales tax on food at CORC's Faith & Poverty Day on January 25, 2018.
 Utah State Senate Candidates
 
Salt Lake County Senate Districts
 
District 2
Democratic Primary candidates:
            Derek Kitchen, derek.kitchen@gmail.com
            Jennifer Plumb, voteplumb@gmail.com
Republican candidate: Chase Winder, chasewinder53@gmail.com
 
District 3
Democratic Candidate: Gene Davis, wgdavis@msn.com
Republican Primary Candidates
            MARLIN R. BAER, mbaer@xmission.com
            JEREMY D. EGAN, eager4egan@gmail.com
 
District 4
Democratic Candidate, Jani Iwamoto, iwamoto.jani@gmail.com
Republican Candidate:  Alan Monsen, ab.monsen@gmail.com
 
Senate District 5
Democratic Candidate Karen Mayne, karenmayne@gmail.com
Republican Candidate:  Kimdyl Allen, kcallen001@aol.com
 
Senate Disrtrict 8(2 year terms)
Democratic Candidate: Kathleen Riebe, mskriebe@gmail.com
Republican Primary Candidate:
            Brian Zehnder, brian@votebrianz.com
            Jaren L. Davis, jarenldavis@gmail.com
 
Senate District 9
Democratic Candidate, Abbey Wright, abigail@jwright.biz
Republican Candidate:  Kirk A. Cullimore, Jr., kcullimorejr@gmail.com
 
Mixed Districts covering Salt Lake and Utah County
 
Senate District 11
Democratic candidate: Christian Burridge, christian.burridge@gmail.com
Republican Primary Candidates
            Dan McCay, vote@danmccay.com
            Delaina Tonks, delainatonks@gmail.com
 
Senate District 12
Democratic Candidate, Clare Collard, electclarecollard@gmail.com
Republican Candidate, Daniel W. Thatcher danielwthatcher@gmail.com

State Senate Candidates from Utah County

Senate District 15
Republican Candidate: Keith Grover, kgrover2014@gmail.com
 
State Senate Candidates from Davis County
 
Senate District 21
Democratic Candidate: Jake Penrod, Jacob.Penrod@outlook.com
Republican Candidate: Stuart Adams, sadams1776@gmail.com
 
Senate District 22 
Republican Candidate:  Stuart Adams, sadams1776@gmail.com
 
State Senate Candidates from Weber County
 
Senate District 17 (not available at time of post)
Democratic Candidate: Michael A.  Keil, mike.keil@comcast.com
Republican Primary Candidates: 
        Clark Davis, davisclark98@gmail.com
        Scott Sandall, sandallscott@gmail.com

Senate District 18
Democratic Candidate: Jason Yu, Jason4senate18@gmail.com
Republican Candidate: Ann Milner, ann@annmilner.com
 
Multi-County Candidates
 
Senate District 26 
Democratic Primary Candidates:
        Eileen Gallagher, gallagherforutahsenate@gmail.com
        Pat Vaughn, patvaughnspeaks@gmail.com
Republican Primary Candidates: 
        Brian K. Gorum, gorum4ut@gmail.com
        Jack Rubin, utahjack26@gmail.com
Senate District 28
Democratic Candidate:  Mark Chambers, mark@undertheeaves.com
Republican Candidate:  Evan J. Vickers, bullochdrug@infowest.com
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