People do love their politics, and one thing about a political convention is that people feel passionately about the power structure.  I went to the State Republican Convention today and voila, what an experience.

We had a couple of really interesting but time using experiences.  The first was that we had an attempt, as perceived by a lot of the delegates, to make a grab at taking away the grass roots nature of the political process in Utah. In affect, the power structure of the top County party leadership would not have had rubber stamped by the delegates their ability to control the selection of some of the delegates.  It took us about 2 hours longer than it should have, but that one was defeated and many people were upset.

The other was the unseating of an incumbent.  Many delegates in our congressional district were unhappy with Chris Cannon and they voted as a majority to send the contest to a primary.  He was so concerned that I actually got a call from him two days before the convention trying to sway my vote.  This will be interesting to see what happens.