FIVE EASY STEPS TO GET $2,000,000 OF UTAH TAXPAYER’S MONEY Ronald Mortensen, Ph.D., FSO (retired)   1.      Have great political connections with the governor and key state legislators like, say for example, the following do: Matt Lusty (Election Hive campaign management services), Steve Waldrip (Cox Housing Adviser and native Californian) and Derek Brown (lobbyist and former legislator). 2.      Set up a non-profit organization, Utah Workforce Housing Advocacy, shortly before the start of the legislative session with a mission of convincing Utahns that our housing problem is driven by a lack of supply rather than by the excess demand that has been created by the governor’s and legislature’s unlimited growth policies. This allows elected officials, developers and other related business interests to use taxpayer funds to further their agenda by having the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity (GOEO) grant the money to a non-profit (non-governmental organization - NGO). 3.      Have the legislature earmark $1,000,000 of taxpayer funds for your NGO and have it granted to you by GOEO. Note: Senators Jerry Stevenson and Stuart Adams had Election Hive (Lusty) help manage their campaigns and both senators exert tremendous influence over how taxpayer funds are appropriated. 4.      Submit an invoice to GOEO for $750,000 before any contract has been signed and have that invoice quickly paid after the contract is eventually signed over a month later. Once the taxpayer funds are received, funnel them to entities and/or people with close links to UWHA. a.      $62,500 to Bizdevops Consulting, LLC  (Registered agent is RHRD, LLC. RHRD, LLC Manager is Dan Hemmert. Hemmert who is also a Partner in Election Hive); b.      $30,000 to Honey Communications, Matt Lusty and Dan Hemmert, Partners; c.       $100,000 to Envision Utah, (Senate President Stuart Adams, Board of Directors; Jon Cox, Partner Election Hive, Board of Governors). 5.      Even before the first $1,000,000 is spent, ask the legislature for another $2,000,000in order to get an additional $1,000,000. 2024. The Legislature intends that the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity (GOEO) use one-time appropriations allocated in "New Fiscal Year Supplemental Appropriations Act" (House Bill 2, 2024 General Session), Item 67 to grant Utah Workforce Housing Advocacy $1,000,000. GOEO shall distribute the funds consistent with Section 63G-6b-202 after establishing deliverables, reporting, and performance metrics described in Section 63G-6b-202(4) in "State Grant Process Amendments", (House Bill 335, 2024 General Session).   2025. Under the provisions of Utah Code Annotated Title 63G Chapter 6b, the Legislature intends that the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity provide a direct award grant of $1,000,000 to Utah Workforce Housing Advocacy in fiscal year 2026 to inform and educate Utahns as to the benefits of providing first time and workforce housing.   Given the above, how is the way Utah handles taxpayer funds that much different from the way Washington D.C. politicians funnel taxpayer funds to those with great political connections?     Does Utah need its own DOGE? If so, who would you put in charge of it?

This year, I made it a goal to visit all the County Clerks in the Beehive state, to better understand how they administer elections. 🗳️ Earlier this week, I spent most of the day at the Utah County Clerk’s office. Before leaving, I thanked Clerk @ARDavidson for his efforts to reach out to the young voters in his county. I mentioned to @KaiSchwemmer that because of his temporary appointment, he is the benefactor of an extraordinary opportunity, and I admonished him to soak in every detail and then spend his days restoring public trust in Utah's broken the elections process. 🗞️ Imagine my surprise when I read the headline that ‘serious concerns” were raised about the Deputy Clerk's appointment, “among women in elected office”. Then I read the story, it appears to me, this has less to do with Kai Schwemmer and more about Clerk Aaron Davidson. 😱 In other words, all this “pearl clutching” is a calculated political maneuver designed to influence voter decisions and alter the outcome of the County Clerk race. 🐕 Let me explain: At a recent @UtahGOP SCC meeting, @aaroncbullen yelled at one of the women, calling her a "B*tch", because she did not vote for his motion. Chairman @RobertAxson ignored this gender targeted slur. Later, on social media, Chris Null (candidate for @SLCo_Council District 5) told Aaron he did the right thing. Do you see the problem? Fully grown, adult men can objective women in the @GOP with impunity. Did you hear any outcry from the women in this article? No. 🐘 Over the past four months, @SLCountyGOP Chairman Mike Carey ousted 8 women, including Vice Chair @sarahdmontes because of his inability to engage with them on policy differences. So, he resorts to attacking their character and then abusing party bylaws to dismiss them from his presence. Mike Carey’s own brand of politics is fueled by his wounded male ego. Did you hear any outcry from the women in this article? No. 👩‍🌾 Instead, the women in this article, go after a wise County Clerk who is mentoring a young man in the ways of politics, in the hopes that he will use his influence to encourage young adults to be sober about their civic responsibilities. Did I get that right?

WASATCH COUNTY! I hope you will join me this Saturday morning!

What happened to these guys? They got millions from Utah taxpayers, made a few commercials and have now disappeared. Did they just steal our money? Matt Lusty and his Election Hive campaign business are now really busy working for Blake Moore, so seems like Blake instead of taxpayers and they keep our money.

What happened to these guys? They got millions from Utah taxpayers, made a few commercials and have now disappeared. Did they just steal our money? Matt Lusty and his Election Hive campaign business are now really busy working for Blake Moore, so seems like Blake instead of taxpayers and they keep our money.

It’s been fun to see these signs pop up around the state.

My family is large and from the basin. I have been telling all the Harveys, Goodrich’s, Simmons, Wallace’s and others, to many to name, to vote for.@phil_lyman . I had 56 first cousins. We are a legion.❤️

Every time I go through Utah again I am shocked at how much has changed for the worse here. Idaho has gotten some of the same changes but Utahans should be taking these primaries seriously because this is on another level.

Transparency First Rep Ryan Wilcox tried to run this bill in 2024 which would have taken election oversight away from the Governor and Lt Governor. Why was it pulled? Because the Governor said he would only support it AFTER his election!! The Governor “asked” that it be tabled. The AGs office knew for months, well before the primary runoff election, that Cox failed to get his signatures and that there were serious legal problems with the signatures submitted. Why did they wait to do an investigation? You guessed it - because the Governor “asked” them to wait until AFTER the election!! Oh well, what’s one little election? We can go a few more years with an utterly corrupt government in Utah. The siren call of politicians is - “Just wait till you see what we are going to do! Pay no attention to what we’ve done.”

It’s not too much to ask that the government get a warrant to conduct a U.S. citizen query under FISA 702. One must ask: Why does the deep state resist this so aggressively?