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Utah State
Representative Carl Wimmer (R-Herriman) announced Friday that he
will seek a third term as state Representative for House District
#52 in 2010. “We are at a pivotal point in this country. People are
waking up politically and they are coming back to
the core beliefs that made this nation great,” Wimmer said.
Carl Wimmer has
served in the Utah legislature for three years. In May of 2009 Wimmer went on The Glenn Beck
television show and announced the formation of
the nationwide Patrick Henry Caucus, which holds as its sole
objective the reinstatement of balanced federalism as defined in the
10th amendment to the United States Constitution. Carl Wimmer
said that his involvement in the caucus led to his
decision to run for re-election. “With the massive
growth of the Patrick Henry Caucus nationally, I feel an obligation to continue
to help lead this important movement. I believe I can be of
greatest use to the cause of freedom, if I remain in office
until the Patrick Henry Caucus is in all fifty states.”
In addition to his
other responsibilities Carl Wimmer is also the chairman of the largest family based
coalition in Utah, The Family Action Council Team (F.A.C.T). “Representative Wimmer’s leadership and
involvement in this coalition has been priceless, he is a natural
leader” said Laura Bunker one of the founders of the FACT Coalition.
Representative
Wimmer has sponsored some truly landmark pieces of
legislation during his short time in office. In 2008 he sponsored
and passed Utah’s version of “Jessica’s law.” This law made the
murder of a child a capital crime, making the offender eligible for the death
penalty. It also increased the penalties for child sexual
offenses from 3 years in prison to a minimum mandatory 25 years
to life on a first offense, and life without parole on a second
offense. “This law is my crown jewel. I believe this law has done
more good for the protection of our most precious resource, our
children, than anything else I could have done.”
In the 2009
session, Carl Wimmer
sparked another nation-wide movement when he became the first
legislator in the nation to sponsor and pass a state constitutional
amendment guaranteeing the right to vote by secret ballot. The
amendment HJR-8 passed The House and The Senate with the required
two-thirds majority and will be voted on by the people in November
2010. Big labor worked extremely hard to defeat the amendment, because
it included elections for organizing a labor union and is
considered a direct attack against the President Obama supported Employee Free Choice
Act (EFCA). With the passage of HJR-8, Rep. Wimmer started
a national firestorm to stop the EFCA.
Carl Wimmer is aware
that because of his willingness to take on the tough issues, he is
now subject to various attacks from his political opponents, even
from those outside of Utah. “I
have heard that I am the top target (for defeat) for several
organizations. There are particular
special interest groups who will work tirelessly, and spend
tens-of-thousands of dollars in an attempt to defeat me. I must be
ready, and I will be.”
RECOGNITIONS:
Freshman legislator of the year 2007
Child Advocate of the year 2008
Republican Representative of the year
2008
Grassroots Conservative legislator of the year 2008
Taxpayer advocate of the year 2009 |