Emailed 2/21/26
Fred C. Cox, 2024 Candidate for Utah House District 30,
"I
believe we must stand up and be heard or watch our constitutionally
protected rights disappear. We can't continue to let government take
over our lives".
That
was the reason I ran for office when my State Representative, Ron
Bigelow, stepped down to help the Governor at the end of 2010, and it is
still so today.
I had the opportunity to serve in the Utah House
of Representatives in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016. During that time, I
had a reputation of being willing to speak up and to fight for and vote
for what I believed was right, no matter the opposition.
I also
had the reputation of reading though all of the bills I would vote on,
and after the 2016 session a comedy song joked that I might have known
other legislators' bills better than they did. During my service, I had
one of the best floor attendance records of anyone in the House, with
the exception of one rare House Judiciary Standing Committee meeting
called during floor time where I missed 12 votes in 2015. They were the
only ones I missed that year. I wanted to be in the chamber during
debates and voting so I could hear both sides of an issue and see if a
bill was ready or needed to be amended or voted down. "Motion to Amend"
was something I said more than once. I always voted for or against the
bill no matter who the sponsor was or what party they belonged to. The
last few years the Utah House of Representatives has created a "Fred Cox
Award" to pass on to legislators that find items that need corrections
that everyone else missed.
Please come to one of my Town Hall meetings and help me understand the issues that are important to you.
I have scheduled public town hall meetings on the following dates. Bring your friends.
Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 6:30pm, West Valley City Library (near the mall)
Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 6:30pm, Hunter Library
Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 3:30pm, Hunter Library
I am the only Republican candidate that filed "convention only", and so the Caucus meeting on March 17th and Convention on April 17th and April 18th, matter to my race. I need your vote.
Fred C. Cox