Republican Primary Candidates for Governor and District 69

Candidate profiles for Republican primaries for State House District 69, and Governor

LOGAN MONSON - DISTRICT 69 CANDIDATE
Logan Monson is running to represent San Juan County in the Utah House of Representatives District 69.
Logan has a deep commitment to our community and to our rural values. Raised in Blanding, Logan has a profound connection to the area.
He currently serves as the Mayor of Blanding, and his previous roles include working as a council member. Additionally, he serves in many other capacities on boards for multiple organizations. 
Professionally, Logan is a nurse administrator and a registered nurse, with his career primarily focused on rural healthcare. His medical experience provides him with the experience needed to advocate for better healthcare services in our rural communities.
Logan’s understanding of these challenges comes from his firsthand experiences in the healthcare system, equipping him with the knowledge and empathy needed to drive meaningful improvements in these areas.
Logan is deeply involved in agriculture and local community service. He has been directly involved with the success of the local Junior Livestock program, which supports young people in their agricultural pursuits. 
Family is the most important part of Logan’s life. He is married to Sara, who is an educator, and together they are raising four children. 
Logan’s family fuels his commitment to promoting and defending our rural values and building a better community for the next generation.
Logan is focused on being a strong voice for the unique needs and values of rural Utah in the state legislature.
His priorities include promoting small, limited government and local land management, supporting law enforcement and school resource officers, upholding conservative values, and advocating for a strong educational system.
He emphasizes minimizing government interference, local control over public lands, backing law enforcement with necessary resources, maintaining conservative principles such as the sanctity of life and Second Amendment rights, and empowering educators within a robust education system. 
He believes in the importance of sustainable development, education, local land management, and healthcare, aiming to ensure that the residents of District 69 have access to essential services and opportunities.
Logan is ready to fight for our rural communities. He will prioritize the issues we face and empower our communities to reach their full potential.
As someone who is raising a family in our rural communities, he is dedicated to protecting our way of life and improving the lives of our residents.
For more information about Logan Monson and his campaign for District 69, please visit his official campaign website at VoteMonson.com. If you have any questions for him, you can reach him directly at (435) 459-9349. 

ALAN "LYNN" JACKSON - DISTRICT 69 CANDIDATE
I am a native Utahn (7 generations) with deep family roots in rural central Utah. I’m married to Kathryn Guymon from Price, Utah. We have 3 beautiful daughters and 6 grandchildren. It is this heritage and my children and grandchildren that compels me to run for this office and work for a better future.
I’ve engaged in public lands and politics in southeastern Utah for the past 40+ years. I spent 32 years working in federal land management directly in the counties in this legislative District - San Juan, Grand, Kane, Garfield, Wayne, and Emery. I served a four year term as a Grand County Commissioner. I’ve worked the past 12 years as a public land consultant. And I’ve spent the past 8 years as the Chair or vice-Chair of the Grand County Republican party.
My understanding of our region’s unique resources and rural needs, my experience in working with our state and federal leaders, and my alarm at the direction the government is taking us, is another reason I decided to run for this office. Representing our 6 counties will require significant knowledge of our landscape, economies and heritage. The job will absolutely require a full-time commitment to address the needs of the 6 counties spread over 28,000 square miles, effectively 1/3 of the state.
My job will be to work for you, but going in I have the following positions that I think are important
to our District. I will strongly oppose federal overreach, and my background in public lands uniquely positions me to know the inner workings of federal land management. I will fight for smaller and less intrusive government at every level, at every opportunity.
I will fight for access and to keep our motorized roads and trails open. I will support efforts to transfer or provide direct management of federal lands to the State of Utah. I will oppose further national monument designations and will fight to reduce or eliminate the two illegally created monuments in our District, and fight to either repeal or significantly restrict the use of the 1906 Antiquities Act.
I support counties gaining more flexibility on spending Transient Room Tax revenues to help our communities with the impacts from tourism. I will fight for and support the rights of private property owners. I will fight for housing and jobs and economic opportunity so our children will no longer have to leave to make their way through life. I will push back against what is happening in our schools with our children and the “woke” DC agenda sweeping the country. I will work to keep our families strong.
I hope the citizens of our District see the value of experience and time commitment to this job that my resume brings. It would be an honor and privilege to represent you in the Utah Legislature. Please feel free to reach out to me with any concerns you may have and check out my website at: lynnforhouse.com. Thank you.

PHIL LYMAN - GOVERNOR
Phil Lyman is a 5th generation Utahn whose bold and fearless leadership is well-known in San Juan County and throughout the region. As county commissioner, Lyman led a peaceful protest against federal closure of public roads.
The following year, the Utah Association of Counties voted Lyman “Commissioner of the Year” for his unrelenting commitment to defend his constituents and their rights.
Lyman’s early career showed he had both the talent and the work ethic to make a significant difference in developing communities.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University followed by a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Utah, Lyman returned to his hometown of Blanding when his father unexpectedly passed away, and assumed responsibility for the CPA firm his father founded.
Lyman co-founded Blanding’s first Rotary Club as the charter president, and created and led the Blanding Area Travel Council.
Lyman has been pivotal in transforming healthcare throughout San Juan County. He helped organize and launch Utah Navajo Health Systems – today the largest private employer in the county.
As a county commissioner, he created the San Juan Public Health Department and expanded public health. As a commissioner, Lyman worked tirelessly to preserve roads and access to public lands and to reduce the vast federal hold on Utah’s public lands.
He served as chair of the Seven-County Infrastructure Coalition, working closely other county commissioners and with federal and state agencies to develop vital infrastructure, including the San Rafael Research Center, pipeline and rail easements for oilfields and improve rail line delivery system, while preserving autonomy for the counties, cities, and families.
As a state legislator, Lyman sponsored or co-sponsored 65 bills in his four sessions, and was chair/co-chair of the conservative caucus throughout his service.
He championed property and water rights, rural healthcare, natural resources management, critical needs of indigenous people, and pushed back on federal attempts to control state areas of authority.
In his personal life, Lyman and his wife Jody have five children, and together enjoy family outings and travel. He treasures his role as a dad and grandpa, and in serving clients.
All of which, he says, drive his commitment to the principles of Statehood-including his drive and passion in standing up to federal and state agencies to protect Utah’s land, water, and energy resources from interference from special interest groups.
Lyman is a proven collaborator, effectively promoting the relationships, from urban to rural to the Navajo Nation, while defending the fundamental liberties and resources that make Utah exceptional.

SPENCER COX - GOVERNER
Governor Spencer J. Cox: Conservative Leadership, Real Results
Born and raised in Central Utah in the small town of Fairview, Governor Cox learned the value of hard work from an early age on the family farm. 
Governor Cox’s tenure has been marked by conservative achievements aimed at enriching the lives of all residents. Working together with the Legislature to fight inflation caused by the federal government, Governor Cox signed the largest tax cut in Utah history – $1.3 billion in all during his first term in office. The previous record was $250 million. Utahns deserve more of their hard-earned money returned to them, and Governor Cox is proud to have done this in each of his four years in office. 
During the last legislative session, Governor Cox supported the herculean efforts of County Commissioner Bruce Adams to build a new San Juan County Hospital, a vital lifeline for the residents of southeastern Utah. This was not funded in initial legislative appropriations until Governor Cox and Commissioner Adams made their case and closed the deal with legislative leadership. 
For decades, Utah Second Amendment supporters have tried and failed to get constitutional carry signed into law. That changed in 2021 when Governor Cox first took office and immediately signed the bill. Protecting rural Utahns Second Amendment rights will always be a priority for Governor Cox. 
This year, Governor Cox worked with legislators to pass comprehensive energy independence legislation that prioritizes reliable, dispatchable, and affordable energy. Utah has some of the lowest electricity prices in the nation, and this legislation will make sure it stays that way. One month after he signed the bill, the owners of the Hunter and Huntington coal-fired power plants announced they would extend the lives of both plants by another decade. 
Education is a priority for Governor Cox. He has prioritized empowering parents and increasing teacher pay, including legislation which granted all Utah teachers a $6,000 pay raise which now ranks their salaries in the top ten in the nation. 
Governor Cox has pushed for increased infrastructure funding, including record investment in water and road projects, especially rural Utah. He is proud of his record moving state jobs off the Wasatch Front and into rural Utah. He worked with legislative leadership to eliminate numerous government boards and commissions and consolidated state agencies to reduce costs to Utah taxpayers. 
He has stood with the State of Texas by sending Utah troops to the border to do what the Biden Administration refuses to do. He is grateful to have received the endorsement of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in this race. 
Governor Cox gets stuff done. And if given the opportunity to do so again, he will continue to prioritize key conservative victories in a second and final term as Utah’s Governor.