At 9:00 PM November 5, 2026, I relaxed and re-read my posts. I don’t read everything in the morning. I read this article – for the first time – and I am amazed! I did not know there were LDS Democrats.
Above are the two Sisters I met at Walmart posing in front of my painting of two Pages saving the the leather boxes containing the Our Votes that a mob of Insurrectionists would have burned. I believe the Republican Party is extinct. I am asking Mitt Romney to claim this party co-founded by my kin, John Fremont. and born….
LDS DEMOCRATS
This resurrected party will adhere to the philosophy[hy of Fremont.
John Presco
“Eric Biggart — a longtime Democratic strategist in Salt Lake County who is a member of the Utah Democratic Party’s executive committee and chair of LDS Democrats — said disbelief initially washed over him as he scrolled down, down, down through the state legislative race results.
“‘Blue tsunami’ hits Utah: House Republicans on pace to lose 17 seats, breaking supermajority
If preliminary results hold, Utah House Democrats will pick up 15 seats and unaffiliated candidates will take 2. And another powerful Senate Republican leader is slated to lose. Here’s how that could shake up the GOP-controlled Utah Legislature”
ByKatie McKellar-November 4, 2026 5:40 pm
Lawmakers work in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on the final night of the legislative session, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
By the time Utah’s election night results were posted at 9 p.m. Tuesday, it was already clear that Democrats were sweeping the nation in a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Though margins indicated Democrats here were performing far better than they usually do, Utah’s congressional races largely came down as expected. Rep. Ben McAdams overwhelmingly won the state’s new Democratic-leaning congressional district that turned blue after an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit resulted in new, court-ordered boundaries. And Utah’s other three red districts were unsurprisingly won by GOP incumbents, Reps. Blake Moore, Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy.
But what wasn’t expected in mostly Republican-controlled Utah came down the ballot.
Eric Biggart — a longtime Democratic strategist in Salt Lake County who is a member of the Utah Democratic Party’s executive committee and chair of LDS Democrats — said disbelief initially washed over him as he scrolled down, down, down through the state legislative race results.
There weren’t just a handful of Democratic candidates beating Republican incumbents and in the lead to flip open seats previously held by the GOP supermajority, as Utah Democrats had hoped for in a best-case scenario. They were leading in far more.
“There was never a world where we were looking at double-digit (wins) being on the table this year,” Biggart told Utah News Dispatch Wednesday. He said they had hoped for maybe four to seven seats — but in the teens? That was unthinkable.
Yet as of Wednesday morning, unofficial election results show Democrats are in the lead to pick up 15 seats in the Utah House, and unaffiliated candidates are slated to take two. Republicans are on track to lose 17 seats. In the Senate, Republicans are poised to lose two seats to Democrats.
Election results are preliminary, with thousands more still needing to be tallied. But to political pundits, aside from a couple of races with razor-thin margins, the results are likely to hold.
That puts Republicans on pace to lose their two-thirds, veto-proof supermajority in the House. They’re projected to still have a simple majority, 44 of the House’s 75 seats. And the Senate will still be controlled by a GOP supermajority, with 20 seats to Democrats’ eight. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfT1o4gB5bZ/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Futahnewsdispatch.com&rp=%2F2026%2F11%2F04%2Fblue-tsunami-utah-house-republicans-could-lose-17-seats-breaking-supermajority%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A612.6000001430511%2C%22ls%22%3A246.30000019073486%2C%22le%22%3A518%7D
But for a state that hasn’t seen a House chamber without a GOP supermajority since 1993 — and no recent memory of Democrats sweeping that many seats in a single election year — it’s extraordinary.
Biggart said he and other Utah Democratic strategists have spent years trying to carve a path toward breaking the supermajority, but they expected it to take eight or 10 years — not all in one election.
The “blue tsunami” washing over the nation made landfall in Utah, Utah Democratic Party Chair Brian King said Tuesday night. Political pundit Taylor Morgan agreed, but he said he hadn’t expected the way it seeped down into local legislative races.
“I was absolutely shocked. I was flabbergasted, blown away,” Morgan, a political consultant with the lobbying and public affairs firm Morgan & May, told Utah News Dispatch on Wednesday.
He said he expected Democrats to do well in Salt Lake County — but what he didn’t expect was that phenomenon to be so widespread in counties up and down the Wasatch Front, the Wasatch Back and beyond.
“Goodness gracious,” he said. “Look at Davis County. Look at Weber County. They’re both blue. Utah County results are blue in so many ways.”
And Morgan said he didn’t expect so many voters who weren’t Democrats “to turn out to vote and intentionally vote for the Democratic candidates down ballot to punish the Republican party.”
“This is the first time in my lifetime that a national election wave has also taken over the Utah ballot like this,” Morgan said. “It is frankly unprecedented.”
Morgan’s firm built a website to track the results and their impact on the balance of power in the Utah Legislature. He told Utah News Dispatch he expects most Democrats to keep their leads as vote tallies are finalized in coming weeks.
What happened? To both Biggart (a Democrat) and Morgan (a Republican), it wasn’t just Utahns fed up with Trump and an energized Democratic base. It was also Utahns of other political stripes — even some Republicans — having yearslong, mounting frustration with how the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature has handled redistricting, ballot initiatives, unions and other issues, along with an ongoing wave of outcry over data centers and development.
“That combined with a general repudiation of the Republican Party, because of Donald Trump, I think that caught up with Utah legislative Republicans,” Morgan said.
To Biggart, the blue wave was fueled “50-50” by Trump and a frustration with Utah Republican legislators.
“Data centers and gerrymandering and Amendment B and Amendment D before that, all these tricks and power grabs, have weighed on people,” Biggart said. “We’ve reached a point where Democrats are organized. And we’ve knocked literally hundreds of thousands of doors and sent hundreds of thousands of texts to a degree we’ve never done before.”
Democrats, Biggart said, “ran a professional, world-class campaign for these candidates in these targeted races. And it worked.” And he said the results show Utah independents and even some Republicans “have just had it.”
“The Trump effect,” he said, was “a nice kicker at the end.”
Another powerful Senate Republican on track to lose his seat
When one of Utah’s most powerful Republicans, Senate President Stuart Adams, lost his primary election to GOP challenger Stephanie Hollist, apparently that was just the beginning.
Now Adams’ No. 2, Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore, was trailing his Democratic challenger, Shana Anderson, by nearly 14 percentage points as of Wednesday.
It was an upset in Sandy, Draper, Alta, Highland and Alpine areas making up Senate District 19 that perhaps only Anderson herself saw coming.
“I keep hearing people say how surprised they are, but I actually was not surprised at all,” Anderson, a U.S. Army veteran and stay-at-home mom who lives in Sandy, told Utah News Dispatch Wednesday. “I’ve been out there talking to voters, and I knew where everybody was at.”
She’s not claiming victory yet, noting there are still votes to be tallied. But she said she was happy to see “voters coming out and letting their voices be heard.”
Cullimore did not return a request for comment Wednesday. Anderson said she hasn’t heard from him, and he hadn’t called her to concede.
Anderson’s experience on the campaign trail reflected Biggart and Morgan’s takeaways. She said she heard from a lot of people “upset with the Trump administration,” but also many who were directly frustrated with Cullimore’s track record, especially when it came to supporting school voucher programs or anti-public union legislation.
“I had volunteers coming out of the woodwork from all different angles because of what he’s been doing,” Anderson said. “And I honestly think he had no idea that people were paying attention. And people would try to reach out to him, but he would not listen or respond to them.”
Largely, Anderson said the perception she heard from her district’s voters was that Cullimore “has not been doing the job” representing their interests.
“He’s been working for people in power, people with money, and special interests. And he’s not been working for the people in his district,” she said. “It wasn’t even a heavy lift, to be honest.”
How will this shake up the Legislature?
To Morgan, Cullimore’s likely loss and Democrats’ gains in the House will send reverberations through the halls of the Utah Capitol.
Before the election, Cullimore and Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, were in a tight race to replace Adams as the next Senate president. Now that race — which will be decided in a closed caucus meeting Friday night — has a new, giant question mark over it. Will Vickers take it? Or will a different candidate swoop in to run in Cullimore’s place?
“That election has been shaken up completely,” Morgan said.
And because the House is slated to lose so many Republicans and get so many new Democratic faces, Morgan expects even House Speaker Mike Schultz might be in for a shakeup.
“Speaker Mike Schultz has lost 15 members of his caucus, some of whom will be really devoted to Speaker Schultz,” Morgan said. “Will now Speaker Schultz face a challenger within his caucus for the speakership because of what happened?”
Additionally, Morgan wondered if House Democratic leadership might see some changes due to all the new members.
Committee assignments, chair positions and policy priorities are all influenced by who is in House and Senate leadership, so the implications run deep, Morgan said.
To Biggart, the political aftershock of this year’s elections will energize Democrats in Utah like never before — and he expects more candidates willing to run now that they’ve seen what’s possible in traditionally red Utah. Now that it appears the House supermajority has been cracked, Biggart said that will open the floodgates.
“It’s at that point where people really start to believe, where people start to donate, start to knock on doors, start to make those text messages to their friends and family,” Biggart said. “Because when it’s on the margins and it feels real, all of a sudden it becomes a lot easier to do.”
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‘Blue tsunami’ hits Utah: House Republicans on pace to lose 17 seats, breaking supermajority
If preliminary results hold, Utah House Democrats will pick up 15 seats and unaffiliated candidates will take 2. And another powerful Senate Republican leader is slated to lose. Here’s how that could shake up the GOP-controlled Utah Legislature
ByKatie McKellar-November 4, 2026 5:40 pm
Lawmakers work in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on the final night of the legislative session, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
By the time Utah’s election night results were posted at 9 p.m. Tuesday, it was already clear that Democrats were sweeping the nation in a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Though margins indicated Democrats here were performing far better than they usually do, Utah’s congressional races largely came down as expected. Rep. Ben McAdams overwhelmingly won the state’s new Democratic-leaning congressional district that turned blue after an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit resulted in new, court-ordered boundaries. And Utah’s other three red districts were unsurprisingly won by GOP incumbents, Reps. Blake Moore, Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy.
But what wasn’t expected in mostly Republican-controlled Utah came down the ballot.
Eric Biggart — a longtime Democratic strategist in Salt Lake County who is a member of the Utah Democratic Party’s executive committee and chair of LDS Democrats — said disbelief initially washed over him as he scrolled down, down, down through the state legislative race results.
There weren’t just a handful of Democratic candidates beating Republican incumbents and in the lead to flip open seats previously held by the GOP supermajority, as Utah Democrats had hoped for in a best-case scenario. They were leading in far more.
“There was never a world where we were looking at double-digit (wins) being on the table this year,” Biggart told Utah News Dispatch Wednesday. He said they had hoped for maybe four to seven seats — but in the teens? That was unthinkable.
Yet as of Wednesday morning, unofficial election results show Democrats are in the lead to pick up 15 seats in the Utah House, and unaffiliated candidates are slated to take two. Republicans are on track to lose 17 seats. In the Senate, Republicans are poised to lose two seats to Democrats.
Election results are preliminary, with thousands more still needing to be tallied. But to political pundits, aside from a couple of races with razor-thin margins, the results are likely to hold.
That puts Republicans on pace to lose their two-thirds, veto-proof supermajority in the House. They’re projected to still have a simple majority, 44 of the House’s 75 seats. And the Senate will still be controlled by a GOP supermajority, with 20 seats to Democrats’ eight. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfT1o4gB5bZ/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Futahnewsdispatch.com&rp=%2F2026%2F11%2F04%2Fblue-tsunami-utah-house-republicans-could-lose-17-seats-breaking-supermajority%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A612.6000001430511%2C%22ls%22%3A246.30000019073486%2C%22le%22%3A518%7D
But for a state that hasn’t seen a House chamber without a GOP supermajority since 1993 — and no recent memory of Democrats sweeping that many seats in a single election year — it’s extraordinary.
Biggart said he and other Utah Democratic strategists have spent years trying to carve a path toward breaking the supermajority, but they expected it to take eight or 10 years — not all in one election.
The “blue tsunami” washing over the nation made landfall in Utah, Utah Democratic Party Chair Brian King said Tuesday night. Political pundit Taylor Morgan agreed, but he said he hadn’t expected the way it seeped down into local legislative races.
“I was absolutely shocked. I was flabbergasted, blown away,” Morgan, a political consultant with the lobbying and public affairs firm Morgan & May, told Utah News Dispatch on Wednesday.
He said he expected Democrats to do well in Salt Lake County — but what he didn’t expect was that phenomenon to be so widespread in counties up and down the Wasatch Front, the Wasatch Back and beyond.
“Goodness gracious,” he said. “Look at Davis County. Look at Weber County. They’re both blue. Utah County results are blue in so many ways.”
And Morgan said he didn’t expect so many voters who weren’t Democrats “to turn out to vote and intentionally vote for the Democratic candidates down ballot to punish the Republican party.”
“This is the first time in my lifetime that a national election wave has also taken over the Utah ballot like this,” Morgan said. “It is frankly unprecedented.”
Morgan’s firm built a website to track the results and their impact on the balance of power in the Utah Legislature. He told Utah News Dispatch he expects most Democrats to keep their leads as vote tallies are finalized in coming weeks.
What happened? To both Biggart (a Democrat) and Morgan (a Republican), it wasn’t just Utahns fed up with Trump and an energized Democratic base. It was also Utahns of other political stripes — even some Republicans — having yearslong, mounting frustration with how the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature has handled redistricting, ballot initiatives, unions and other issues, along with an ongoing wave of outcry over data centers and development.
“That combined with a general repudiation of the Republican Party, because of Donald Trump, I think that caught up with Utah legislative Republicans,” Morgan said.
To Biggart, the blue wave was fueled “50-50” by Trump and a frustration with Utah Republican legislators.
“Data centers and gerrymandering and Amendment B and Amendment D before that, all these tricks and power grabs, have weighed on people,” Biggart said. “We’ve reached a point where Democrats are organized. And we’ve knocked literally hundreds of thousands of doors and sent hundreds of thousands of texts to a degree we’ve never done before.”
Democrats, Biggart said, “ran a professional, world-class campaign for these candidates in these targeted races. And it worked.” And he said the results show Utah independents and even some Republicans “have just had it.”
“The Trump effect,” he said, was “a nice kicker at the end.”
Another powerful Senate Republican on track to lose his seat
When one of Utah’s most powerful Republicans, Senate President Stuart Adams, lost his primary election to GOP challenger Stephanie Hollist, apparently that was just the beginning.
Now Adams’ No. 2, Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore, was trailing his Democratic challenger, Shana Anderson, by nearly 14 percentage points as of Wednesday.
It was an upset in Sandy, Draper, Alta, Highland and Alpine areas making up Senate District 19 that perhaps only Anderson herself saw coming.
“I keep hearing people say how surprised they are, but I actually was not surprised at all,” Anderson, a U.S. Army veteran and stay-at-home mom who lives in Sandy, told Utah News Dispatch Wednesday. “I’ve been out there talking to voters, and I knew where everybody was at.”
She’s not claiming victory yet, noting there are still votes to be tallied. But she said she was happy to see “voters coming out and letting their voices be heard.”
Cullimore did not return a request for comment Wednesday. Anderson said she hasn’t heard from him, and he hadn’t called her to concede.
Anderson’s experience on the campaign trail reflected Biggart and Morgan’s takeaways. She said she heard from a lot of people “upset with the Trump administration,” but also many who were directly frustrated with Cullimore’s track record, especially when it came to supporting school voucher programs or anti-public union legislation.
“I had volunteers coming out of the woodwork from all different angles because of what he’s been doing,” Anderson said. “And I honestly think he had no idea that people were paying attention. And people would try to reach out to him, but he would not listen or respond to them.”
Largely, Anderson said the perception she heard from her district’s voters was that Cullimore “has not been doing the job” representing their interests.
“He’s been working for people in power, people with money, and special interests. And he’s not been working for the people in his district,” she said. “It wasn’t even a heavy lift, to be honest.”
How will this shake up the Legislature?
To Morgan, Cullimore’s likely loss and Democrats’ gains in the House will send reverberations through the halls of the Utah Capitol.
Before the election, Cullimore and Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, were in a tight race to replace Adams as the next Senate president. Now that race — which will be decided in a closed caucus meeting Friday night — has a new, giant question mark over it. Will Vickers take it? Or will a different candidate swoop in to run in Cullimore’s place?
“That election has been shaken up completely,” Morgan said.
And because the House is slated to lose so many Republicans and get so many new Democratic faces, Morgan expects even House Speaker Mike Schultz might be in for a shakeup.
“Speaker Mike Schultz has lost 15 members of his caucus, some of whom will be really devoted to Speaker Schultz,” Morgan said. “Will now Speaker Schultz face a challenger within his caucus for the speakership because of what happened?”
Additionally, Morgan wondered if House Democratic leadership might see some changes due to all the new members.
Committee assignments, chair positions and policy priorities are all influenced by who is in House and Senate leadership, so the implications run deep, Morgan said.
To Biggart, the political aftershock of this year’s elections will energize Democrats in Utah like never before — and he expects more candidates willing to run now that they’ve seen what’s possible in traditionally red Utah. Now that it appears the House supermajority has been cracked, Biggart said that will open the floodgates.
“It’s at that point where people really start to believe, where people start to donate, start to knock on doors, start to make those text messages to their friends and family,” Biggart said. “Because when it’s on the margins and it feels real, all of a sudden it becomes a lot easier to do.”
7/3/2024
Was John Fremont Going to Create Mormon State?
Reread my Candidate Declaration.
I Am John
Mormon Sculptor Honors John Fremont
Posted on June 24, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Eureka!
John
Bronze figure representing John C. Frémont by Mahonri M. Young, part of This Is the Place Monument, situated on the east bench of Salt Lake City, July 2012. Photograph by Alexander L. Baugh.
High on the bench east of Salt Lake City is the This Is the Place Monument, erected and dedicated in 1947 as part of the centennial celebration commemorating the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in July 1847. Featured on the granite base and tower are a number of bronze-cast figures created by the renowned Latter-day Saint sculptor Mahonri M. Young (grandson of Brigham Young). Most notable are the large statues of Mormon leaders Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Wilford Woodruff, who stand atop the centerpiece while gazing to the west over the Salt Lake Valley. In addition, nearly twenty other figures are situated around the monument’s base, including one representing John C. Frémont. A plaque, placed in front, provides a fitting tribute highlighting the contributions of the explorer to the Utah region and his influence upon the Mormon populace:
John C. Fremont
1813–1890
Pathfinder, explorer, soldier, statesman. Led five significant exploring and scientific expeditions to the West, 1842–54, three of which traversed the Great Basin to California. Conducted the first scientific exploration of the Great Salt Lake in 1843 and was the first to traverse the treacherous Great Salt Lake Desert directly westward from [the] Great Salt Lake to the site of modern Elko, Nevada. His report and map published in 1845 were invaluable to the Mormon pioneers in their westward journey.
Mahonri Mackintosh Young (August 9, 1877 – November 2, 1957) was an American social-realist sculptor and artist. During his lengthy career, he created more than 320 sculptures, 590 oil paintings, 5,500 watercolors, 2,600 prints, and thousands of drawings. However, he is primarily recognized for his sculpture. His work includes landscapes, portraits, busts, life-size sculptures, monuments, and engravings. Regardless of his medium of choice, his work is characterized by spontaneity; he often preferred to prepare his work with quick sketches on the scene. He felt this made his work more natural as compared to using a model in the studio. He was fairly commercially successful during his life, though he did not find success until his mid-30s. Large commissions for sculptures from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) were particularly lucrative for him.
Born into a family of rich Mormon pioneer heritage, Young was the grandson of the second President of the LDS Church and first Governor of Utah, Brigham Young. Young was introduced to art by his father at an early age. He quit school at seventeen years old and worked engraving and portrait making jobs at various newspapers in Salt Lake City to make money for art lessons and for art school in New York and later, Paris. He lived most of his life in New York City where he became associated with “The Eight” and the Ashcan School. He ignited his commercial success in New York; however, arguably two of his most famous works, the This Is The Place Monument and the Seagull Monument are featured prominently in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of his other well-known works is a statue of Brigham Young which resides at the Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. At various times during his career, Young taught at the Art Students League. Most of Young’s work resides at Brigham Young University.
John Presco For Governor of Oregon
Posted on April 12, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am a Traditional Candidate for Republican Governor of Oregon. My sister was a world famous artist who married the cousin of the artist, Thomas Hart Benton, the grandson of the famous Senator by the same name. Benton was the first proprietor of the Oregon Territory and is kin to Polly Lane, the wife of Joseph Lane, who was appointed Oregon’s first governor. Lane County is named after Joseph who was a pro-Confederate candidate for Vice President. He was on the ticket with General John Breckenridge whose family was The South that became the new home of the Abolitionist Republican Party. This came about due to the Southern Strategy that should be taught in Oregon schools so that young people will know how the pro-slavery party of Lincoln, became the party of racists who opposed the Reconstruction after the Red States lost the Civil War. John Fremont was the co-founder of the original Republican Party, and its first Presidential Candidate.
I was born in Oakland California. My father was born in San Francisco where one of his German grandfathers built a Turnverein Hall. Carl Janke was the co-founder of Belmont California and had one of that States first theme parks. He was an Odd Fellow, and thus would no subscribe to Christian Nationalism. Nor would Senator Thomas Hart Benton who was honored by the Freemasons who raised monies to build Benton Hall on the campus of Oregon State. Several years ago, Benton’s name was removed. Thomas was the attorney of John Astor, who hired Washington Irving to write book about the Beaver Territory that was a home for his company. The Hart family were partners of Daniel Boone in the Transylvania Fur Company.
Many men came from Europe to make their fortune in the New World. The men that constituted Fremont’s Bodyguard, were Forty-Eighters who fought the Hapsburgs who had created a Christian Nation in the middle of Europe, and who sent two Armadas to destroy the Protestant Christian Nation that Queen Elizabeth ruled. There is no evidence any Christian has worked, but for the one that is sustained in Britain by royals with German roots. Many of the Forty-Eighters were German and were Socialists and Marxists. Lincoln was surrounded by Marxists. Fremont forced Lincoln’s hand by emancipating the slaves of Missouri. He also founded the Radical Democracy Party. Republican Radicals brought about the Civil War. Black people would still be slaves if Fremont had not taken radical steps. John’s wife, Jessie Benton Fremont – the daughter of Thomas – wrote the first book about the Oregon Territory that was explored by John ‘The Trailblazer.
If I become Governor, I will reach out to European Nations to renew a bond very few members of NATO know about. I believe President Zelensky of Ukraine has given new life to the revolution of the Forty-Eighters began in 1848. I suggest Oregon become the Sister State of Ukraine and see itself as a State Member of NATO. Oregon should let our European Allies know we are a Trading Partner in The Pacific.
Let Oregon once again be the model for the Republican Party that has become a symbol for what divided us in Europe and is the reason we were divided over there. We came – here – to find unity of purpose, and create a enlightened culture. Ukrainians are already abandoning the Russian language and culture that oppressed them. Let us follow suit and make an orphan…..the culture of hate. We can do so much with simple love for one another.
John Presco
Radical Democracy Party (United States) – Wikipedia
Romney Statement on Anniversary of January 6
8/30/2026
Mormon Church Has No Courage
Chair-lift at Odd Fellows is broken.
Black Leaders led a march in Washington opposing Trump’s attempt to make it harder for Blacks (and others) to vote. They site “Jim Crow”. There was a small turnout? Were people afraid of KKK-like terrorism.
At the first sign of trouble, the Church of Later Day Saint….
ABANDONED ME!
It began in my own home. This man from Fremont turns to the three Sister Missionaries, and with a snarl;
“How did this guy get involved with us?”
How many Mormons have been…..
VOTING THE REPUBLICAN TICKET RELIGIOUSLY?
How do the thousands of young missionaries feel about Messiah Trump and his disciples using the Supreme Court to make it harder for American Citizens to vote. They know – this game! They are given lessons on……..
RECRUITING
Above is a pic of me about to climb the steps to Oddfellows. I was a member, but poor health prevents me. Does Bill-Bunch marvel at how much I write everyday? I will be eighty in a month. No makes me a sandwich – with soup!
I HAVE A PLAN!
I will be announcing I am a Republican Candidate for President. My platform will be based on the platform of 1860. After I dod this, I am going to get a Constitutional Attorney, and sue the Republican Party for making it…
IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO VOTE FOR MYSELF.
Do LDS members own opinions on the Shroud? Why wouldn’t they want a cop of the Shroud in the Utah Temple?
John Presco
Despite the lack of an official position on the Shroud, its image resonates deeply with the themes of resurrection and atonement in LDS theology. Members of the Church often reflect on the Shroud as a representation of Christ’s suffering and ultimate triumph, reinforcing their belief in His divine mission. The Shroud serves as a reminder of the hope and comfort that the resurrection provides, encouraging faithful adherence to the principles of the gospel.
May 17, 1860
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations:
1. That the history of the nation during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution, “That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of the States, and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.
Mormon Sculptor Honors John Fremont
Posted on June 24, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Eureka!
John
Bronze figure representing John C. Frémont by Mahonri M. Young, part of This Is the Place Monument, situated on the east bench of Salt Lake City, July 2012. Photograph by Alexander L. Baugh.
High on the bench east of Salt Lake City is the This Is the Place Monument, erected and dedicated in 1947 as part of the centennial celebration commemorating the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in July 1847. Featured on the granite base and tower are a number of bronze-cast figures created by the renowned Latter-day Saint sculptor Mahonri M. Young (grandson of Brigham Young). Most notable are the large statues of Mormon leaders Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Wilford Woodruff, who stand atop the centerpiece while gazing to the west over the Salt Lake Valley. In addition, nearly twenty other figures are situated around the monument’s base, including one representing John C. Frémont. A plaque, placed in front, provides a fitting tribute highlighting the contributions of the explorer to the Utah region and his influence upon the Mormon populace:
John C. Fremont
1813–1890
Pathfinder, explorer, soldier, statesman. Led five significant exploring and scientific expeditions to the West, 1842–54, three of which traversed the Great Basin to California. Conducted the first scientific exploration of the Great Salt Lake in 1843 and was the first to traverse the treacherous Great Salt Lake Desert directly westward from [the] Great Salt Lake to the site of modern Elko, Nevada. His report and map published in 1845 were invaluable to the Mormon pioneers in their westward journey.
Mahonri Mackintosh Young (August 9, 1877 – November 2, 1957) was an American social-realist sculptor and artist. During his lengthy career, he created more than 320 sculptures, 590 oil paintings, 5,500 watercolors, 2,600 prints, and thousands of drawings. However, he is primarily recognized for his sculpture. His work includes landscapes, portraits, busts, life-size sculptures, monuments, and engravings. Regardless of his medium of choice, his work is characterized by spontaneity; he often preferred to prepare his work with quick sketches on the scene. He felt this made his work more natural as compared to using a model in the studio. He was fairly commercially successful during his life, though he did not find success until his mid-30s. Large commissions for sculptures from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) were particularly lucrative for him.
Born into a family of rich Mormon pioneer heritage, Young was the grandson of the second President of the LDS Church and first Governor of Utah, Brigham Young. Young was introduced to art by his father at an early age. He quit school at seventeen years old and worked engraving and portrait making jobs at various newspapers in Salt Lake City to make money for art lessons and for art school in New York and later, Paris. He lived most of his life in New York City where he became associated with “The Eight” and the Ashcan School. He ignited his commercial success in New York; however, arguably two of his most famous works, the This Is The Place Monument and the Seagull Monument are featured prominently in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of his other well-known works is a statue of Brigham Young which resides at the Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. At various times during his career, Young taught at the Art Students League. Most of Young’s work resides at Brigham Young University.
John Presco For Governor of Oregon
Posted on April 12, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am a Traditional Candidate for Republican Governor of Oregon. My sister was a world famous artist who married the cousin of the artist, Thomas Hart Benton, the grandson of the famous Senator by the same name. Benton was the first proprietor of the Oregon Territory and is kin to Polly Lane, the wife of Joseph Lane, who was appointed Oregon’s first governor. Lane County is named after Joseph who was a pro-Confederate candidate for Vice President. He was on the ticket with General John Breckenridge whose family was The South that became the new home of the Abolitionist Republican Party. This came about due to the Southern Strategy that should be taught in Oregon schools so that young people will know how the pro-slavery party of Lincoln, became the party of racists who opposed the Reconstruction after the Red States lost the Civil War. John Fremont was the co-founder of the original Republican Party, and its first Presidential Candidate.
I was born in Oakland California. My father was born in San Francisco where one of his German grandfathers built a Turnverein Hall. Carl Janke was the co-founder of Belmont California and had one of that States first theme parks. He was an Odd Fellow, and thus would no subscribe to Christian Nationalism. Nor would Senator Thomas Hart Benton who was honored by the Freemasons who raised monies to build Benton Hall on the campus of Oregon State. Several years ago, Benton’s name was removed. Thomas was the attorney of John Astor, who hired Washington Irving to write book about the Beaver Territory that was a home for his company. The Hart family were partners of Daniel Boone in the Transylvania Fur Company.
Many men came from Europe to make their fortune in the New World. The men that constituted Fremont’s Bodyguard, were Forty-Eighters who fought the Hapsburgs who had created a Christian Nation in the middle of Europe, and who sent two Armadas to destroy the Protestant Christian Nation that Queen Elizabeth ruled. There is no evidence any Christian has worked, but for the one that is sustained in Britain by royals with German roots. Many of the Forty-Eighters were German and were Socialists and Marxists. Lincoln was surrounded by Marxists. Fremont forced Lincoln’s hand by emancipating the slaves of Missouri. He also founded the Radical Democracy Party. Republican Radicals brought about the Civil War. Black people would still be slaves if Fremont had not taken radical steps. John’s wife, Jessie Benton Fremont – the daughter of Thomas – wrote the first book about the Oregon Territory that was explored by John ‘The Trailblazer.
If I become Governor, I will reach out to European Nations to renew a bond very few members of NATO know about. I believe President Zelensky of Ukraine has given new life to the revolution of the Forty-Eighters began in 1848. I suggest Oregon become the Sister State of Ukraine and see itself as a State Member of NATO. Oregon should let our European Allies know we are a Trading Partner in The Pacific.
Let Oregon once again be the model for the Republican Party that has become a symbol for what divided us in Europe and is the reason we were divided over there. We came – here – to find unity of purpose, and create a enlightened culture. Ukrainians are already abandoning the Russian language and culture that oppressed them. Let us follow suit and make an orphan…..the culture of hate. We can do so much with simple love for one another.
John Presco
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Romney Statement on Anniversary of January 6
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today released the following statement on the anniversary of January 6.
“Today, we call to mind the memory of those who were tragically lost on the 6th and in the following days, and we reflect with gratitude on the heroic efforts of those who protected the U.S. Capitol and all of us inside the building. It is because of their courage that Congress ultimately fulfilled its responsibility to count the votes and that the transfer of power continued unimpeded.
“We ignore the lessons of January 6 at our own peril. Democracy is fragile; it cannot survive without leaders of integrity and character who care more about the strength of our Republic than about winning the next election. I said last year that the best way we can show respect for voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. The responsibility that elected officials have in this regard is fundamental to reversing the malaise gripping our current politics and ensuring that our democracy endures.”
Isaiah 61:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
Webster’s Revision
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
World English Bible
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
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Clarke’s Isaiah 61:5 Bible Commentary
Strangers shall – feed your flocks – Gentiles shall first preach to you the salvation of Christ, and feed with Divine knowledge the Jewish congregations.
Barnes’s Isaiah 61:5 Bible Commentary
And strangers shall stand – (See the notes at Isaiah 14:1-2; Isaiah 60:10).
And feed your flocks – The keeping of flocks constituted a very considerable part of the husbandry of those who dwelt in Palestine. Of course, any considerable prosperity of a spiritual nature would be well represented by an accession of foreigners, who should come to relieve them in their toil. It is not necessary to suppose that this is to be taken literally, nor that it should be so spiritualized as to suppose that the prophet refers to churches and their pastors, and to the fact, that those churches would be put under the care of pastors from among the pagan. The idea is, that it would be a time of signal spiritual prosperity, and when the accession would be as great and important as if foreigners were to come in among a people, and take the whole labor of attending their flocks and cultivating their fields.
Your plowmen – Hebrew, אכר ‘ikkâr, from which probably is derived the Greek ἀγρός agros; the Gothic akr; the German acker; and the English acre. It means properly a digger or cultivator of the soil, or farmer Jeremiah 51:26; Amos 5:16.
And vine-dressers – The sense here accords with that which has been so repeatedly said before, that the pagan world would yet become tributary to the church (see the notes at Isaiah 9:5-7, Isaiah 9:9-10).
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