[ applause ] [ applause ] governor, welcome to the joint conference. Well, thank you very much. Its always an honor to be with you here at this special occasion. President niederhauser, speaker ewes, members of the legislature, attorney general sean reyes, auditor dugal, justices of the utah supreme court, Lieutenant Governor and mrs. Cox and utahs first lady, my wonderful wife, jeanette. My fellow utahns, the utah we know and love today stands on Higher Ground because of the many sacrifices of utahans who have gone before us. Let me begin this evening by acknowledging two of these giants who left us this past year. Former governors norm bangerter and arlene walker. Among governor bangerters many achievements, he deserves great credit foreign creasing Education Funding and improving government efficiency in a time of economic uncertainty. Governor bangerter was a down to earth leader who liked to say he was just an old farmer and carpenter from granger who happened to be governor. We a
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Live within the constitutional con strastraints of buckley and thats whats led to some of this sort of starts and fits of reform. The other thing i think buckley has changed, or what would be different if there hadnt been buckley, is that probably Political Parties would be much stronger and much more in control of their candidates, much more influential over their candidates and so that would probably be a big difference as well. Yeah, i was going to ask you about what do you think the impact would have been on parties . Can you give us a reason why do you think the parties would be stronger if, under that scenario . Well, the parties are a source of resources, of brand name, and so if candidates are less free to raise their own resources, make their own brand, then they have to rely on the parties more. And, therefore, youre going to see more Party Discipline and you see, you know, more powerful parties in the u. S. Like you see in european countries. There wouldnt be a ted cruz. He