{"id":22107888,"date":"2020-02-11T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=22107888"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:38:56","slug":"spencer-cox-makes-stop-at-usu-on-the-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/spencer-cox-makes-stop-at-usu-on-the-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Cox makes stop at USU on the campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Spencer Cox spoke at Utah State University on Thursday about why he\u2019s running for governor and the issues his administration will focus on,\u00a0 principally infrastructure growth and education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPolitics is fundamentally broken in our country,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIt\u2019s become a competition to tear other people down.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox said he is running to make a difference in a continually bitter and divisive political process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe system only works if everyone gets involved,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the grand experiment and it\u2019s not working as well now. When that happens, only the extreme elements of the party show up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox, who has served as Lt. Gov. of Utah for almost seven years, said he almost told Gov. Gary Herbert \u201cno\u201d when asked if he would take the position in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI told my wife I was going to say no, and she said maybe we should rethink that,\u201d Cox said. \u201cShe said one of the biggest problems we have today is that people doing these jobs really want them. I think we might need more people who don\u2019t want these jobs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Cox, studies done by political scientists demonstrate how moderate candidates tend to accomplish their initiatives in congress. Unfortunately, he added, the country is so polarized that studies show there are only seven or eight true moderates left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe country is probably the most divided it\u2019s been since the Civil War,\u201d Cox said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox believes the problem stems from the fact that the nation is lonelier than at almost any other time in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have fewer true friends and, again the data is very clear on this, fewer people we can share our hopes and dreams with,\u201d Cox said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite these issues, Cox said Utah is still different from the rest of the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe still care about each other, we lead the nation in volunteerism and charitable giving and there\u2019s not a close second,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox said Utah has these values because they hold elected officials to a higher standard, adding that, historically, negative campaigning has not worked in Utah like it has in other places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the issues, he said the state does have a few challenges. Concerning the challenges facing growth, Cox said he has a simple formula that \u201chas not failed me yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhere infrastructure proceeds growth and density, the quality of life stays high,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the opposite is true, the quality of life goes down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cox said the role of the state is not to tell communities where to build but to help with infrastructure projects like water and transportation. However, he said none of that matters if the state can\u2019t get education right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have a teacher shortage in this state,\u201d Cox said. \u201cAround 48 percent of our teachers leave the profession in the first five years. I can\u2019t think of any other employment group where the numbers are that high.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two problems the state needs to address with education, Cox said. The first one is compensation. \u201cMy own brother was a teacher and realized he could not raise four kids on a teacher\u2019s salary here,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To solve this problem, Cox said the state needs to get teacher\u2019s salaries to $60,000 over the next few years. He said this is doable if they can be intentional about it and focus on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second problem that needs to be addressed for Utah teachers is that the joy has been taken out of teaching, Cox said. Despite having the best economy in the country and having economic diversity in almost every job sector, the exact opposite has been done with education, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike other sectors where regulations have been lowered, Cox said we are over-regulating teachers. \u201cHigh stakes testing, school grading \u2014 all these things being done to hold teachers accountable have turned them into robots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution, according to Cox, is to get rid of regulation and allow teachers to thrive and focus on individualized learning with smaller classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shaylee Reynolds, the Huntsman Scholar Program assistant, said she loved what Cox had to say about education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy husband and I both work in education, so what he had to say really resonated with me,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another event attendee, USU senior Dylan Passmore, said for Utah to continue to be successful, a governor like Spencer Cox is needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlong with education, I hope Cox helps the economy keep up with the speed that it\u2019s had in the past,\u201d Passmore said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeannie Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science , said the most impressive thing about Cox is his connection to two vital segments of Utah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe comes from a rural upbringing,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI focus on the high-tech emerging technology sector, and I have been wildly impressed with the Lt. Gov.\u2019s ability to connect those two communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2019\/07\/31\/salt-lake-chamber-poll\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salt Lake Tribune<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the latest polls for the gubernatorial race show Cox leading over other Republican candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0tayorcripe@gmail.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@cripe_taylor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. 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