Politics Up Close: Speaker Greg Curtis

Oct 03, 2008 by Jeff Robinson

Republican for House District 49

(KCPW News) Greg Curtis is the Republican Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives and Representative for House District 49 in Sandy.  Curtis has served in the legislature since 1995, and has been speaker for the past four years.  Outside the legislature, he’s an attorney.  This past session, he sponsored a bill to removed the enrollment cap on the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which passed by a wide margin.  During his time as speaker, education funding in the state has increased by more than a billion dollars.  Over the next two years, if re-elected, he wants to continue to increase funding for education, reduce taxes, expand access to health care, and eliminate the sales tax on food.  His opponent is Jay Seegmiller, who’s challenging him for the third time after losing by 20 votes in 2006. 

 

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