{"id":28697,"date":"2014-01-10T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=28697"},"modified":"2014-01-10T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:28:34","slug":"a-look-at-the-political-affiliations-of-some-prominent-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/a-look-at-the-political-affiliations-of-some-prominent-members\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at the Political Affiliations of Some Prominent Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend recently drew my attention to a new website<\/a> that catalogs Utah voter registration data in a searchable format that was\u00a0purportedly purchased<\/a> from the Herbert administration. After checking the voter registration data of a few friends and acquaintances, I thought it would be interesting to identify the party registrations of some prominent members of the Church. Any other fun finds to add to the list?<\/p>\n

First Presidency<\/strong><\/div>\n
Thomas S. Monson, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Henry B. Eyring, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Quorum of the Twelve<\/strong><\/div>\n
Boyd K. Packer, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
L. Tom Perry, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Russell M. Nelson, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Dallin H. Oaks, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
M. Russell Ballard, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Richard G. Scott, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Robert D. Hales, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Jeffrey R. Holland, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
David A. Bednar, unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Quentin L. Cook, unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
D. Todd Christopherson, unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Neil L. Anderson, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Relief Society General Board<\/strong><\/div>\n
Linda K. Burton, unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Carole M. Stephens, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Linda S. Reeves, registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Others<\/strong><\/div>\n
Gary E. Stevenson (Presiding Bishop),\u00a0registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
H. David Burton (former Presiding Bishop),\u00a0registered Republican<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
Steven E. Snow (current Church historian), registered Democrat<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Larry Echohawk (general authority, former Obama cabinet member), unaffiliated voter<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
Sheri Dew (CEO of Deseret Book),\u00a0registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Marlin K. Jensen (emeritus general authority),\u00a0unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Cecil O. Samuelson (President of BYU),\u00a0unaffiliated voter<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Bronco Mendenhall (BYU Football Coach),\u00a0<\/em>registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Thurl Bailey (former NBA star),\u00a0<\/em>registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Donny Osmond (singer\/actor),\u00a0<\/em>registered Republican<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Robert Kirby (Salt Lake Tribune columnist),\u00a0<\/em>registered Democrat<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

[Note: Updated to include Steven E. Snow]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend recently drew my attention to a new website that catalogs Utah voter registration data in a searchable format that was\u00a0purportedly purchased from the Herbert administration. After checking the voter registration data of a few friends and acquaintances, I thought it would be interesting to identify the party registrations of some prominent members of the Church. Any other fun finds to add to the list? First Presidency Thomas S. Monson, registered Republican Henry B. Eyring, registered Republican Dieter F. Uchtdorf, unaffiliated voter Quorum of the Twelve Boyd K. Packer, registered Republican L. Tom Perry, registered Republican Russell M. Nelson, registered Republican Dallin H. Oaks, registered Republican M. Russell Ballard, registered Republican Richard G. Scott, registered Republican Robert D. Hales, registered Republican Jeffrey R. Holland, registered Republican David A. Bednar, unaffiliated voter Quentin L. Cook, unaffiliated voter D. Todd Christopherson, unaffiliated voter Neil L. Anderson, registered Republican Relief Society General Board Linda K. Burton, unaffiliated voter Carole M. Stephens, registered Republican Linda S. Reeves, registered Republican Others Gary E. Stevenson (Presiding Bishop),\u00a0registered Republican H. David Burton (former Presiding Bishop),\u00a0registered Republican Steven E. Snow (current Church historian), registered Democrat Larry Echohawk (general authority, former Obama cabinet member), unaffiliated voter Sheri Dew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-mormon-life","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28697"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28710,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697\/revisions\/28710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}