Deidre M. Henderson

Deidre M. Henderson is a small business owner, and Lieutenant Governor, running as a Republican candidate for the Lieutenant Governor's seat with Spencer J. Cox in the November 2024 Election, Utah.

Our first introduction to Deidre was through conversations with delegates who described her as not being a principled conservative, but the best of a set of poor candidates. My record of items I've noticed her being involved in is generally positive, but not strongly indicative of her ability to stand up on principle. Her involvement in 2024 election issues does not look good for her.

2024

Spencer Cox lost the delegate vote, and then obtained a primary against Phil Lyman by gathering signatures. He won the primary. However, there are a lot of questions about how legitimate his gathered signatures are. His signature list has been kept secret in an unprecedented move, so that nobody could verify them. After the election, it was demonstrated that none of the signature verification officials had completed all of the required training when the signatures were supposedly verified. Another candidate who was verified by the same group was disqualified due to possible criminal activity that lead to many of his signatures being disqualified. Lieutenant Governor Deidre M. Henderson, who plays a central role in ensuring that signature verifiers can be trained, and who's failure to make such training available played a pivotal role in preventing training from being completed, declared that this kind of criticism of election integrity should not be first amendment protected speech.

Older

Deidre was among a group of Utah County legislators who signed a letter calling for a Utah County Commissioner, Greg Graves, to step down. Greg had been accused of sexual harassment, and was widely seen as a workplace bully in the county offices.

In 2017 she sponsored S.B. 250, which largely simplified/standardized food truck licensing in the state. She was the floor sponsor for H.B. 265, which eliminated the vehicle safety inspection requirement for vehicle registration, increased the registration fee, and set aside funds for vehicle safety impact study and highway patrol personnel.

In 2016 she sponsored S.B. 108 which broke up an effective industry blockade of birthing centers being perpetrated by the licensing board (the Department of Health and the Health Facility Committee) by ending.

In 2015 she sponsored H.B. 154 which created a jury duty exemption for breastfeeding mothers.

External Resources

• Official Website
• Deidre Henderson - Twitter
• Deidre M. Henderson - Facebook
• Deidre Henderson: Senate Rules Chair - Utah State Senate
• Deidre Henderson - Wikipedia
• Deidre Henderson - BallotPedia
• Deidre Henderson - Vote Smart
• ASK Debates UTGOP,"Deidre Opening Statement", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Difference", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Legislative Agenda", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Bears Ears", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Net Neutrality", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre The Affordable Care Act", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Committee Positions", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017
• ASK Debates UTGOP, "Deidre Closing Statement", YouTube, 7 Jun 2017