A “Welcome to Millcreek” signal is pictured in Millcreek on Nov. 20, 2020. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
An opinion by Nate Blouin and Stephanie Pitcher, “Partisan gerrymandering divided Millcreek into 4 districts — what’s being performed?” argues that the legislature’s latest redistricting effort divided up Millcreek unfairly by way of “excessive partisan gerrymandering.”
With all due respect to my hometown, Millcreek Metropolis itself is just a cobbling collectively of what was left of unincorporated Salt Lake County between Holladay/Murray and SLC, and doesn’t precisely signify an natural group.
The newly created Senate District 14 truly brings collectively a individuals and group with widespread considerations and curiosity far more than Millcreek Metropolis does.
I used to be raised in East Millcreek and labored on the household furnishings enterprise in Sugarhouse. Ultimately, I established my very own enterprise in East Murray the place I nonetheless work after 23 years.
Whereas attending Olympus Excessive, my associates and I have been typically engaged in pleasant sports activities rivalries and different exchanges with our neighbors at Highland, Murray, Cottonwood and Skyline excessive faculties. Many people dated and married individuals from these neighborhoods. Our kids have adopted go well with and many people now have grandkids being raised in the neighborhood that makes up Senate District 14.
It’s onerous to remove political and partisan bias when drawing up district maps. However once I take a morning run from my residence in East Millcreek over to Sugarhouse Park, up and again throughout Parleys Canyon alongside the Bonneville Shoreline path on the base of Mount Olympus overlooking Murray and Holladay, I'm wondering how there could possibly be a Senate district drawn to raised signify the group my neighbors and I do know and love so properly.
Dan Sorensen
Republican nominee for Senate District 14.