A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN
THE HOUSE
If you feel passionate about a 2 party system that represents Conservatives AND Liberals, consider donating to the campaign fund to get Claudia in the House of Representatives!
CORE PHILOSOPHIES
EDUCATION
Protect and increase funding - especially for educators. If their work is compensated accordingly, everyone benefits. Our students deserve teachers who are valued. No more back-door access to public funding for state legislatures.
2 PARTY SYSTEM
This is a system that provides choices for conservatives AND liberals, for men AND women, for old AND young. Claudia would like to work at keeping the two-party system alive and well in one of the most conservative areas of Utah.
CIVIL DISCOURSE
The more we can work together, listen to all sides of important issues, and build bridges to understanding, the better Utah will be. We can show the nation what it looks like to disagree while still showing deep respect for one another.
“My motivation to run for office is an attempt to change the trajectory of overwhelming conservatism—in essence, to be a representative of the unrepresented party.”
-Claudia Bigler-
MEET CLAUDIA
Claudia Bigler is entering the political arena as a lifelong educator. Her years in education have also made her passionate about the need for reasonable laws for properly funding and supporting education in Utah. Her first-hand education experience has helped her develop the ability to motivate, inspire, and foster group cooperation.
She graduated from BYU and was an award-winning educator for 33 years before she retired in 2019. Although she was born and raised in Idaho, she has spent more time in Utah than anywhere else - 35 years in total with 24 of them at Box Elder High School.
FAIR
INCLUSIVE
HONEST
STRONG
EXPERIENCED
CLAUDIA’S IMPACT
Claudia served in the state leadership of the Utah Music Educator’s Association. She was the state president of the American Choral Director’s Association. Claudia received the award for Outstanding Music Educator in Utah in 2016 and she was even inducted into the Music Educator’s Hall of Fame in 2019. She and her husband are former members of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
Claudia’s commitment to her community can also be seen in her regular volunteer work. She is passionate about supporting organizations that make Utah a better place. Her service includes Holding Out Help, an organization that assists women leaving polygamy; serving on the board of the Brigham City Fine Arts Center; and helping at Furever Friends in North Ogden, an animal adoption agency.
2 PARTY SYSTEM
The desire to run for office is motivated by an idealistic belief in the need for a functioning two-party system. It is critical that more than one perspective is available to citizens. In several respects, parts of Utah function as a one-party state. In tracking decades of elections in Box Elder County, the votes for Republicans have been as high as 88 percent.
Those of us with more liberal leanings can feel powerless and unrepresented. Candidates don’t want to run for office when there is virtual certainty that they will be defeated.
The legislature’s disproportionate number of LDS lawmakers have augmented this control by overruling the recommendations of the redistricting committee (that they appointed!) and by using voter registration rules.
