Politisauce 2025

The Salt Lake County Party is excited to announce that our annual Politisauce fundraiser and awards show will be a brunch on April 12th at 12:30pm at the America First Field Interform Club at 9256 S State St, Sandy, UT 84070 (Real Salt Lake's Stadium).

We will also be honoring several fantastic Democrats this year with our Democratic Believer and Democratic Legacy awards.

Join us in celebrating Democrats and help us support our 2025 and 2026 candidates!

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Announcing Special Guest Speaker:
Congresswoman Sarah McBride

Congresswoman McBride proudly represents Delaware as its sole member of Congress, making history as the first openly transgender member of the U.S. House of Representatives. A Wilmington native, she has dedicated decades to public service, serving as a State Senator from 2020 to 2025, working for former Governor Jack Markell and the late Attorney General Beau Biden, and serving as the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ equal rights organization.

As a State Senator, McBride championed policies expanding healthcare access, mental health and media literacy education in public schools, green technologies, and worker protections. Her leadership has paved the way for a more inclusive and equitable future, and we are honored to welcome her to Salt Lake County.

Congratulations to our 2025 Award Winners!

2025 Democratic Legacy Award Winner: Carol Moss

Representative Carol Spackman Moss was born in Ogden, Utah. Growing up, she moved often, due to her stepfather’s government job—attended two junior highs, three high schools, graduating from San Rafael High in Marin County, CA.

Returning to Utah for college, Carol graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. and M.A. in English. After graduation, she taught English for 33 years at Olympus High. Her classroom experience gave her a unique perspective on teacher and student needs, plus the ability to be a successful communicator--the key to success in politics.

Representative Moss was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in 2000, has served for 25 years, making her the longest serving woman legislator in Utah history. Much of her legislative work has focused on securing funding for public education, addressing the opioid epidemic, jail reform, anti-bullying and hazing, HOA protections, distracted driving, helping refugees get driver’s licenses, and more.
Carol is the proud mother of three daughters, two stepsons, and six grandchildren. She and her late husband Robert “Bob”Moss shared a love of traveling the world, participating in humanitarian programs in Peru and Ethiopia, reading, skiing, cycling, theater, and politics.

2025 Democratic Believer Award Winners

Zachary Angell

Tenille Taggart

John Arthur

Zachary Angell is a long-standing union member of the Teamsters Local 222. Zachary has been a member of the Teamsters for nearly two decades and serves as both a union steward and Recording Secretary of his Local. As a Teamster, Zachary also formed and is President of the Teamsters Pride Queer Caucus which aids fellow Teamsters and hosts the annual all-labor Pride Parade entry. He also serves on the board of Pride at Work, Utah, an AFL-CIO constituency group which provides the LGBTQ+ community with union jobs, helps them organize their workplaces, and lobbies for contractual protections by unions.

Zachary has become an active member of the Democratic Party, serving as the Vice Chair of House District 30 and is a member of the Stonewall Caucus board.

Tenille Taggart believes in freedom and equality for all and she works to that end both personally and professionally. Her work includes grassroots organizing and digital activism, serving as executive board members for the Stonewall Caucus and for the West View, a local Westside newspaper; publishing scientific peer-reviewed articles and providing therapy to individuals using a minority stress framework, and teaching university courses that encouraged college students to pick apart how science has harmed women, minorities and marginalized peoples.

Most notably, Tenille co-authored the first longitudinal study to examine trans youth, gender-affirming hormones, and mental health.

Tenille is currently running for House District 25 Chair and she plans to continue her advocacy and activism to make her community and the world a better, safer place for everyone.

John Arthur is one of our country's most renowned classroom teachers. He is a National Board Certified Teacher, the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year, and a National Teacher of the Year Finalist. John is also the Co-Director of the Teacher Fellows, a nonprofit dedicated to developing the next generation of Utah teacher leaders, the Director of Candidate Recruitment for the Utah National Board Coalition, and author of The Digital Projects Playbook, a Step-by-Step Guide to Empowering Students as Creators.

In 2024, John ran for the Utah State Board of Education in District 7, a seat he intends to win in 2028.

Darlene McDonald

Former National Committee woman Darlene McDonald is a proud Democrat. Darlene represented Utah at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 2024 where she joined fellow Democrats from around the country to proudly nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for President. As a former congressional candidate, Darlene traveled from Salt Lake to Juab expressing the sentiment that she holds dear: Democratic values are Utah values. Darlene remains committed to the effort of increasing civic engagement in underrepresented communities in Utah and around the country.

Darlene is the Executive Director of the Selma Institute, serves on the Board of ACLU-Utah, and as a member-at-large for the Friends Committee on National Legislation where she lobbies Congress on issues that matter to all of us.

When she’s not serving, Darlene writes. She’s a published novelist and essayist of political and Civil Rights History. She’s also co-host of the brand new Left-wing political podcast, Fahrenheit 801.

Joel Briscoe

Joel attended his first Democratic Party caucus at age 17 and was elected a county and state delegate.

He is proud to be a retired Utah public school teacher and proud of his three children who all graduated from Utah public schools.

As a Representative for House District 24, he assisted former Reps. Patrice Arent and Rebecca Chavez-Houck in creating the bi-partisan Utah Legislative Clean Air Caucus.
Rep. Briscoe passed legislation so that 17 year-olds can vote in primary elections if they will be 18 before the November election. He also sponsored legislation to tax the burning of fossil fuels in Utah, and he created a pilot program to provide zero fare UTA transit service in the winter during inversions. He served as one of the co-chairs of the Commission on Housing Affordability.