Good short summary of County Races from Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/closeup/ci_14750194

Utah County commissioners to face challenges from GOP, Dems
Politics » Many candidates throw their hats into the election ring.
By Donald W. Meyers
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 03/24/2010 05:17:22 PM MDT

Utah County commissioners Gary J. Anderson and Steve White face challenges from inside the Republican Party, as well as from Democrats.
Meanwhile, two Republicans aim to oust Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy. And the county assessor and recorder are also facing GOP challenges, and two Republicans are vying for the surveyor's post, which was recently separated from the recorder's office.
But County Clerk-Auditor Bryan Thompson and Treasurer Robert C. Kirk are running unopposed.
Here's a roundup of major Utah County races:

Commission Seat A
Anderson, who served as a commissioner from 1983-1986, and won again in 2006, is being challenged from within his party by Joel D. Wright and James L. Vein. Anderson, an attorney who once worked in the Utah County Attorney's Office, is touting his efforts to promote cooperation between the county, regional agencies and cities, as well as promoting economic development.
Wright, an attorney with Kirton and McConkie, is a former Cedar Hills City Councilman and a former member of the Board of Regents. He is campaigning on a platform of fiscal restraint and combating white-collar crime and has suggested changing county government to a council form to give better representation for cities.
Attempts to contact Vein, an American Fork resident, were unsuccessful.
Democrat J. Lane Henderson is the former Salem mayor and city councilman. He also runs a printing in business in Spanish Fork.
He believes his experience as a city official can help the county better work with cities, as well as give southern Utah County residents a voice on the commission.
"I think [Anderson] has tried," Henderson said of the incumbent's efforts to reach out to cities. But, Henderson said there is a possibility that Anderson may not come out of the Republican convention.

Commission Seat B
Steve White was first elected to the commission in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. He previously served on the Utah County Planning Commission and is a former Utah County Republican Party Chairman. He said he wants another four years to ensure that the county maintains its fiscally conservative principles while keeping taxes low and providing essential services.
His challengers include Republicans Douglas Witney, Linda Housekeeper and Leon M. Frazier; Democrat Ted Barratt has also filed.
Witney, of Springville, is a retired Utah County Sheriff's captain who organized and headed the Utah County Attorney's Office's fraud division.
Witney said he would like to see major crime units within the county bolstered, and do more to retain the county's best employees. While officials talk of those employees' great work, there has been a "systematic dismantling" of benefits and salaries, he said.
Witney said he would also work to overhaul the budget process and would not accept any pay raises as a commissioner.
Housekeeper, of Orem, is hoping to become the first woman on the commission. She has served as a legislative district chairwoman in the Utah County Republican Party.
If elected, she would push the commission to do more to solve problems.
"I feel like Steve White is more beholden to a faction of the Republican Party than to the people who he is supposed to represent," Housekeeper said.
Frazier, owner of Frazier Park in Provo Canyon, said the county is harassing small business owners through high taxes and regulation. He vowed to bring the county back to a more libertarian and conservative philosophy by cutting bureaucracy and taxes. He said commissioners need to cut their own salaries by 10 percent.
Barratt is the former mayor of American Fork. He said he would work with county employees to make county government run more efficiently. He would also lobby the Legislature to improve education, which he said is vital to economic development.

Sheriff
Tracy is standing on his record of reducing expenses at the county jail through a combination of charging inmates for their time behind bars and operating an inmate vegetable garden on the jail grounds. He also touted his work with judges in reducing overcrowding in the jail and adding an additional 400 beds to the Spanish Fork detention center.
Tracy said deputies on his watch also have cracked down on crime in the canyons, breaking up rave parties that he said were making the areas unsafe for families.
He is being challenged by Robin D. Wall and Dan Burton.
Wall, a sergeant in the sheriff's office, said he would push for new programs to identify career criminals and educate parents about the dangers of drug addiction and gang activity. He also said he would build a coalition with the American Red Cross and other groups to work on emergency planning.
Attempts to contact Burton were not successful.