Constitution candidate Cassie Easley seeks U.S. House of Representatives seat from District 2

Enoch resident Cassie Easley is running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Oct. 11, 2022 | Photo by Cassie Easley, St. George News

ST. GEORGE — Enoch resident Cassie Easley didn’t mince words when asked to describe the Constitution Party platform.

“We want a Constitutional government – you can’t have a better platform than that,” Easley said in the conference room at Canyon Media in late September.

Easley, a grandmother whose family home-schools their children, said she has lived in Iron County for nearly 20 years. Before living in Enoch she was in Parowan for many years.

“We’re for limited self-government, so it’s the people actually in charge of the country,” Easley added. “We believe in what the Founders said, would be the best way to put it.”

Easley is one of five candidates vying for the 2nd Congressional District’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, held by incumbent candidate Rep. Chris Stewart.

Easley answered four questions from St. George News.

Why do you think you’re the right candidate for the job and what issues are most pressing to you?

“I’m not a politician. I’m an ordinary person and I think that our government has gotten away from people,” Easley said. “We need to stand up and make it a government of the people again.”

With people struggling financially as a result of inflation, what do you think about federal aid packages and how effective have recent packages been in addressing it?

“The federal government throwing more money at it is not going to accomplish anything except put an extra burden on the taxpayer,” Easley answered.

“What would help fight inflation is if people were getting back to work, creating jobs, creating their own businesses so that they are able to increase their own income,” she added. “That would start the economy moving again, rather than putting a burden on the taxpayer for the government to throw money at.”

With water shortages and drought becoming a major concern in Utah, especially in the more arid southern regions, what is the federal government’s role in securing water rights for the state?

“The Utah state government would need to handle that,” Easley said.

Amid the many social issues being discussed in the country, such as gun legislation or gender identity, which do you think are most important to address for the everyday Utahn?

“I don’t think gun legislation is a social issue, it’s a Constitutional issue,” Easley said. “The 2nd Amendment was written so that we would have our rights, and they can’t be infringed upon, according to the Constitution. So that’s not really a social issue.

“If we start making laws for special interest groups, which we have, based on social issues, it’s not the government’s place to do that. We need to be kinder to each other. Right now we are not kind to each other. As a community and as a country we need to be kinder to each other, to work together.”

Confrontational partisanship is poisoning day-to-day life in America, Easley said.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat,” she said. “If you’re a person in this country you need to work with other people in this country so we can move things forward instead of fighting all the time. The divisiveness is killing is us.”


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