Midvale • It was probably appropriate that the Utah GOP State Central Committee met Saturday at the Top Golf driving range clubhouse because teed-off moderate and conservative wings of the party spent the day swinging — at each other.
• The right wing successfully ousted — over protests by moderates — several minority and female members of the 183-member central committee of GOP leaders from around the state. It came despite complaints that it amounted to racism.
• Three blacks running for party vice chairman, out of a field of 13 candidates, also were unsuccessful — including right-wing former Chairman James Evans.