Annette
McRae

I grew up in Moab and Heber City. That means I know what the Uintah Basin feels like and I know what the Wasatch Back feels like — because I’m from both. Desert and mountain. Energy country and farm country. I didn’t move here to run for office. This is home.

My great-grandmother Mary Chipman served Wasatch County as clerk and auditor. My grandfather was a highway patrol officer. I grew up with flood irrigation and a big garden. Service to this community and this land isn’t something I decided to do — it’s something I come from.

I’ve been driving about 300 miles a day across this district, meeting people and listening. Ranchers in Duchesne. Truck drivers in Vernal. Families in Heber who are watching the north fields disappear one development at a time. People in Kamas and Oakley who feel like the canyon corridor is becoming someone else’s commute.

The same thing keeps coming up everywhere I go: they don’t feel heard. They can’t reach their senator. That’s not a policy problem. That’s a representation problem. And it’s the reason I’m here.

Water, housing, transportation, energy, agriculture — people talk about them like they’re separate problems. They’re not. They’re one system. And when government treats them separately, communities pay the price.

I’m not running to react after things break. I’m running to make sure District 20 plans ahead — before the system fails, before the water runs short, before the highway becomes impossible, before the farm fields are gone.

The legislature writes the rules. It doesn’t run the game. Government’s job is to set clear rules, protect shared resources, and stay accountable to the people doing the work.

I’ve been married to an oilfield truck driver for over three decades. I have law enforcement in my immediate family. I raised five children in this Basin. I’ve had hard years. I kept showing up anyway.

This campaign isn’t about me. It’s about the people across five counties who deserve a senator who picks up the phone, shows up on the road, and plans ahead instead of reacting after it’s too late.