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U.S. House District 2-Vote for One

Peter Crosby 

Northern Utah is my home, my neighborhood, and my 

community. I’m running for Congress because our neighborhoods deserve steady, common-sense leadership focused on the real answers to the problems hitting us the hardest.

From lowering the rising cost of living to protecting the local jobs that anchor our communities, my commitment is to deliver honest stewardship and real accountability.

A Family History of Public Service, A Duty to Serve

Service runs in the family

My parents were both in the military, as were both of my grandfathers, and both of my brothers. My wife’s father, brothers, and grandparents also served. I am an Eagle Scout and was a cadet in the ROTC, both foundational experiences in my life. Service is hard coded into us, and my wife and I have tried to instill those values in our daughters.

After an injury ended my time in the ROTC, I knew I had to choose a different path for serving my country. Running for Congress is part of that service.

Safekeeping the rights and freedoms of our country requires sacrifice from all of us. The oath I made as an Eagle Scout almost twenty-five years ago to better society is still central to my life today. Public servants, like our Congressional representatives, are there to serve their neighbors.

As your elected representative in Congress, I promise to uphold my commitment to serving the best interests of my community.

A Husband and Father Rooted in Northern Utah, Who Understands Life Here

Nineteen years in Northern Utah

My wife, Amanda, and I, have been raising our three beautiful daughters in Northern Utah for 19 years. They are kind, passionate, brilliant, and remarkable young women.

We teach them to be honest, to have integrity, to love their neighbor, and to work hard.

I am running to make sure they, and everyone else, have the opportunities we were promised. Please join me to help make that possible.

I started my professional career and had my first child in the summer of 2008, right as our country entered the worst financial crisis in decades. I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in 2011, into one of the worst job markets for graduating students in history.

From having to stay in a job unrelated to my degree to pay the bills or maintain health insurance, or changing employers to have any chance at a raise, to taking out student loans and pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness in an increasingly frustrating system, I get it.

My wife and I fight these battles every day and are launching our children into an even more uncertain world than we started in. Our family has been fortunate to move forward with hard work, a little luck, and the help of programs like WIC, Medicaid, and first-time homebuyer programs, along with supportive parents who benefitted from a functioning system.

A Professional Career Rooted in Leadership and Trust

Leading on the issues our community cares about

I am a first-generation college graduate who has spent my career balancing my family life with working more than one full time job at a time to make ends meet. My professional career has given me a range of experience, from leadership positions in a Fortune 500 company, to an adjunct faculty position at Utah State University:

• Completed a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with an emphasis in the Middle East in 2011 at Utah State University
• Earned a Master of Science in Political Science from Utah State University in 2013, with a focus on America’s role in the international system.
• Started as a staff member working on the phones at a customer service agency
• Rose to a supervisory role within six months while going to school full time and starting a family
• Led a team of hundreds of employees as an Operations Manager, where I focused on customer experiences and operations for large corporations and government agencies, managing a contract with $15 million in annual revenue.
• Transitioned to a position in Corporate Analytics, where I helped Fortune 500 companies implement operational efficiencies
• Moved to Higher Education, where I held Sr. Analyst and Asst. Director positions in Institutional Research for 8 years
• Taught American Institutions courses to hundreds of undergrads each semester at Utah State University for 7 years
• Currently, I am an adjunct professor for the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at USU where I teach a graduate course on emergent and disruptive technology while balancing a full time role as a director, project manager, and consultant in the private sector.

I am an educator at heart, and working with students and new employees as a mentor, instructor, and future colleague has been my most rewarding professional experience. While life hasn’t afforded me the chance to teach full-time, helping others to understand the systems we exist in and how they should function is my passion.

Due to my background in both the private and public sectors, along with my personal lived experience, I am uniquely positioned to understand the needs and concerns of Northern Utahns and the industries that keep our economy moving here in a way a career politician never will be. I am good at finding solutions in difficult environments, developing efficient systems, and ensuring the best possible outcomes for those I work with and serve.

My background has taught me the strength of flexible thinking, the importance of resiliency, and helped me develop the relationship building and organizational skills necessary for working in a complex environment like Congress to meet the best possible outcomes for those I serve.

Daniel Cottam: Daniel Cottam earned a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a medical degree from the University of Texas. His career experience includes working as a businessowner, bariatric surgeon, and as a consultant with Medtronic

 

Robert M Moesinger (From AI)

Moesinger graduated from Ogden High School and earned a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Utah in 201. His professional experience includes:

• Systems engineer and automation engineer at a medical device manufacturing plant [your]NEWS
• Biomedical device instructor/technician (2019–present)
• Research assistant at the University of Utah (2015–2019)
• Pre-calculus instructor (2014–2015)

Political Position and Campaign Goals

Moesinger runs as an unaffiliated (independent) candidate and advocates for multi-party democracy and ranked-choice voting to increase political competition and reduce the influence of special interests. (“Ranked choice voting (RCV) is an election method in which voters rank candidates for an office in order of their preference (first choice, second choice, third choice, and so on). Ranking candidates is different from simply selecting one candidate, or what is known as plurality voting. If a candidate receives more than half of the first-choice votes, that candidate wins, just like in any other election. However, if there is no majority winner after counting first-choice votes, the race is decided by an instant runoff. The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and voters who ranked that candidate as their first choice will have their votes count toward their next choice. This process continues until a majority winner—a candidate with more than half of the vote—is determined.”
He argues that the current two-party system incentivizes representatives to act against constituents’ interests, citing issues such as:

• Declining faith in democratic institutions
• Low political engagement
• Concentrated power of special interests
• Lack of accountability due to party monopolies

His stated mission is to expand the “marketplace of ideas” in U.S. politics, allowing voters to support candidates aligned with their values without being constrained by party loyalty

Community Involvement

Moesinger’s leadership experience comes primarily from his role in his religious congregation, where he developed skills in management, delegation, and conflict resolution

 

Blake D. Moore

I began my career by serving our country in various civilian roles, most notably as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State in the intelligence and defense community. This service first took me to Washington, D.C., and then to Asia, where I gained firsthand knowledge of the threats we face from foreign enemies and where I was involved in our foreign policy approach to the Chinese government. Serving in this capacity also gave me a unique understanding of what is vital and what is wasteful in our federal government. 

For nearly a decade, I worked for Cicero Group, a Utah-based management consulting firm, where I helped businesses grow and helped organizations solve complex problems. My primary role was to collect information, analyze it, develop a plan, and guide companies through the change process. I led projects in healthcare, education, marketing, waste, and transportation. I also conducted extensive policy-related work with public-sector clients as the practice lead for Dan Jones and Associates. This experience gave me both a broad and deep understanding of effective business practices, how to understand data, and how to implement operational improvements. This is exactly the type of experience needed in Congress in normal times, but it’s even more important during what’s ahead these next several years.

Outside of work, I invested heavily in community-building efforts on behalf of the Utah Adoption Exchange and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. I founded a local kickball event that supported the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program, which focuses on finding forever families for children in foster care. I worked to help develop the next generation of Utah’s Chamber of Commerce leaders, and I am serving on the Utah Sports Commission Board as we prepare to host the 2034 Olympics again here in Utah.

In Congress, I now serve as the Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference, making me the first Utahn ever elected to leadership in the House or the Senate. I also serve on the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Budget Committee, and several key subcommittees that cover healthcare, Social Security, trade, and long-term fiscal policy. I continue to represent Hill Air Force Base as co-chair of the Armed Forces and Depot caucuses, and I have advanced major priorities for our defense community. I helped secure key provisions in multiple National Defense Authorization Acts, modernized our depots, expanded recreational access through public lands legislation, passed bills out of the Ways and Means Committee to support children and families, and saw several of my bills signed into law.

 

I have pushed hard to reverse America’s debt and deficit crisis. Early in my term as a congressman, I convened a Debt and Deficit Task Force to bring community leaders together to develop long-term solutions, and I was honored to be named a Fiscal Hero for this work.

Western mountain states are the fastest-growing area of the country, and we need representation on the unique workforce, tax, trade, energy, and housing issues that are necessary to fuel successful growth. Utah’s youthful demographics, combined with the fact that we have the best economic outlook in the nation with the fastest-growing GDP, a balanced budget, and low unemployment, have given me a unique political opportunity to tackle the massive government programs that are crippling our country’s finances and holding back our economy. If we don’t act, by 2053, payments on our debt interest will be by far the largest line item in the budget, consuming 40% of our federal revenues. Our children—who should be providing for their own kids and buying their first homes by that point—could be paying half their income on taxes that go toward servicing the interest on the national debt. This is horrifying, and I won’t rest until we put our families on a better course.

 

Carlton E. Bowen

Carlton Bowen is an Air Force veteran, former American Fork City Council member, and State Chair of the Independent American Party of Utah, running for U.S. House in Northern Utah’s new CD‑2 in the November 3, 2026 general election

Biography and Background

• Service: Served in the U.S. Air Force from 1988–1994, earning recognition in the intelligence field
• Education: Associate degree in imagery and intelligence analysis from the Community College of the Air Force (1994); bachelor’s degree in economics from Weber State University (1996)

·         The national debt is not a Democrat problem or a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

·         Nothing exposes the failure of the two-party system more clearly than the national debt.

·         Washington keeps spending money it does not have, then tells American families to absorb the higher costs caused by irresponsible government. When the two-party system fails to govern responsibly, the debt grows, interest costs rise, and American families pay the price.

·         Carlton Bowen will fight for fiscal responsibility, honest budgeting, and a Congress that remembers it is not authorized to spend without limit simply because both parties want to avoid hard choices.

·         Members of Congress do not take an oath to a party, a president, a donor class, or the political mood of the moment. They take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

·         Carlton Bowen has taken that oath twice before: first when joining the United States Air Force, and again when serving as an elected member of the American Fork City Council.

·         He kept his oath then. He intends to keep it in the U.S. House.

·         As your representative, Carlton will expect every major piece of legislation to answer a basic question: what constitutional authority allows Congress to do this? If there is no constitutional authority, the answer should be no.