Colonial Flag, an institution at the state and national level when it comes to flag manufacturing, report their largest sales period ever, because of demand for the new state flag.
Instead of a limiting Yes/No vote about the state flag, Utah's legislature enacted the largest public input campaign ever held about a state flag, open to all ages and demographics. It was ambitious, but it was far-reaching and effective.
"We the People" designed our own flag.
Myth: Utah didn't ask the majority who were opposed to changing the flag.
Fact: Along with low utilization, a lack of knowledge of the historic flag, and the fact that our flag was just a replication of our seal, only 35% residents were actually opposed.
Reminder that
@RestoreUtahFlag
has now cost the state more money with a failed repeal bill, referendum, initiative, and now lawsuit, than the new flag that they are protesting.
It was never about money or history. It’s their vanity project.
#utpol
#utleg
Since all of us in
#Utah
are enduring this together, we may as well have fun with it. Keep this handy as you follow the people and antics
@RestoreUtahFlag
. The first one to complete a full card with examples gets patriotic bragging rights.
The special interest group against the new flag are currently filing complaints to get it removed from where people have rightfully started flying it.
But enthusiasm is outpacing the "get off my lawn" negativity.
Looking good, Mount Rushmore!
A Red, White, and Blue flag with the Mormon symbol of Deseret.
Not woke.
The blue for our historical flag.
The five white peaks for our five tribal groups.
The red rock of the south.
The beehive & star for faith and heritage.
#Utah
is great, and deserves added representation.
Fact: There is no campaign to change all state flags. States with seals as their flags by default are now trying something else.
Fact: Most of
#Utah
*IS* aware. More than 75% according to polling.
#WakeUp
is code for "There's a conspiracy theory that we're peddling".
#DidYouKnow
your Legislature
#voted
to change your state
#flag
?
Did you know there’s a campaign to change state flags across the USA?
Most of
#Utah
is still unaware! Wake up!
Please share & spread the word!!!
#Awareness
is key
Even before the redesign, more people supported the idea than opposed it. Now, the support number is even higher.
This statement is just not true.
Even if it were more split, I would tip the scale in favor of an intentional flag design instead of repurposing our beautiful Seal.
@SaveUtahsFlag
Your public input campaign completely ignored the voices of the majority who didn't want to change the flag. We the People will
@RestoreUtahFlag
And we will remember who wasted our time and money when it's time to vote!
@phil_lyman
I will back you as Utah’s next governor as long as you kill this new flag initiative! The state seal flag was great and historic, no more of the PC LGTBQ hijacking “woke” if you will nonsense! 70-80% of Utah’s population hates it! Please end this madness!
Heaven forbid Utah replace its flag of ‘red, white and blue with a beehive’ with a ‘flag of red, white and blue with a beehive’…
Maybe Tracie just hates that the Beehive, our historic/religious symbol, is now prominent.
Didn’t know she was anti-Mormon.
As this chapter of flag debate is ending, we’ve realized that we are in a weird microcosm of people whose primary issue in life is what flags look like.
Here’s to us at
@SaveUtahsFlag
and
@RestoreUtahFlag
each finding an issue that the general public actually cares about.
The initiative would ban this version of the historic flag.
The claim that "it will cost a lot more" in the future is not true.
And if the new flag *was* about destroying the past, then it has done a terrible job of it. The state seal is will remain in use in perpetuity.
Two types of anti-flag critics:
1. Those wrongly convinced that the motives for the flag were progressive ideologies and/or cultural Marxism.
2. Aspiring politicos; conflict entrepreneurs overstating a wedge issue and culture war for their own gain.
Don't hate - celebrate.
SOURCES:
@RestoreUtahFlag
plans to gather signatures to protest Utah hosting another Winter Olympics; they claim that Utah officials are attempting to erase the history and heritage of the ‘02 Games.
They also claim it’s a conspiracy to line the pockets of ski boot manufacturers
We love our seal, but our flag could be better. Here's why:
Our seal shows every part of the design equally all the time, but flags are three-dimensional. They sometimes hide themselves.
Look at these; the only things showing are U.S. symbols.
Seals are great.
Seals aren't flags.
@RestoreUtahFlag
Our desire is to add another piece of state symbolism to go along with our Seal and the historic flag it's emblazoned upon.
Your desire is to cancel all the work and time it took to give Utahns an additional way to express their state pride.
The divisiveness comes solely from you
Utah's seal was created by Harry Edwards in 1896. In 1903, a flag was needed for the World's Fair. Governor Wells tasked the Daughters of the Revolution with creating it: they embroidered Harry Edward's design on a blue field. We love our Seal! But our flag came by default.
The "Citizens Against Raising Everything New" Initiative (Project CAREN) claim there's an elaborate progressive, marxist conspiracy against Utah to strip our heritage and become a liberal hellscape.
The reality? Our flag and seal share the same design...
That's it.
#OccamsRazor
This is the flag conspiracy that irks me most!
"The public input wasn't real".
Preposterous, Nonsensical, Ridiculous.
They are conspirators gaining clout by concocting B.S. culture war initiatives.
All who followed the process see that
#WeThePeople
built the flag.
#OccamsRazor
@SaveUtahsFlag
@DeGroote
That's such a ridiculous claim.
The paradigm seeking a new flag, idealized for merchandizing, patterned after "good flags" like Texas & Colorado, was what was forced on Utah.
"Public input" during the process was manipulated to only affirm that pre-selected paradigm.
Ballot Initiatives are not free. Clerks around the state report that it costs them ~$2.00 per signature to process and verify. With that math, a full initiative will cost $300,000 to the state, in addition to the $60,000 already spent of the failed Referendum.
ONE STATE-ONE PEOPLE-ONE FLAG!
Our Ballot Initiative is not only fiscally sound by saving the state money, it’s also unifying. We have volunteers from both political parties.
It feels personal to all sides.
Why? Because, it’s the flag that represents ALL OF US!
#utah
Anti-Flaggers Then: “We need to kill SB31 to save $3,000 for Utah.”
Anti-Flaggers Now: “We’re going to sue Utah for damages.”
@RestoreUtahFlag
doesn’t actually care about the flag or tax money. It’s all performative to gain attention.
Conserve Utah from RUF’s wasteful stunts.
It seems
@RestoreUtahFlag
’s message went from a welcoming desire for pure democracy, to full-on fear and hate-mongering.
Godwin’s Law would suggest that they have now failed their debate.
Methinks they need another
#DisagreeBetter
lesson.
Not mad, just disappointed…
I appreciate the state pride of these children, but if
@RestoreUtahFlag
is successful, none of them will be given a vote on the flag.
A waste of taxpayer money, all to exclude those who can't vote.
And also, what's a "cancel sign"?
SOURCES: The Initiative/Referendum Dept. have also started an initiative in New Mexico to return to its former flag, since it also went through public design submissions, and was signed into law by their governor.
The Luddites of state symbolism.
#SaveMoneyDontSign
🚨🚨🚨
@phil_lyman
is attempting to cancel the efforts of
@RestoreUtahFlag
and their ballot initiative!!
DISGUSTING!!
He wants to take away Utahns’ right to vote on it in an election!!!
@TracieHalvorsen
I am an officially on your side now!
I won’t let your work be in vain.
Some will cry corruption and wokeness, but this is the reason: our flag (which is a reproduction of our seal) was simply not utilized. Statistically, more people flew 'Happy Easter' flags.
Utah's Historic State Flag and the New State Flag can be friends! We love the Historic flag, but after 110 years Utahns do not use it the way Coloradans, Arizonans, and Texans use their flags--with enthusiasm and EVERYWHERE.
#NewUtahFlag
#BeehiveFlag
#Utah
#Flags
Myth: “90% of Utahns oppose the new flag!”
Fact: Only 35-37% (Y2, 2021), (Hinckley, April ‘23), (Hinckley, Oct. ‘23) oppose the flag addition.
No wonder flag-protestors only like the poll results of the legislative surveys they hijacked.
Love this display with both of Utah's flags.
You can see how the details of its new flag are more discernible than the seal.
Despite what some say, we don't hate our seal. We love it. We also love having a flag to go along with it.
The truth is that multiple polls show that only a third of citizens oppose a flag change.
By RUF’s own admission, people care more when you deceive them with false equivalencies of tearing down statues, using rainbow imagery, etc.
The initiative is even more unnecessary.
@SaveUtahsFlag
The majority of
#Utah
Citizens we talk to oppose the flag change. Why wasn’t there an option to leave it alone? The feeling is, there are so many more pressing issues to consider. Was this a necessary effort with economic instability & rising inflation causing many to struggle?
Vocal complainers of the new
#Utah
flag love to show that some legislators’ surveys showed 70% opposition to the flag.
Easy when your own audience hijacks those straw polls before the Session begins.
Let’s try a scientific study:
Thanks,
@hinckleyinst
@RestoreUtahFlag
I can’t believe, in the month of our Lord: October 2023, you still think this is cancel culture.
You realize our state seal isn’t changing, right?
@skaughtsman
@DeGroote
@danmccay
@Flagged4Content
@SaveUtahsFlag
As a Utahan in exile I greatly appreciate the new flag. The only state identifier I had before was BYU merch. But now I have a hat with the new flag design. Before, if I had Utah flag merch everyone would assume I worked a presidential or military detail. It just doesn't work.
Gotta give credit where it’s due, nobody complains louder and more obnoxiously about non-issues than
@TeriBis2165
and friends at
@RestoreUtahFlag
.
I would say they need to get a life, but after multiple failed attempts to stop the flag, it seems like this is all they have.
@USPatri57099386
The beauty is that you are not only free to do that, but the flag with our seal on it is still a codified and legal Utah flag.
Everyone wins.
The folks at
@RestoreUtahFlag
hate the symbol of the Beehive, and now are hiring DC swamp-monsters to tell us how to live out here in the free West.
They have become tyrannical wannabe dictators - who prefer the federal government to a state’s rights.
I am legitimately sorry to hear that they consider Utahns who like the new flag as being members of another team.
The tribalism and concocted outrage of this issue can't fade away into history fast enough.
The seal and the new flag both represent us
#Utah
#Patriots
#WEthepeople
@SaveUtahsFlag
That’s simple not true. That design can be the state logo. You can still have your pins, T-shirts, hats, etc, for branding. Think about compromising instead of creating a divide.
2 flags = 2 teams, not cohesive or unifying.
To understand us 👂 here
This tweet is the textbook definition of Cognitive Dissonance.
- Mad about the cost of the public outreach campaign.
- Mad that there wasn't public outreach.
- Don't want to spend more tax dollars, when their initiative will cost more to local governments than the flag itself did
@danmccay
Sir, if your flag is so popular, why are you & your vexologists so defensive & contentious?
Conduct yourself like a Statesman, listen to your constituents, take the Flag issue to a vote & don’t spend anymore tax dollars- 1/2 million dollars to date.
You know who else liked controlling the marketplace?
This seems to be the
@RestoreUtahFlag
strategy: all their “enemies” are guilty of conspiracy until proven innocent (but then they still won’t believe it).
I don’t know if the sponsoring senator is profiting off this but somehow it seems unethical to be endorsing a business that does profit off the Bill he sponsored. Help
@RestoreUtahFlag
. Take away the marketplace the sponsoring senator promotes and others profit off of.
JUST IN: Gullible members of
@RestoreUtahFlag
shocked to learn that Utah’s Seal remains unchanged during the State of the State address.
“I was told by fringe extremists that it was being replaced by a Commie Marxist Pride flag; why was I lied to?”, a man wearing tin foil asked.
Elderly relative: “I like the old flag!”
Me: “That’s fine. It’s still a codified symbol of Utah, and the state seal remains unchanged.”
Elderly relative: “Oh, that’s okay then!”
@TracieHalvorsen
The people *have* won. The people got a new flag, they rejected a referendum, rejected a ballot initiative, and did not support HB 436. The only voices being taken away are the fringe minority.
Are YOU listening yet, Tracie?
#ImStillNotDanMcCay
@utahsenate
@masteryodaiv
@UTStateCapitol
@danmccay
Everyone whining about the new Utah flag had precisely zero sentimental feelings toward the old one until they heard there would be a new one, and probably couldn’t give you a very good description of what the old one even looks like. The vast majority of us like the new one!
On behalf of the citizens of Utah, I'd like to apologize to
@kslsports
for
@RestoreUtahFlag
spamming anything and everything that has the flag on it.
Priority No. 1 for them is their initiative, but Priority No. 1A is the "CAREN" initiative.
Throughout today. I couldn’t help but notice how many times
@RestoreUtahFlag
was told to channel their energy to work on something of value.
But they’re already trying to convince their followers that they ‘intended’ to fail in committee.
This isn’t the fight of your lives…
@BjaminWood
@CityWeekly
I question that people were attached. They simply don’t like change. I know people that have spent dozens of hours (more?) in fighting this. It’s a shame they couldn’t invest themselves in a topic of real concern. If anything, the old flag says we are subservient to the Feds.
Myth: “The Legislature did not reflect the will of the voters on the flag issue.”
Truth: 35% of citizens opposed, 42% of Legislators opposed.
Looks like more legislators should have voted ‘Yea’.
On the day
@RestoreUtahFlag
is desperately out in public doing spam texts, a storm rolls in.
It’s obvious that one of the most ardent supporters of a new flag is Mother Nature herself.
Referendum? Historic snowfall.
Initiative? Freezing rain.
Conspiracies? Utah’s cold shoulder.
The movement to
@RestoreUtahFlag
is mostly a "Karen-esque" cancel culture of harassment.
Because all change must be evil, tantrums will get them what they want, and anyone who disagrees with them is an enemy or an obtuse idiot.
Diplomatic genius on display.
Have a beautiful and peaceful Spring season.
I’m logging off to obsess about something else.
To my flag friends and frienemies at
@RestoreUtahFlag
, I wish good health to you and yours.
Thanks for loving Utah.
The whole flag initiative is based off of bad info and conspiracy lies.
Truth: Utah’s flag was underutilized and simply a facsimile of its seal.
The seal isn’t changing.
The flag with our seal will still be flown.
It’s not woke.
People like it.
#OccamsRazor
I would like to congratulate The Initiative Referendum Dept. They saved the old flag!
Wait... I'm hearing now that they're still asking for donations and elections to save it...
3 Things here.
1. How dare someone not care about a flag for Utah!
2. It’s weird to have a flag on your flag. That’s like one of those t-shirts with a tuxedo outline printed on the front.
3. Nobody is going to change the Stars and Stripes, unless a new state joins.
🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
The fallacy of
@RestoreUtahFlag
is the "Gish gallop".
Everyday a different (likely false) outrage as they try every possible angle to gain donors.
The truth is: Utah simply added a unique, separate design to act as a flag in our collection of Utah symbols.
#OneSealOneFlag
@LGHendersonUtah
Why are people so mad at the new flag? It looks beautiful and now you can see our state when you look at all the state flags. The state seal still exists, if people want to look at that. But the new flag is great!!
Allow me.
1. Citizens have attempted to add a separate flag design to Utah for decades.
2. After a lengthy public process, the House, Senate, and Governor all passed and signed it.
3. The LG and AG debate whether the proposed initiative is even constitutional.
(It's not).
@RestoreUtahFlag
@LGHendersonUtah
Every
#Utah
Citizen needs to listen! 👂👂👂
1. How the Utah Flag change came about.
2. The process in which it passed the legislature.
3. The controversy surrounding how our Lt Governor did not follow State Law & Delayed Citizen Efforts!
Step up!
Wake up!
Get involved!
If you search for “Grown-up Temper Tantrum”, it brings up
@RestoreUtahFlag
filing a lawsuit because they didn’t get their way, and are doomed to (yet another) failure.
But they say the people are on their side - let’s see…
The Legislature, State Officials, City Leaders, and Utah citizens, when
@RestoreUtahFlag
says “my way or the highway!” …
Time to move on. Let’s work together on something of real import and impact.
.
@RestoreUtahFlag
keeps claiming that they only fail because the rules are too hard.
Nobody buys their “nothing’s ever my fault, and I am never wrong” perspectives.
Imagine if they put their effort into anything else?
And no, a new flag doesn’t prevent other Utah improvements.🤦🏻
I feel for those at
@RestoreUtahFlag
who have been duped + swindled into spending time and money on other people's political vanity projects.
@Chadgs13
and
@TracieHalvorsen
: return the money, or donate to more-important issues and causes.
Stop human trafficking instead.
@TracieHalvorsen
@BeehiveFlag
@RestoreUtahFlag
Utahns added a flag to go alongside our Seal design because our flag was largely unused and the same as two dozen other states.
No Cancelling here.
"Utah’s success is partly due to our sempiternal desire to improve ... I support the newly proposed state flag."
- Sen. Mike Lee
The self-proclaimed leader of a special interest group says to not listen to any special interest group; apart from his.
#NotTheConspiracyYouWantItToBe
@utahhousereps
@utahhousereps
care about history? It’s abundantly clear many don’t by passing SB31. Regain the people’s trust. Come out and publicly support the Ballot Initiative to
@RestoreUtahFlag
. Make it known to ALL Utahns and not just a minority of Special Interest that you listen.
This is true.
@RestoreUtahFlag
touts that it will save $3,000 in implementation costs, but ignores that their initiative would cost local governments HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars.
It’s hard to tell if this would even make
@RestoreUtahFlag
happy.
They can’t really keep track of why they’re still operating.
I Suspect a Crush on Dan McCay.
😵💫
But yes, this is all it is. Adding a flag design to accompany our seal.
#OccamsRazor
Overheard at the last Utah GOP SCC meeting: “some of these people had really good standing in the party before they starting complaining about the flag, but now they’ve not only burned their bridges, they destroyed them!”
No need to deny it, they’re going down with the ship.
Congrats on accomplishing what was intended all along,
@RestoreUtahFlag
.
Now put down the shovel and stop bleeding your donors’ and Utah taxpayers’ money.
Let‘s work together on something that actually makes a difference.
I commend the Are You Listening Yet group for their commitment to their cause. They spent a lot of time and money working to preserve the Historic Flag. I’ve heard their concerns and am committed to making sure the Historic Flag continues to be honored in Utah.
This is the flag
Listen for our new radio ad hitting the airways this week across
#Utah
!
Our
#1
goal is to allow the citizens of Utah the opportunity to vote on which flag represents their identity.
This Thanksgiving we give thanks & gratitude because living in Utah is a true blessing. Utah is
#Utah
Did you know that this special interest group wasted $60,000 of taxpayer money running a referendum they knew would fail?
Now they're swindling donations and lying for signatures to force Utah governments to waste even more money for their egos?
Seems, no, *is* unethical
#Utah
did you know that your government spent $50,000 of your tax $’s on an ad campaign pushing the Beehive Flag? It was also presented at the Rose Bowl to represent the state. Both took place BEFORE it was even presented to the legislature.
💰Expenditure to date: 1/2 million!
Every Utahn (not just those 18+ years old and able to register as a voter) was given a voice - for years.
There were public comment periods, and chances to submit desires and opinions.
Sorry that 33% aren't as thrilled, but
#WeThePeople
created a non-Seal flag design for
#Utah
@SaveUtahsFlag
#Utah
, changing the State Flag has proven to be incredibly DIVISIVE!
Just look at the “games” they’re playing.
How is this cohesive & unifying? Whatever happened to bringing people together to discuss issues?
All because
#Utah
Citizens wanted a voice!!! We’re just volunteers