Jenny Wilson in 2018 UT Senate race

On Immigration: It's not chain migration; it's family-based immigration

Wilson says the one-time presidential candidate should "come out of hiding" and accept her invitation to debate on the issue.

On Energy & Oil: Promote clean air and clean energy

Jenny's To-Do List
• Work for affordable health care for all Utahns
• Secure funding / find solutions for our opioid crisis
• Work on legislation to promote clean air and clean energy
• Support tax reform that benefits Utahns and small business
• Forge alliances across the aisle so we can find bipartisan solutions

On Environment: Build bikeways instead of just freeways

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Indeed it could. On the Salt Lake County Council, I've been working on active transportation and serve on the regional active transportation committee."

On Civil Rights: Supports bill honoring women's suffrage and women's rights

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Along with dozens of Utah women supporting Better Days 2020, I headed to Utah's capitol today to observe the Senate vote to place a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. It passed the Senate! Now along to the House. Martha Hughes Cannon, first woman in the U.S. to be elected to a State Senate seat, is the right woman to represent Utah's historic support of suffrage and voting rights."

On Drugs: Supports legalized medical marijuana; it has helped so many

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "With so many Utahns helped by legalized medical marijuana, I support this initiative."

On Government Reform: Focus on voter suppression and gerrymandering

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "One year later, new priorities. With voter suppression and gerrymandering so widespread, we have to commit to helping as many people as possible get to the polls.

On Civil Rights: Let's keep MLK's dream alive

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Today, we reflect on Dr. King's legacy and how to continue it in every realm of our lives. In our neighborhoods & schools. In our businesses & our churches. In our government, our public discourse, & our policies towards newcomers. He had a dream. Let's keep it alive.

On Crime: Beef up laws to address targeted hate crimes

Jenny Wilson for Senate Facebook response: "Progress. Proud that the County Council on which I serve passed this unanimously and with an expanded list of commonly targeted religious groups. It's time to start measuring the success of our communities by how we treat our most vulnerable members. This resolution calls upon Utah's legislature to step up."

On Corporations: Tax cut: Xmas present to corporations; lump of coal for poor

Hatch and his buddies, Wilson said, appear to have done nothing more than work to benefit the special interest groups who fill up their campaign coffers. "Those corporate interests received the biggest presents," she said. standing in front of a row of red Christmas stockings labeled to represent those affected by the tax bill: Children, families, health care, workers and more. The largest stocking was labeled "corporations" and was filled with packages wrapped in shiny holiday paper.

On Health Care: Keep ObamaCare individual insurance mandate

Critics of the tax legislation, including Wilson, however, say only the top 1 percent of Americans and large corporations will get the most relief.

On Tax Reform: Reform tax code to narrow income gap, not benefit top 1%

Wilson said Congress's rare rewrite of the tax code was a missed opportunity to simplify the tax system and narrow the ever-widening U.S. income gap. Perhaps the bill's biggest flaw, Wilson said, is the legacy of new federal debt it leaves to the nation's children over the next 10 years.

Were she already in Congress, Wilson would have never voted for the tax bill, which she said was drafted in secret and rushed through without public hearings. The bill may in fact have some benefits--like breaks for small business owners, Wilson said. She added that she would support tax reform that makes sense. "But most of this does not," she said.

On Health Care: Medicaid money can fight opioid crisis

On Immigration: Against tearing up families

On Drugs: More funding for opioid treatment for victims

Wilson, who serves on the Utah Attorney General's Opioid Task Force, has been a strong supporter of prioritizing funding and expanding treatment. Recently she voted in favor of expanding jail beds in Salt Lake County so that dealers can be put behind bars and victims can be taken to treatment.

"These are our friends, neighbors, and family members who are affected by this crisis and it is getting worse, not better. That's why I will continue to lead where Washington has failed by prioritizing funding during the upcoming County budget sessions," said Wilson. "A broken federal government is leaving us to pick up the pieces locally," said Wilson.

On Environment: Why are our parks and canyons receiving so little?

A: Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee focus on the "role of the Federal government" to the detriment of allowing the Federal government to actually SERVE Utah's citizens. Meanwhile, state and local government is left to pick up the pieces. One example is that the forest service has no funds to apply to trail maintenance and our Wasatch Canyons are overrun. I appropriated $300,000 in County funds a few months ago to build a bathroom up Cottonwood Canyon on Forest Service land. Why are our parks and canyons receiving so little?

Another example is how little the Federal government compensates rural Utah for its ownership of Federal Land. For example, Garfield County is the size of Connecticut & most of its land is not taxable, yet the Federal government only provides around $850,000 annually to support that County. That's not enough to run basic government services for those residents.

On Abortion: Opposes requiring a 72-hour waiting period for abortions

"I will always fight on this issue," she said. "It is a difficult issue and while these men are enlightened--and I appreciate that--but that's not always the case. But this is an issue I will never compromise on."

On Civil Rights: Fight to get same-sex benefits

On Abortion: Abortion rights are best left in the hands of the courts

And some of the Democratic delegates didn't even like being asked about it. Pro-choice and pro-life terms "are divisive," said delegate Jenny Wilson, who also serves as chief of staff for Rep. Bill Orton, D-Utah. "We need to focus on education and prevention. Abortion rights are best left in the hands of the courts."