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A Social Disobedience Project

Jordan Teuscher is at it again – ignoring laws and benefiting from the inaction of Utah DOT, the Elections Office, and the Utah Attorney Generals office. Leading up to a very important Republican primary in June where he faces Scott Stephenson, the Teuscher campaign is rightfully worried that a conservative candidate running with extensive service in public safety could very well end his 3-term run.  Teuscher is famously anti-union, but he’s also against public education and voter rights. 

Ironically, Jordan Teuscher has illegally posted campaign signs on the overpasses at 11400 South, 10400 South, and 9800 South of Bangerter Highway (all within or near Utah House District 44). This is a violation of Utah State Code 72-7-503, which makes it a Class B Misdemeanor violation to post signs in the right-of-way for Utah highways.  The irony is that the Jordan Teuscher is well aware that he is violating state laws in doing this – not only did he pass his own HB33 Political Signs amendments during the 2026 general session, but he also complained when I ran against him in 2024 and posted aggressively.  Back then Teuscher leaned on the Utah Republican Party and the Utah Taxpayers Association to respond with his own signs and an aggressive mailer campaign that outspent me 3:1.  In 2026 he knows that Stephenson represents a real threat.  His signs are up before the Republican primary in hopes to curry favor with voters in our district – the main issue being that the other candidates have respected the law and NOT posted in violation of state law as Teuscher has. The problem is that no authorities are doing anything about it. Read on. 

The Project “Ask”

I’m asking unions, caucuses, in-boundary candidates, and the Democratic party to participate in the visibility project “Signs on Bangerter & 10600 Overpass – A social disobedience project” by dropping off yard signs.  If you have materials (blank corrugated vinyl, box cutters, zip ties) and want to donate those to the project – great!  

On Saturday, May 23rd at 10AM we plan to meet in the parking lot on the southwest corner of the 10600 South overpass of Bangerter Highway to organize. 

  • This is a drop-off event – we’ll be collecting yard signs with democratic messaging and plan to canvas the entire fence along the north and south sides of the overpass as a protest to the inaction of the Utah Department of Transportation to remove political signs posted by Republican candidate Jordan Teuscher. All of his signs were placed on May 2 in violation of Utah State code 72-7-503, but as in similar years, DOT acknowledges our complaints but takes no action to remove the signs. This only harms other candidates running fair campaigns, the voters of the district, and constituents who suffer under ill-representation of this legislator. 
  • We are not allowed to remove signs. HOWEVER, we can post signs just as the Teuscher has done, and protest through social disobedience. The goal is to cover the fence with signs, giving space not to cover any posted sign but to create a situation that DOT will respond to. 
  • Please bring corrugated plastic (yard) signs that have relevant messages, that are political but NOT derogatory. This is a drop-off event – SIGNS WILL BE POSTED BY SELECT PERSONS TO AVOID TRAFFIC ISSUES. 
  • We want the signs to stay up as long as possible to communicate a message and raise awareness that candidates and office holders should not be allowed to circumvent laws simply because it is controversial for a department to enforce its public duties.

Building The Case of Inaction

To this date, no action has been taken by any authority listed below.  None of these groups have been willing to enforce a Utah law or to hold Jordan Teuscher accountable for knowingly violating a Utah law.  Jordan has been cc’d on all of my correspondence with these groups. He is well aware of the requests and has not taken any action, or responded.  

  1. The Utah Elections Office has been contacted. Their response was “The Lieutenant Governor has no enforcement authority over where signs are placed.” The office chose NOT to contact UDOT to request enforcement of existing Utah laws governing political signs that are illegally posted.  
  2. Utah Dept of Transportation has been contacted with multiple requests, which have all been acknowledged with no action taken. I have begun cc:ing contactudot@utah.gov on all email correspondence. They do not respond.
  3. South Jordan Police received and accepted a supplemental report “UDOT SeeClickFix tickets #21671239, #21619660”, submission reference 260383 on May 14. The report requested that the police department contact Jordan Teuscher to request removal of the signs, and pending no action to charge him with a misdemeanor crime in violation of Utah State Code 72-7-503. There has been no update to the report. 
  4. The Utah State Attorney Generals Office was contacted on May 16, 2026 (CRM:0100332) requesting that they pursue the issue with Jordan Teuscher.  A separate request (CRM:0100331) was submitted to push Utah DOT to enforce its right-of-way rule and to remove Jordan Teuscher’s signs. I have not YET received a response form the AG office. 

Are we breaking the rules when we are the only ones abiding by them?  

  • Teuscher introduced HB33 Political Signs Amendments to modify Utah State code 20A-11 and 20A-17 in 2026 general session this year.  As a state legislator, and one who has recently written legislation on election signage, he is well aware of the state laws governing where and how signs can be posted. 
  • Teuscher sits on the House Ethics Committee.  As a member of the Ethics Committee, there is additional consideration to uphold the principles of law and decorum represented by an elected official.  Teuscher is willfully choosing to ignore that. 
  • There seems to be an overt display of unlawfully claiming space by his campaign. 

This is why a social disobedience project is necessary. 

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