Frustrated Utah Republicans, Democrats form new centrist political party

SALT LAKE CITY — Some disaffected Republicans and Democrats who say extreme views are co-opting their parties have decided to carve out a middle ground in Utah politics.Taking a centrist approach, the group announced the formation of the United Utah Party at the state Capitol on Monday."We are not forming another extremist, fringe political party," said BYU political science professor Richard Davis, a former Utah County Democratic Party chairman. "We are people who are in the center of the