One Giant Leap on The Road to Real Elections
My name is David R. Gillie. I am running to become your next Cache County Clerk, and I am asking for your vote this November.
It was on careful consideration that, in 2024, I ran for County Clerk unaffiliated with a political party. Some of the same considerations nearly led me to the same decision this year. The dangers of allowing our party affiliations to compromise sound citizenship and alienate each other are real. I intend to post a video to this site soon, in which a friend and I discuss how partisanship has threatened our freedom and our concord, both in the past and today. Acutely aware of these dangers, I have nevertheless decided to seek the nomination of the Constitution Party this year. If nominated, I will run officially as the Constitution Party candidate for Cache County Clerk. Should I ever descend into the narrow partisanship of which I warn, and which has more than once nearly destroyed our Country, I expect you to point it out, and promise to post your criticism on this site.
In all other respects, my 2026 campaign will look a lot like the one two years ago. You can expect more carefully-considered thoughts on the often overlooked, but vital, role of the County Clerk in sustaining republican self-government.
I see the same issues in precisely the same light in 2026. As I said then of the Clerk’s election responsibilities, the County Clerk is only an enabler in a vital Civic Duty that we as citizens all owe to each other, but are failing to deliver. That duty is to conduct open, honest elections at stated times, in stated places, on principles that have received our common consent, because they reflect respect for ourselves and each other and inspire confidence in ourselves and each other as citizens. The imperative to repent of our complaisance and fulfill once more this vital Civic Duty to each other is more urgent in 2026 than in 2024.
To the 22% who voted for me in 2024, Thank You! That was an astounding result, since — so far as I ascertained then, and with the dramatic exception of my friend, Patrick Belmont, who garnered 46% — no other politically unaffiliated candidate for any office in this State in 2024 garnered more than 5% of the vote. If I have got this wrong, somebody please correct me.
To the rest of my fellow citizens in this County, please take the time to read, listen, and consider. For my part, I will do my best to persuade you
Here’s to our Civic Repentance in Cache County, in Utah, and in our beloved United States,
David R. Gillie
One Giant Leap on The Road to Real Elections
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CDR David R. Gillie's 30 years of Navy service; proven leadership experience; years of thinking deeply about, teaching, and publishing on American Civics; together with his fierce determination to make Cache County a beacon of more serious citizenship to the rest of the State, all make him the right choice for Cache County Clerk.
The first American citizen in my family, I am passionately committed to our ever doubtful, ever hopeful, American Endeavor: to secure FREEDOM under LAW with and among our families, neighbors, and fellow citizens. I have devoted significant portions of my life to this noble endeavor, as an enlisted Sailor; as a Navy Officer; and as a professor, itinerant lecturer, and writer. By my candidacy to become your next County Clerk, I seek to make another contribution to this endeavor, this time in a sphere closer to home.
I enlisted in the United States Navy in 1989. Along the way, I earned an officer's commission and retired a Commander after 30 years' service. My service enabled me to make contributions to the American Endeavor of which I could scarcely have dreamed: I served as a diplomatic interpreter, inspected strategic submarine bases of the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation, directed Signals Intelligence and Information Operations at sea and ashore, conducted advanced research and development projects, helped to prepare significant war-making and force development decisions on major Navy and Joint staffs, and led some of our Navy's finest Sailors as Officer in Charge, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer.
From time to time across the years, alongside primary Navy duties, I have taught Intelligence and National Security at U.S. Government civilian and military institutions, as well as at private universities, while occasionally lecturing on Foreign Affairs and American Civics in 12 states and publishing in such journals as National Review, The Clausewitz Homepage, and Public Square Magazine.
I headed the committee last year that, in honor of Independence Day, organized the dramatic reading of the Declaration of the Independence on the steps of the Old Cache County Courthouse. In honor of our Country's 250 th , I am leading Cache Valley's Independence 250 Committee this year. We are raising citizenship to a much more serious level, getting citizens to memorize and recite the Declaration, conducting Civic Devotionals and Shews; and sponsoring standing exhibits, and lectures — to make January through December a Year of Civic Repentance (https://yearofcivicrepentance.org).
A widower with a second family, I am father to a son by my deceased wife, Amy Ellen Gillie, and —with my second wife, Lilian de Oliveira Gillie — adoptive father to a daughter and stepfather to three sons and three daughters.
Since retiring to Cache Valley six years ago, Lilian and I love serving in Church, working our tiny Logan farm together, and playing with our seven delightful grandchildren.
