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My name is Jay Seegmiller and I am running for UTU Alternate National Legislative Director.

I have designed this website so that you can get to know me better, and so that you can help me to get to know you better.  I feel it is important that our leaders stay in touch with and interact with our membership.  Please feel free to Contact Me with your specific ideas and questions.  I look forward to hearing from you.

I am running for the Alternate National Legislative Director in our Washington, DC office because I feel that I bring some very important and unique experience to the table.  I have experience in both freight and passenger railroading, and in addition to this I am an experienced lawmaker having served in the Utah State Legislature.  Having drafted and shepherded legislation through the process in a very difficult legislature.  I have learned the process from the inside out.  I was a Democrat in a very Republican legislature, yet had good success with legislation.  In fact, the majority leader in the Utah State legislature once said that no one shepherds a bill like Rep. Seegmiller and if a legislator on either side of the isle wants their bills to progress they should watch what Seegmiller does, and do it. If they do, their bills will progress.

I have had training in every facet of the political process, from campaigning to passing legislation, from dealing with difficult press to public speaking, all of this in addition to 35 years of feet on the ground railroading both freight and passenger and 29 years as a UTU officer.

I was recently recruited to run for chairman of the Utah State Democratic Party, I chose not to run because my heart and passion is with the United Transportation Union and working families.  What is best for the UTU is that we support those in politics who can best help our UTU members, this may not always be a Democrat.  We have Republican legislators who help protect our members too.  Protecting UTU members and American jobs is my priority.  I am passionately opposed to the attacks that some extremely radical politicians have made against working families.  These same extremist are looking to attack FELA and Railroad Retirement.  I will fight with all my strength to protect FELA and Railroad Retirement and all attacks on working families. The UTU and all the forms of transportation that we represent have played, and will continue to play, a vital role in the future of the United States of America.  We need to do the best job possible to keep Congress on the right track.

I have not only fought the fights, I have won tough battles… In 2008 I beat the sitting Utah Speaker of the House, running as a labor Democrat in an anti-labor heavily Republican state.   I know politics from the inside out.

My unique experience and passion will be invaluable to our Washington, DC office.