Mia Love, left, talks with Wendy Jones, a delegate, at Fazoli's in West Jordan, Tuesday, April 3, 2012.
Ravell Call, Deseret News
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PARK CITY ? Noted Republicans gathered at an elite club Friday, bringing money and national political clout to Mia Love and her push to unseat Rep. Jim Matheson from Congress.
Love, however, was tending to the needs of her city's residents, some of whom were gathered at temporary shelters in Saratoga Springs, waiting out a burning blaze in the hills above their homes.
Among the 60 or so in attendance at the exclusive event held at Glenwild Golf Club, was Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, in town to support presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his weekend fundraising efforts, and Love at her Friday night event.
Ryan brought along some generous donors and the event hauled in more than the $65,000 that was expected to help boost Love's campaign in Utah's 4th Congressional District. The evening's VIP reception came at a $2,500 asking price, with attendance to Ryan's speech at $1,000 a head.
Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, spoke of the need to get the country headed back in the right direction, and to re-establish the American Dream as an opportunity and not something the government hands out, according to one attendee.
"We want to extend the universal ideals of this country, as an opportunity society with a safety net, a society of upward mobility, a society where we promote equal opportunity," Ryan told the Deseret News following the event. "I think Mia Love is a perfect ambassador of those ideals."
Ryan said Love offers a unique approach to the GOP and he said Washington supports her.
Love sent her husband, Jason, to speak to the group in her stead as the fire burned in Utah County. He hand-carried and delivered her words: "The people of Saratoga Springs come first. They need me tonight and I am here with them."
Ryan declined to comment on whether he is considering a run on the vice presidential ticket, but he is one of several possible picks participating in a Utah retreat for Romney's biggest donors and fundraisers that continues through Sunday. To be invited, supporters must have given at least $50,000 or raised a minimum of $250,000.
Other GOP heavy-hitters gathered this weekend at Deer Valley include the 2008 presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain; strategist Karl Rove, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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