A very important piece from the Salt Lake City Tribune, especially on the day that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mekong Delta) had to request US Secret Service protection...This story is a painful reminder of the ugliness and the ignorance that we will confront in the coming battle...Yes, the "vast reich-wing conspiracy" is real and dangerous (for the corroborative evidence just get a hold of Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars, Lyons/Conason's Hunting of The President and David Brock's insider eyewitness testimony in Blinded By The Right)
Rolly and Wells, Salt Lake City Tribune: As Clement bantered with the audience, one Republican gadfly noted that they defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in that race, adding: "We had to kill off Wellstone to get it." He was referring to the death in a plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his family before the election.
Confront the "Vast Reich-Wing Conspiracy," Show Up for
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http://www.sltrib.com/2004/feb/02202004/utah/140572.asp
Rolly and Wells: Rally has odd sense of humor
Rolly & Wells
Tribune Columnists
Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells
Salt Lake Tribune Columnists
During a Feb. 5 meet-the-candidate night for the
newly formed College Republicans U. chapter -- not to
be confused with the older and more established
College Republicans -- representatives for several
candidates revved up the jovial crowd with such
statements as "We need to put an end to the liberal
Matheson era" and support "the Democrat killers."
As the audience giggled off and on, Mike Clement,
representing congressional candidate Tim Bridgewater,
spoke excitedly about Republican successes when
College Republicans work hard, citing the victory of
Norm Coleman in the 2002 U.S. Senate race in
Minnesota.
As Clement bantered with the audience, one
Republican gadfly noted that they defeated former Vice
President Walter Mondale in that race, adding: "We had
to kill off Wellstone to get it." He was referring to
the death in a plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone and
his family before the election.
An audio tape captures laughter. But both Clement
and Danielle Fowles, acting chairwoman of the club,
said they did not hear that comment and believe the
laughter was just a continuation of the ongoing
banter.
Me, Me, Me, Me: Salt Lake County has produced 750
pamphlets at a taxpayer cost of $1,650, each
containing 12 loose bookmark-size pages with
information about all the good things the county is
doing for you.
Not only is Mayor Nancy Workman's likeness smiling
glowingly from the pamphlets' front page, but her name
is mentioned no less than 18 times.
Must be an election year.
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Speak no evil: Fliers placed on cars parked around
the Capitol on Monday urged the defeat of Senate Bill
175, which would overhaul an initiative passed in 2000
and once again allow police agencies to benefit from
property seized in drug cases.
As soon as they were placed on the cars, a man
walked along the street taking them off. When
confronted by a free-speech advocate jogging by, the
man noted that placing fliers on cars is a violation
of a Salt Lake City ordinance -- although the City
Attorney's Office says that might be repealed on First
Amendment grounds.
It's all relative: When the Capitol was evacuated
after a bomb threat Wednesday, Senate President Al
Mansell complained during a radio interview that it
caused legislators to waste valuable time.
Would that compare to the first five weeks of the
session, dominated by debate about getting out of the
United Nations, the varying degrees of rape and a
special Utah definition of marriage?
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at rolly_wells@sltrib.com.
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