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Show Two-year commission seat should be retained Dear Editor: When this year's Legislature met, they passed a law which made the two-year term of all county commissioners com-missioners throughout the state four-year terms. This is a law which has a very glaring technicality. It was written to take effect immediately, im-mediately, if two-thirds of the Legislature vote for it. While it did pass, it failed to pass with a two-thirds majority vote. Therefore, the law does not go into effect until after 60 days of its passage, which is April 23. The filing date for all elective offices of-fices closes April 15 (April 16 this year because of Sunday). How can anyone file for a four-year term, when the two-year term does not change to a four-year term until April 23, (one week after the closing clos-ing date for filing elective offices)? Wake up, Davis County citizens and all Utah citizens! John Fellows, who drafted this bill for the sponsor, spoke to me on the phone and told me that technically no one could file for the two-year seat as a four-year seat. However, since the bill will be in effect by the primary and general elections and even the county and state conventions, it would be all right to have all county commission candidates file for four-year terms- Do you realize they have taken away one more of our rights granted to us by the Constitution? Instead of being able to vote out two-thirds of our county commissioners every two years, we now can vote two-thirds two-thirds of them out every four years and only one-third in the middle of their four year term. We really need to have the opportunity oppor-tunity of voting out two-thirds every two years for those who prove pro-ve themselves to be of questionable character But unless we elect true, honest, people, who have the love for and the concern for the people in their county, it is going to be much harder for us to get our unethical commissioners out of office. They can literally put us in bondage in four years, if they have no concern for their constituents. I hope we can get a list of all the Legislature members, who voted for this bill and vote them out of office in November, when they continual ly chip away one by one our rights. Pearl Wendel |