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Show loovivf-fiomnoy of Oodar City GovG Leavitt proposed to develop de-velop the resource he didn't explain how he would . develop it. Question: Dr. Kent Myers asked why, 1. Interstate systems sys-tems are complete in most other states, but not Utah, and 2. Their position on the FCAG and regional government. govern-ment. Answer: Leavitt said the miles of interstate in Utah may be the problem; inflation, infla-tion, loss of gas taxes due to less traveling, and inefficiency inef-ficiency of DOT, also were mentioned. On theAOG, Leavitt Lea-vitt said he opposed regional region-al government, but favored Associations of Govt. He attempted at-tempted to draw a fine line between the two. (Continued on Page 7) I Thanks to the Cedar City i Chamber of Commerce, Atty. " to. Vernon Romney and Senator Dixie Leavitt both I 'ere on the rostrum last "iday at the Town & Country j Restaurant. j packed house not only Sot a chance to hear and ques -!1on the two Republican gubernatorial gub-ernatorial candidates, but got a quick one-two from Senator Garn, who just happened hap-pened to be in town; a short Be"o from Dave Monson, candidate for state auditor; quick report and pep luk from Beth Myers, 2nd ruraiermp to Miss Utah. wth candidates had ten "tes to speak, but Rom- eyonly took about three to eKat he's done for busies, busi-es, his battles for the Great il and 011 shale md J his shoplifting cam- 2 before telUne he'd S on his record. m took his ten mln- iZ. m the rest of Rm-" Rm-" with a rousing speech, ften offered to set down, aL ,ln'e"lceeper 60016(1 of W?he 84111 hadacouple Jutes Uawitt, not pre- uldntpassitupand for me ech over most another 10 mln- had 016 crowd Wfel1,bfly Anally er nation and answer. ans-wer. !?Sion' A11 questions iatJ.P0Sed t0 both candi- i111-Garth Jones Blation, totaefeerpop- roney said he'd cuiT bl& game board quoted 6 Season k"- 'sCEofwhat ar years ago. i of state legislation to guarantee guar-antee women equal right in pay, civil rights and others where it is feasible. Leavitt admitted introducing the ERA bill, but didnt vote on it since it didn't get out of committee. He's opposed on same grounds as Romney. Question: Land Use? Answer: Leavitt opposed the governor's strong bill in 1973, but thensponsoredSB-23 thensponsoredSB-23 which was passed then defeated by initiative referendum refer-endum in the general election elec-tion in 1974. He sponsored spon-sored the bill on request re-quest of Truman Bowler, Washington CountyCommis-sioner. CountyCommis-sioner. He now opposes all federal -state land use planning plan-ning and feels it should be done by counties and AOG's. Would recommend a task force to develop plan. Romney was short and precise. pre-cise. He's against federal and state land use planning and would accept land use planning only by local initiative. initi-ative. He opposed SB23 and the $612,000 cost. Question: What can we do about federal controls that wiped out Kaiparowits, threatened the parks and threaten the alunite project? Answer: Romney "Take, the bureaucrats to court, as he did in the Great Salt Lake and oil shale cases." Federal Fed-eral agencies are overreaching over-reaching and over-bearing, he said. Leavitt said we must be -come aggressive in dealing with federal agencies. Question: What about initiative ini-tiative referendums? Answer: Leavitt; Recall bill would be appropriate, however, he doesn't agree with percentages and number num-ber and opposes present bill. Spending limit Can't possibly pos-sibly function under limit. Fluoridation Not opposed to fluoride chemical, but should be only on local initiative. ini-tiative. Romney: Fluoride Not proper or constitutional. Should be local initiative. Spending Limits Unconstitutional, Uncon-stitutional, cannot bind future fu-ture legislatures in this m anner. an-ner. Recall In favor, and will accept percentages on initiative referendum. The candidates differed only on regional government, including AOG's, land use, deer population, and the re -call referendum. All local candidates present pres-ent were introduced. HERE'S MORE ABOUT Romney Leavitt Romney blamed the Dept. of Transportation inefficiency ineffi-ciency for most road problems prob-lems and promised to take the department in hand if elected. He stated his office had issued an opinion that the AOG's were unconstitutional and illegal. He said he would not support regional government govern-ment in any form . Question: Use of state bonding capacity for municipal munici-pal water and sewer. Answer: BothRomneyand Leavitt opposed bonding, and agreed that the Dept. of Utah Resources already was into funding of municiapl water and sewer. Question: Are Utah's drunk driving laws legal? Should Utah have police academy aca-demy and where should it be placed? Answer: Romney and Leavitt Lea-vitt agreed that the judges who have thrown drunk driving driv-ing cases out were on shaky ground. They also agreed that a police academy was needed, but they didn't care where it went. Neither was prepared for the next question on how to make Utah's no-fault insurance insur-ance work better. Question: Why cant Utah ratify ERA during bicentennial bicenten-nial year? Answer: Overlooking the obvious that the legislature is not in session, Romney is not in session, Romney, in the only bit of levity he showed all day, said; "You won't like this, but I'm leaving leav-ing town anyway." He said the bill works against women, wo-men, however, he approved |