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Show Page Six - The Eureka Reporter - November 1,2002 Number Baseball-m- ore than just a game Millions of Americans have been glued to their television sets rooting the Angels or the Giants in ballot to a World Series victory. Why? residents voting cast a Because baseball, like all sports, favor of the boundary change! exemplifies and rewards heroism, Today, if county officials purposefulness and ability, said determine that is in the best Ayn Rand Institute senior interest of the residents in a writer. giving Bowden said that today, in neighborhood to have a boundary "The essential value of specta- - by Senator Carlene Walker What if the boundary that divides the county where you live from the adjoining county rand down the middle of your neighborhood street? Imagine the contusion: who pnwnta the hundred of ambulance, tire and otto serm- - adjtm(.M must m ,y and receive the counties both i" children attend, will vo 0f a supyr majority of assessed a higher amount fo this burden Not services than your neighbors that live in live just across the street . divided neighbor to await election 1 sponsored legislation m the 2002 General Session of the results and learn their fate, but it Legislature to give counties a is also costly to all of the county more efficient way to resolve taxpayers who assume the costs subdivisions associated with the countywide when problems straddle county lines. The bill election process, While the constitutional provi-o- f also provided a more realistic set to sions change requirements voting may have made sense in a boundaries. After thorough de- . shuld K d'ffcren' ' and the Senate bate in the State realities of this changed to reflect the Mouse of Representati'.s our growth in 21st century Utah, legislation passed with over- Amendment Constitutional whelming support in both houses iqumber 2 allows counties sharing of the legislature and is now a common l0 make a siibjLXt to voter approval on the minor adjustmcnts 0 lheir com-- . (jveinber 5 electum ballot. mon boundary. Any changes My proposed change to helps made be woujj by a joint action of the county legislative bodies . . . (County Council or County Com- 1 ns situation is becoming 0f each county sharing more frequent as the population mjssjon) the CUImon boundary. Small of our state grows and new hous- 0uld not bounda adjuslments mg developments are bu.lt across rcquiR. approval. Minor uncontested boundary county lines. A common sense response would be for the county changes simply do not justify the officials to develop a plan to enormous expense of a county- boundaries their to remedy wide election. This amendment adjust any problems. Unfortunately, our would allow counties to make state constitution prevents an easy those minor adjustments through solution to any boundary changes their elected officials without sought by Utah citizens. having to incur the substantial The Utah Constitution reexpense of an election. quires any change of a county Under Constitution Amend- no how matter minor, ment Number 2, all other propos-t- o bouiulary, be approved by a majority of als to move part of one county to all registered voters who live in another would continue to be the county-n- ot just a majority of subject to voter approval. But the voters who vote in the election! Amendment would change that This requirement creates an vote requirement to make better almost impossible hurdle to over- - sense by modifying the require-com- e. for example, it a county ment so that a move may be has 10. (XX) registered voters but approved by a majority of those only 6,000 actually cast a vote on actually voting on the proposal, a proposed change of a boundary This is consistent with standard line, the adjustment would not be voting requirements in federal approved unless over 80 of the and state law. , 0, I i:M) (1 & (cpC VOTE It YEAL3 OFBUSINE8S MANAGEMENT. 2. FTAFLESXDENT. 3. BASEBALLTLEASULEL F0L1YEAES. 4.- TLEASULEL AND BO AID MEMBELOFJUABCO. FILE DISTLXCT POL FAST 2 TEALS 3. STATE DELEGATE POL JUAB COUNTY. 5. BASEBALL COACH POL FAST7YEALS. 7. POOTBALLCOACH POL FAST2YEALS. ARKS THE SPOT!!!! HOI IT CAVBIMTI who Really The answer s obvious: Republican Rob Bishop Stands With, tile In Utah't First Congressional Distr I. which candidate will support the President's not against policies and work with him him in both domestic and defense matters? Pres. Bush and Congressman Jim Harucn believe the answer is obvious: Republican Rob Bishop. 1 am honored to have worked with Jim Hansen, he provided Utah with consistent and solid leadership on Issues critical to the West. You can be certain that Rob Bishop will carry on the Hanser. !&jncy in Congress. In Utah, Rob has led out on important issues and I am certain he will continue to be a leader for Utah and the West. President George W. Bush For over twenty years. I've been honored to represent Northern Utah in Congress. Now, the question is, who is best prepared to stay the course and represent you in Congress? There's no doubt in my mind: it's Rob Bishop. He has the experience that matters, he's right on the issues, and os a true Northern Utahn, he is the kind of man Utah needs in Washington. Please join me in voting for Rob next Tuesday. Rep. Jim Hansen Ask President Bush and Congressman Hansen. Ask his neighbors who elected him eight times or his legislative colleagues who unanimously selected him to be Speaker. Ask the students who have gone through his classroom for the last 28 years. Then ask yourself: What does America need most right now? The leadership and common sense of Rob Bishop. 1. MB and achievements. mi T ji America, traditional sources of inspiration have dried up, but baseball gives a rare, direct glimpse of heroes in action. He noted that sports in general illustrate the standards to which our society should aspire: - Athletes earn their way onto the field by proving their superior handtor sports, like baseball, lies in ability, not by demanding a their capacity to demonstrate, in out. a dramatic way, the process of - Athletes follow explicit, said human rules that apply to Thomas Bowden. "Sports do this intelligible and which are by making the process shorter, every participant enforced. simpler and more visually excit-a- n uniformly - Athletes take an unapologet-i- c, life-and by ing than it is in daily selfish pride in their abilities us heroes to admire." A COMMON MAN, UNCOMMON LEADERSHIP PAID FOR BY BISHOP FOR CONGRESS PO Box 2002 Brigham City. Utah 84302 801.292.5577 PHONE 801.292.5595 FAX www.votebishop.com JIM MAXWELL JUAB COMMISSIONER turf CONGRESS |