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Show a -- oo0 the .ENTERPRISE PRAGMATIC DOGMATICS Ihus tar. they slum- little sign of meeting this challenge. Three ciphers are announced, and one college professor lurks in the wings. It is dubious any of those can. or will, defeat Marriott. But there is one Second District Democrat who would be formidable indeed. He is Salt Lake Mayor Ted Wilson, who is handsome and articulate, if not particularly perceptive or effective. Why not draft, then run, him? 2. Legislature. This years State Senate contests are especially important. Carrying four year terms. Senators chosen this year will participate in the certain reapportionment and likely Congressional rcdistricting that will attend the 1980 census. Of the seven Republican seats up, only two offer any Democratic opportunity at all. However, five of eight presently in Democratic hands (those of Dean, Howe, Macfarlanc, Peterson and Warner) are threatened, and Democrats should afford priority to their Advice to Democrats 2. County offices. It is no secret that Salt Lake County Republicans face a queer problem, about which they arc not gay. Their only - by Kent Shearer It is not my habit to offer advice to Demo- crats. This disinclination arises from the fact that Democrats generally prove more cunning than Republicans at placing government onto our backs and into our pockets. Why cast (real or imagined) pearls before swine? On the other hand, I am enough of a gamesman to be upset when any contestant does not suit up its best players or even appear to have a game plan. In that Utah Democrats now seem to be in that sort of despair, I am impelled to suggest the following. 1. Congress. Democrat Gunn McKay in the First District is so safe that the GOP is willing to cede the nomination to Birchcr Joe Ferguson. The real Democratic opportunity is in Utah's Second, now represented by freshman Republican Dan Marriott. holdover officer stands accused of sodomy, and they wonder whether they should not adopt the collective slogan, We do not love our fellow' men." The situation is ripe lor exploitation and once Wilson is drafted for Congress the present Democratic aspirants for that position well could constitute an attractive reserve for county races. 4. Overall In every endeavor, Utah Democrats must avoid President Carter like the plague. He lost the state worse than any other in 1976 and what with the Central Utah has gone down hill Project issue and all from there. It would be better, far better, to run as the party of Rampton, Mathcson and McKay. Further, to do so would demonstrate that the Democrats have regained the cunning to which I first referred. 7 WHY bJ'P-kxmt- e. M7 I- - J W Citing the cause easy by Parker M. Nielson h-- z o0. oc LU z 3 o o It appears that Governor Mathcson has overlooked important "cause" for removing embattled liquor the most commis- sioners Caleb Shrcevc and Zanc Alder. Cause," it would seem, should relate to the commissioners duties defined in the Intoxicating Liquor title of the Utah Code. Chapter 1, Sections 4 and 6 contain the commandments" on the subject. There.' it is written, the Liquor shall be run as a public business using sound Commission w'hich managment principles and practices" in a manner reasonably satisifics the public's demand." Explicit in other sections is that the commissioners should mitigate, if not eliminate, abuses such as public drunkenness. Using wine as an example, the list of table wines (i.c. desexcluding specialty items such as sparkling, appetizer or sert wines) by Shrcevc and Alder for the month of February, but not a single chateau bottled wine or shows 76 items domestic wine bearing a vintage date. Even Store No. 1 , the connoisseurs outlet, stocks but two obscure chateaux and no domestic vintage of distinction. Other than tabic wines, the list includes such delicacies as Thundcrbird. Ripple. Annie little Grccnsprings, Boone's Farm and Paisatio. The items have to commend them save their cheap price, and for that reason many of them arc favorites on skid row. California Wines, By contrast, the 1975 Buying Guide to 153 wine makers in published by and for consumers, lists California alone, and rates 800 red and 639 white California in wines, for a total of 1439. Alexis Lichinc lists 480 chateaux that fabled 80 mile stretch along the Gironde known as wine. which produces some of the worldss greatest and arc virtually These wines arc the favorites of connoisseurs - so-call- Haut-Mcdo- ed c, never purchased by drunks, but no one California wine listed as "great" or any on Lichinc's list is available in Utah at any price, even at Store No. 1. Thundcrbird. and its ilk, do not make the lists. Multiplied by the number of prime wine making regions of the world, there arc literally tens of thousands of shelves of Utah liquor stores. No liquor store should be expected to stock them all, but they should supply a representative sampling. HoffA check of the better stores in neighboring states man's in Denver, Pearson's in L.A., Connoisseur Wine Imwill reveal hundreds and perhaps thousands of ports in S.F. these premium wines. Cause No. 1, therefore, is that Messrs. Shrecve and Alder have catered to the demands of skid row drunks, which they were commanded not to do. Cause No. 2 is that they have ignored the needs of the public, which the legislature directed they meet. Cause No. 3 is that they have contributed to making Utah a joke. Their deeds are so bad that the typical response of a waitress in this state to a request for the wine list is: we have red or white," only to find the red is really rose. Imagine the shock of outsiders who encounter Utahns ordering B&G" or Cruse," never realizing that they arc not wines, or even wine makers, but merely names of negotiants. But I should not poke fun at the Liquor Commission, for as Commissioner OKeefe said, they do that well enough for themselves. Moreover, OKeefe has influenced the addition of a smattering of respectable wines to the otherwise disgraceful list, such as the Scbastiani and Beaulieu labels. There may yet be hope, x |