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Show Page A4 Wednesday, THE DAILY HERALD. November 4, 998 Provo, Ulah at KIDS Continued from A 1 program that seeks to drum up voter participation by educating children. Among the activities suggested in a Kids Voting Utah handbook circulated in the Nebo District are discussing the women's suffrage debate, going through a simulated voter regis- ;! T tration and examining candidates and their platforms. The youth voters could cast ballots for the Senate, House, county commission and school district races, as well as answer two burning questions: Should school uniforms be mandatory and should the school day be longer? Kids Voting Utah reported 5,700 students participated in the balloting. Among the results: U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, with 55.9 was percent of the vote, compared to Democrat Scott Leckman's 25.4. the Gary R. Van Horn, ' Independent American candidate, received 13 percent of the Utah County votes. U.S. Rep Chris Cannon, ' ' won with 52.7 percent of the vote, while Independent American Will Christensen received 29.2 percent and Libertarian K. Kitty Burton received 11.9 percent. Utah County commissioners Jerry D. Grover and David Gardner won with 44.8 and 38 while respectively, percent Democrats Dan Grey and Nancy Jane Woodside received 18.4 and 25.5 percent respectively. Proposition 5, the constitutional amendment to require a supermajority on all wildlife initiative votes, passed with 31.7 PROPOSITIONS Continued from A 1 The hunting and fishing enthusiasts behind Proposition 5 outgunned their opponents from the start and Craig Axford of the Utah Voting Rights Coalition, which opposed the proposition, saiJ the vote margin represented a moral victory. Proponents raised more than 10 times as much money $596,646 to the opponents' $56,663. "We were outspent 10 to one and our opposition used misleading ads" alleging animals-right- s groups could try to end hunting and fishing, Axford said. "Nowhere has there been such a ballot initiative." Axford said the coalition will dissolve, but one or more of its member groups is "likely to mount a constitutional lenge, arguing chal- that Proposition violates the 14th Amendment guarantee. He said it also is ambiguous as to vote whether the requirement applied to those voting on the wildlife proposition or to all those voting in the general election. Elsewhere, Proposition 4 for must have been a voters on Tuesday: By an margin, they amended the state Constitution to strip felons serving time behind bars of their right to vote. Of the six proposed changes in the Utah Constitution placed before voters, four passed. Prop 1, which passed by an percent margin with 43 5 equal-protectio- n two-third- s 82-1- 88-1- 2 TEACHER Continued from A I 8 percent for and 27.4 percent against. Gary Seastrand, the Alpine district's assistant superintendent for elementary education, earlier said the district will give elementary school principals the option of using the program this year. The Alpine district referred calls about the program Tuesday to Janet Willmore, Kids Voting Utah coordinator. Willmore said 13 schools in the district participated in the program. Provo had all but three schools participating, while the Nebo School District had half of its schools in the kindergarten through high school range participating. Larson, in the Provo district, Nation jam U ff J- 1 X, i'lxM . said students throughout the district were enthusiastic about the vote. In the first hour of voting, 40 students hit the Provost polling place. 'The kids were enthusiastic. They want to vote," Larson said. She expected the vote count to increase as parents came home from work and their children dragged them to the polls. Larson said the Provo district was the pilot location for Kids Voting Utah two years ago. The Provo students were jazzed up by a rally Monday at the Utah State Capitol. More than 30 students went up Monday to hear speeches from Gov. Mike Leavitt and Lt. Gov. Olene S. Walker. Kids Voting USA began in 1988, when three Arizona businessmen went on a fishing trip to Costa Rica. The men noticed that Costa Rica had a voter participation rate, due in large part to the fact parents took their children to the voting booths with them. percent of precincts reporting will amend the Constitution to require that a candidate for legislative office be a resident of Utah for three consecutive years immediately before the filing deadline and a resident of the legislative district for six consecutive months before the deadline. Prop 2 was passed by a 70-3percent margin with 43 percent of precincts reporting. It repeals a provision placed in the Constitution in 1896 to give married women the same property rights as men. The 0 Legislature said those rights already are protected by case law, and the constitutional provision could be read as giving married women greater property rights than men. Prop 3 clarified that lands designated by Congress in the Utah Enabling Act of 1894 and added to later are specifically intended to support public schools, universities and other educational institutions. The Legislature said broad language of the Constitution led to land giveaways. It passed percent with 43 percent of the precincts reporting. 85-1- 5 Prop 6, which by passed 75-2percent margin with results from 44 percent of precincts rtr- - WIS JI LJMMjlA. From town halls, (AP) churchyards, schoolyards, wherever people voted, came Americans' Election Day observations: They are satisfied with the country's economy. They arej dissatisfied with morality in Washington. They are tired of hearing about it. Still, they can hardly help talking about it. Some say it's wrong out its private, borne sa it's politics. Some want a presi-- j dential resignation. Nobody seems to look forward to an impeachment investigation. ' Retired clerk and mail room . J. attendant Jennie Kowalko of Grand Rapids, Mich., where the temperature is a chilly 28 degrees, sizes up the situation. ? "We're not really in a war," she says. Her husband, John, chimes in, "As long as everybody can find jobs, it's fine." ' (iKORGE FRKV The Associated Press sweat: U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon, left, is interviewed at a GOP gala Tuesday night in Salt Lake City. Cannon easily retained his seat for Utah's 3rd Congressional District, as he had no Democratic challenger. No exercises freedom And as for President Clinton's situation: "We care, but think it's private," says f I Mrs. Kowalko. Cannon headed for Washington after fending off minor challenge By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Herald PROVO With 78 percent of the votes cast going to him, Rep. Chris Cannon is getting ready to go back to Washington. venCannon, a ture capitalist from Mapleton,' successfully fended off challenges from Independent-AmericaWill Christensen and n Libertarian Kitty K. Burton. The Democratic Party chose not to field a candidate against him. "It was nice not to have a Democrat. Democrats have a strong organization." Cannon said. However, Christensen was not conceding defeat late last night. Cannon faced a primary challenge in June from Jeremy Friedbaum, a Provo harp maker who claimed divine inspiration in his decision to run. Friedbaum ran a write-icampaign and received only four votes as of press time. said the Cannon and American Independent Libertarian parties are not as the as Democrats, and did not pose much of a threat to his campaign. "I was hoping the people wouldn't send me a message by voting for my opponents, but would send the president a message," Cannon said. However, Utah's message n d may be diluted by Democrat victories in other parts of the country. Cannon is finishing his first term in Congress after unseating Bill Orton in 1996. He serves on the House Judiciary Committee, which is conduct- ing an inquiry into whether President Clinton should be impeached. He ran a campaign since June, highlighting his work to have part of the San Rafael Swell declared a and expanding Arches National Park. President Clinton was also an issue in the campaign. Cannon said Clinton's only options were to resign or go the impeachment through process for committing perjury in regards to his relationship with White House intern low-ke- y semi-wilderne- Monica Lewinsky. He also suggested that Vice President Al Gore should resign or be impeached as well, paving the way for a moderate Democrat to assume the remainder of Clinton's term in office and restore honor to the Democratic Party. Christensen, 61,. refused to admit defeat. "I think a concession is premature. I'm pretty optimistic," Christensen said. He accused Cannon of jumping the gun in calling for a victory. Christensen is also state chairman of the Independent American Party. The party believes in abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and replacing income tax with a national sales tax and tariffs on imported goods. Like Cannon, Christensen believes Clinton should be impeached or forced to resign. But he thinks there are greater grounds for impeachment on campaign finance issues and the transfer of information to the Chinese. Despite the threat of Cannon outspending him, Christensen said he was optimistic that he could defeat the Republican incumbent. Burton, 59, was not available for comment Tuesday night. Burton ran on a platform calling for a restoration of constitutional principles. Burton claimed Congress in general, and Cannon in particular, exceeded its authority by voting to fund the Small Business Administration and to continue y foreign aid. As for Clinton, she said there is a Constitutional process for dealing with him, and Congress should follow it rather than cut deals to force Clinton and Gore to resign. She described Cannon, for suggesting Gore's ouster, as "nuts." Burton has run for governor and state legislative offices in the past under the Libertarian banner. She is the chief executive officer of a recycling company in Salt Lake County. Wilmette, III., 14 miles north of Chicago, 49 degrees, overcast: Voter Betsy Simson is run- - ?. ning from the polling place at Central Elementary School for the train to her advertising job :'. in Chicago, but she pauses witfi advice for Washington: "Think about your jobs, not about his sex life." Bud Gaynor, 70, retired insur: ance executive, wearing a "Wilmette" baseball cap: "If I ; had a message for Washington; it'd be to have Clinton resign." ; ' Face tight with a look of dis- gust, Gaynor adds, "The effect he's had on the people of this ' country particularly the chil- is intolerable." dren . . , South Hero, Vt., 20 miles nortft of Burlington. 37 degrees, j cloudy, raw and blustery: Town clerks Sharon Roy and Janet Yates sit at a table in the-- , stone town hall, built around ihe turn of the century. They v know many voters by name. A thick blanket tacked to the table shields their legs from the draft. Voter Howard Sherman, 42, accountant, is verbose for a Vermonter. "Get back to work," is his i f message to Washington. "I think there's been too many diversions over the last few I. months and not much getting accomplished. A hundred and fifty thousand a head," he says; I overstating congressional salaries by $13,300, "they f should be able to accomplish more than they have lately." 1 . They didn't vote are comments residents who did not Here (AP) from Utah vote on Tuesday: 5 allows the available, Legislature to expand the jurisdiction of state courts so they could conduct original, independent proceedings in the place of a decision by the State Tax Commission or a county board of equalization. At present, the courts can only affirm or reverse decisions. she drove home or to work. The student had played on the high school basketball team, the report stated. Baker wasn't available for This is the second investigafurther comment. tion involving Spanish Fork of High School coaches in two The investigation the after parChapman began years. In the summer of 1997, ents of a female student filed a the school district removed report with the Spanish Fork Wendy Weaver as the girls' volPolice Department on Sept. 29. leyball coach after it learned According to the report, the she is a lesbian. A citizen's group filed a lawinvestigation involved Chapand student suit a man, against Weaver, who the student's parents, who are coached for 18 years and teachlisted as witnesses. There were es psychology. The suit alleged she behaved improperly with also seven additional witnesses. some students. In the report, the parents Weaver is not coaching this to see tried alleged Chapman their daughter outside of year but still teaches psycholoschool. He allegedly called her gy at the school. She, in turn, at home, paged her on her filed a lawsuit against the pager and followed Ker when school district. GOP Continued from Al nor in Iowa for the first time since 1966. Democrats said they were taking legislative chambers from the GOP, too. In a dynastic triumph with implications for the 2000 presidential race, GOP Gov. George reW. Bush won a Texas-sizeelection. His brother Jeb added the Florida statehouse to the And column. Republican Republicans held in Illinois. Ohio, New York, and and Michigan took Nevada away from the Democrats. Democrats countered in d big-stat- e South Carolina, where Jim Gov. Hodges toppled David Beasley, ironically the chairman of the Republican Association. Governors' Alabama Republican Gov. Fob James was defeated as well. Democrats also kept the Georgia governorship in their hands, when Roy Barnes won his race to succeed Zell Miller. The most intriguing race of the night was in Minnesota, where former Jesse Ventura, running as a Reform Party candidate, wiyi a first-ter- pro-wrestl- shocking victory over his two major party rivals in the race for governor. In one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races, Republican Rep. Jim Bunning edged out Democratic Rep. Scotty Baesler in a long count in Kentucky. Democratic Sen. Harry Reid led for a new term in Nevada in a close race with Rep. John Ensign. With the polls still open in the West, the leaders of both parties sought to claim success in the final midterm election of the Clinton presidency. and Senate Gingrich Majority Leader Trent Lott said that when all the seats were decided. Republicans would pad their majorities in both the House and Senate. However, Senate Whip Don Nickles acknowledged tersely, "It's not as good as some hoped." caused something of a backlash," he added. Asked in an interview about the impact of the returns on proceedings, impeachment House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt said, "I think this was a cry from the people to get on with their agenda and I hope the Republicans will." In a closely watched Senate race, McCain's partner in camDemocrat reform, paign Russell Feingold won his race for Clinton foes tasted defeat. In strongly contested Senate races, D'Amato lost his bid for a fourth term to Rep. Charles Schumer in New York. Faircloth fell to John Edwards in North Carolina. Two Winning first terms were Democrat Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas and Republican Mike Crapo in Idaho, both of whom were succeeding lawmakers in their own party. of The trend in House races Steve Grossman, the Democratic Party, said a was overwhelmingly favorable series of GOP to incumbents in both parties. commercials reminding voters With nearly 300 of the House's of Clinton's affair with Monica ' 435 races settled, only a handful had been denied a new Iewinsky was "an abject failure. ...This was not only a colos- term. Only one Democrat, Rep. sal waste of money on the part Jay Johnson of Wisconsin, was of the Republicans, but it also among then;. n ' didn't even know today was vote day. Unlike a lot of ' people, don't like getting mixed up in that political stuff. I like Lily, though." (Lily Eskelsen'-ia Democrat running for 2nd District congressional seat) Ron McBride, 59, University of Utah head football coach, Salt Lake City "I I s "I don't feel like it makes a difference. A lot of people have a kind of apathy for the whole political process these days. The last time did vote was when my father was running for -office, because that was the last time I actually felt nected to a candidate. ... Now, I'd rather just not vote, because after it's all said and done, it's the same old crap." Nells Lund, ticket sales representative, Salt Lake City I well-con- -' "I don't care what happens and I think that I don't know 't enough about platforms or what's going on. To me. it does n't matter." She says it "makes n a latge difference" that she is " from Nebraska and came to " Utah to attend college. Brianna Kramer, 19, University of Utah student, Salt Lake City POOR O |
