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Show N I V E s I y ! I I • 'Stand up and f,ght for the standards you believe In,' said U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) during his presidential fund-raising stop in Cedar City. Hatch promised to take his experience and his abiflty to work with both Republicans and Democrats to the White House. Hatch said he could become the next president, and he intends to do so. Hatch makes presidential campaign stop BY ANNA TURPIN ASSOCIATE EDITOR Senator and presidential candidate Orrin Hatch called for citizens' financial support in his visit to Cedar City last Saturday as a part of his campaign tour across Utah. Hatch, who is the first presidential candidate to visit Cedar City in decades, spoke to a sparse crowd in the Sharwan Smith Center Ballroom and stressed the importance of morality in the V\lhite House and holding the Constitution together. "This year I'm concerned," Hatch said. "[Elected officials) are tolerant of everything that is bad and intolerant of everything that is good.· He asked all Utah citizens to donate $36 to his campaign. He said he doesn't want to be elected by special favors, but he wants to · run for the people, supported by the people and their campaign." Hatch has been in the senate for 23 years, longer than any other candidate for the presidential election in 2000. Hatch said he fought against the odds to be elected senator and is also going to fight hard in this campaign. "If you don't think I have the guts to do this, you don't know me,· Hatch said. "Some of our own soldiers whom we expect to lay Among other goals listed, Hatch said he wishe·s to bring morality back into the VVh1te House Hatch said he down their lives for this country have been qualified for can do this simply by his example of being honest and . food stamps because we don't pay them enough," Hatch morally clean. He said, · 1have never even touched said. He also said, "People don't realize that we aren't in a marijuana so I won't ever need to say, ' I didn't inhale ·• He said he also wishes to empower families "Marriage position to even defend ourselves if someone attacks us on our home ground. We want dissenters to know that is no longer sanc1tified,• he said. "Many don't even have there's a price you pay for 'taking on' America." the moral desire to be married ... and there are actually Hatch said he wants to bring Utah to America. "I'm taxes imposed on married couples.· Hatch said he wants tired of Utah being put down," he said. to bring back a sense of values in society, to make streets, homes and schools safe and protect children "I'm tired of our religious stands and viewpoints being put down and I'm tired of our western way of living being from the scourge of drugs. Among the list of his goals, if elected president, were put down." Daniel Patterson, an ecologist from Escalante. Utah, to save Social Security and Medicare, bridge the race stood to the side of ttie stage where Hatch spoke and and class divisions and knock down preJudices on religious farth. held a cardboard sign reading, "Hatch for Retirement" ·1can't do anything, anything, about bigotry and close- and · save Wild Utah.· He said, "Hatch has a long record of blocking efforts to minded intolerance,· Hatch said, "but I can do something protect Utah wilderness. I don't disrespect him as a man about people who are misinformed • He's a powerful senator and he's been able to prevent Hatch stressed his desires to strengthen the U.S efforts to designate thousands of acres in southern Utah military. Unique to Hatch in comparison to the other to be protected under the wilderness status.· candidates, he has been on the Intelligence Committee Hatch did not address Patterson, nor did Patterson's twice in his years working in the government. He said presence disturb Hatch's speech. Amenca is down to 30 percent in military capability ' I• |