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Show | pda all miter pal o3 MI gD | aa spectre | ro a I FIND MINGO!. Register to win this week: Designs For All Seasons | 444N. Main St, Heber 435-654-5005 A14 FOR INFO! a a a a - |, SEE PAGE : 2—— Did Poll “Push”? ntiInitiative | | tress Dea Riley e Associates commissions Dan Jones For Last Minute “push” Poll DEREK JENSEN COURIER STAFF_ DEREK JENSEN Dea Riley & Associates public rela- County’s current political structure, tions firm commissioned. Salt Lake City’s Dan Jones & Associates to. conduct a two-day poll on the controversial ballot initiative. Dea Riley, who acknowledged setting up the deal with Dan Jones, said the reason for the poll was as much. for demographics as it was for pohtr cal purposes. “The poll itself did not just focus on the seven man,” she said. “We have no means for doing this poll the opposition group leading the fight against the change has looked to Park City for help. The politically 2) a CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT La P.O. Box MI aie Associates Dan Jones about some glossy, member — commission The | : TCH FILES: | WASA Signposts, Observations: ee: | 4 o EDUCATION: School Board Q ) A: All - SPORTS BEAT: Volleyball an ‘ALSO: — Police Ear A4 : Commentary, eS | | Our easy to read elegans! AIS NEW onal WEBSITE COMING SOON! § é > initia- Courier has learned, ILOA S1iOA _ VOTE NO” ie This Park City stamp appoared on over 6 500 political mailers cont tought Wasatch _ County & Summit County opposing the seven-member commission initiative. send the mailers from the Park City . post office. According to a source at the post office, permission to use the chamber’s bulk permit is granted provided the member uses a _ PARK CITY continued on A5_ Anti Initiative Group, Provost Pull Disappearing Act At Debate DEREK JENSEN COURIER STAFF .- By , e group publicly opposing _ Wasatch’s contentious form of government initiative missed a golden - opportunity Thursday to outline its pos+- tion for residents when members | | refused to attend a debate at the junior high school. As a result, the event, billed as a lively exchange between the two sides, turned into a political rally for those in favor of the seven-member commission. And that included everyone in the auditorium. Once it was clear the cecwcd faction would be a no show, moderator Lee Olsen invited anybody in attendance who opposed. the initiative to take the stage in the committee’s absence. Not one in the approximate crowd of 50 ) sow offorce. stood up. But not all were ean with thesone- ; “Everyone in the whole county was | sided affair. invited to come,” Olsen said. “Take a “As a citizen I feel slighted and iiiad look around to see the cream in the ed to take the time to come to this debate county. This will give you an idea that the when the opposition didn’t even bother - cream has risen to the top.” to show up,” said an anonymous resident — While the statement served to_ ~ acknowledge civic responsibility rather _ through a written statement es to the : | than political persuasion, the crowd — moderator. ° “The opposition was invited es attend cs slit ere at their ‘collective “~ .; : 1 Permit No. 6 - Secretive Opposition Committee Stays In The Shadows— thing from the truth,” said Tim Quinn, one of the initiative sponsors who later met. with opposition committee co-chairman Michael Moulton to question the groups tac- Edelweiss Gallery _ ballot of Commerce. that the questions were the furthest : “Arts & Leisure: Bo | Park City, UT no” 6, registered to the town’s Chamber -surveyor and said he was full of crap, INSIDE “vote Postal Patron PAID out mailers, a Park City, UT Permit No. 6 tive. But the mailers, addressed - Dea Riley and Associates, an official “postal patron,” were distributed member of the Park City Chamber with Park City bulk rate permit No. — Bureau, used the bulk rate permit to. ' “Two people siectealy called me and said they responded back to the PUST POLL continued on A4 featuring PAID $4049 US. POSTAGE distributed checkmark, included a litany of reasons to oppose the Nov. 7 seven- initiative. _ fold as BULK RATE County..by the newly formed “Wasatch County Citizens — For Conservative Government” committee. The Manwas U.S. POSTAGE yA o S across Wasatch County and Summit & of the issues in obliterate Wasatch political mailers were because they were con- the initiative, and that the results would be published. But some residents who were called complained the tone of the questions seemed biased against the. election that. neutral Park City Chamber Bureau say, however, that dha” hired an OTTIZENS oe to be exact. -. Over the course of two days, - October 20 and 23, a total of 6,662 prominently ~ committee cerned ith just a week remaining could tion.” BULK RATE “ before ‘other than our own internal informa-— “Riley ©) STAFF COURIER AON ALOA f you were called late last week and asked to give your opinion on. the seven-member commission initiative, you were not alone. Wasatch County Citizens For Conservative Government, using the. AOR Public Relations Fixture Dea Riley Enters Fray In Final Weeks SECRET continued on A& POSTAL PATRON _Presorted ¢ Standard U.S. Postage Paid Heber City, UT | Permit No. 32005. Marriott Library, WEST AM. 295 So 1500 E Sale Lake City, UT 84112 q i |