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Show Rampton Says Service In House Won't Help New Senator "Prior service in the House of Representatives affords no advantages ad-vantages to a new United States Senator," said Calvin Rampton, Democratic candidate for United States Senator. Speaking before the Washington Washing-ton County Democratic Convention, Conven-tion, Mr. Rampton said, "A representative rep-resentative would take with him into the Senate neither his committee com-mittee assignments nor seniority. He would start on the same basis as any other new senator." Mr. Rampton pointed out that neither Sen. Moss or Sen. Bennett had ever served in the House of Representatives, Rep-resentatives, nor had their predecessors, pre-decessors, Sen. Watkins or Sen. Thomas. MOf the last 12 Utah Congressmen Congress-men to serve in t he House of Representatives, Abe Murdock is j the only one who ever succeeded in being elected to the Senate. He was elected as a result of defeating a senator of his own political party in the primary, and not by meeting and defeating an incumbent of the opposing party in the final election. "In the past 40 years, no Utah Congressman has ever succeeded ! in unseating an incumbent senator sena-tor of the opposing political party. During that period of time whenever an incumbent senator had been defeated in the general election, it has been by a candidate from the opposing political party who has never previously held congressional or statewide office," Mr. Rampton concluded. |