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Show Hat in the Ring i ! To Whom It May Concern: It Is after deep consider ation and much deliberation that I announce my candidacy for the Utah State Senate District 29 again.Thls district dis-trict covers the five counties ! j of Beaver, Garfield, Iron, I Kane and Washington, i ! The problems we now face ! j as a nation, as a state, and as local areas are of tremendous tre-mendous magnitude. Inflation Infla-tion Is literally destroying us while at the same time j government regulations at I all levels have gotten out of j i the people's hands and into the hands of the bureaucrats who care little what happens ' i to us as human beings. ! Interest rates are running so high that no one can really afford to borrow to expand business, agriculture or to develop industry. We ! must make some concrete efforts to resolve these 1 ! problems at all levels or our entire economy will col- i j lapse. ' During the three and a half j years I have served In the senate I would invite anyone to examine my record and see if I have not tried to serve the needs of our area In a capable manner, and with an energetic effort. I have introduced numerous pieces of legislation and needed a-mendments a-mendments to existing law, which are beneficial and needful for our area. The background I have ac -quired in the near 18 years i I have served in local and state government, I believe gives me an understanding of state and local problems. Issues before the upcoming up-coming session of the legislature legis-lature of great importance will be reportionmentof both houses of the legislature. I believe I am in a better position po-sition to see that we in So. Utah get a fair break on realigning re-aligning the legislative districts dis-tricts than someone who has no background in this work. We will be dealing with the problems incident to the MX missile system which appears to be slated for our area. Some of the areas in which I have worked, which indicates indi-cates my experience, and, which I feel are of help to me in serving you are, Iron county commissioner 14 years. During that tenure, I served as chairman of the Five County Organization, Commission Chairman, Numerous Nu-merous committees of the Utah Association of Counties, Coun-ties, as President of the Utah Association of Counties . 1976 and received that group's award as the outstanding out-standing county official of the state that year. Mr. Matheson has served ii many other capacities, Agriculture committee as chairman, Natural Resources, Resour-ces, appropriations for Gov. operations and higher Education, Edu-cation, and as member of the state and local affairs committee. I served for 2 years on the State energy board and on the power siting sit-ing subcommittee. I also served as representative to the national Nuclear Regulatory Regula-tory Commission. I was the Sponsor of the Sagebrush Rebellion Re-bellion Legislation,, with which we hope to place control con-trol of the public land in the hands of the state so that we can once again build on a sound economic footing in this area. h w h w .... I pledge an ambitious effort ef-fort to help solve the problms of our area and am keenly aware of these problems. IVAN M. MATHESON State Senator District 29 |