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Show Beattie joins few new faces in legislature By TOM HARALDSEN The 1989 Utah legislature that will convene in January will have a few new faces, but nearly the same political makeup as that of recent governing bodies. For Davis County, the look will remain almost exclusively Republican. Repub-lican. In the House, GOP incumbents incum-bents Scott W. Holt, Franklin W. Knowlton, Walt Bain, Stan Smed-ley Smed-ley and Kim Burningham all won re-election, while Republican Nancy Nan-cy Sonntag Lyon captured the only seat up for grabs without an incumbent incum-bent running. Only Joseph Hull of Clearfield, who represents District 13 in Davis and Weber Counties, is a Democrat. He defeated former state legislator Kaye Browning again last Tuesday. In the state senate. Republican Lane Beattie beat back a formidable formid-able challenge by Democrat Nelda Bishop to capture the seat previously pre-viously occupied by Sen. Jack Bangerter, who did not -seek re election. Beattie, a Bountiful realtor, was elected on his first attempt at political poli-tical office. He credited difficult battles in both the county convention conven-tion and primary races as helping him overcome Mrs. Bishop in Tuesday's race. "This was really my third campaign cam-paign within the campaign," he stated. "There were five very qualified qual-ified candidates at the convention, and we felt very good about garnering garner-ing 67 percent of delegate support. And then, of course, was the primary prim-ary with Jack." Beattie dueled with Representative Representa-tive Jack Redd in the primary, a popular legislator who gave up his seat in the House to run for the Senate. "I have nothing but re spect for Jack and his family. They are tremendous individuals, and he has been very gracious in this election elec-tion year. Beattie also praised Mrs. Bishop, "a terrific individual. We had a chance to visit on the telephone tele-phone the night before the election. I have much respect for her." In addition to his experience in the two preliminary election battles, bat-tles, the new state senator attributed attri-buted his win to a campaign staff of over 200 volunteers, his strong background in economics, and the obvious strength of the Republican party in Davis County. "Perhaps what I am most satisfied satis-fied with is how we conducted this O CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Legislative changes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 campaign," he offered. "We were above board in every way and I felt this caropaign was worth of emulation." emula-tion." Mr. Beattie amassed 13,836 votes to 8,213 for Mrs. Bishop. As to priorities for this year's legislature, Beattie said his emphasis emph-asis will be on "strengthening the economy, doing all I can to broaden our tax base. We need to bring economic development down to the county and city level. I . hope to be able to get on commit tees dealing in those areas." Burningham was unopposed in his nee in District 19, winning reelection re-election with 7,686 votes. Holt won in Syracuse with a 4,430-3,696 . spread over Democrat Bruce G. Parry. Knowlton held off Democratic challenger Jay Ann Preston with a 4,586-4,306 victory. Bain easily won another term by downing Democratic challenger Jack Dis-tel, Dis-tel, 8,774 to 3,001. And Smedley also had an easy time of it, earning a 6,238-2,980 win over Democrat Lillian B. Wood. |
