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Show The Park Record SatSunMonTue, March 2-5, 2002 A-10 IE iff vis ismitt Poll: Mass. voters favor Romney SLOC's chief organizer hasn't said he's running for governor of Massachusetts, yet BOSTON (AP) Thouch he has- ' Romnev ran fnr the I I S. Sen A Si Hi M II W BOSTON (AP) Though he has n't said he's running, Olympic chief Mitt Romney leads all five Democrats running for governor, according to a new poll that also found voters dissatisfied with the performance of acting Gov. Jane M. Swift. The poll published in Wednesday's Boston Herald showed 57 percent cf registered voters gave the chief organizer of the Salt Lake City Olympics a favorable rating, compared with 27 percent for fellow Republican Swift. Swift's unfavorable unfavor-able rating was 53 percent, compared with Romney s 8 percent. The poll also showed Romney, who has homes in Massachusetts and Utah and has not announced his political plans, outpacing, jlhe Democrats, while Swift lagged behind top contenders. j Romney ran for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 1994. Romney was, favored over state Treasurer Shannon P O'Brien by 6 points, 38 percent to 32 percent, and over former for-mer U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich by 9 points, 40 percent to 31 percent. Romney held double-digit leads over the other candidates. "If he did want to get into the race, he'd be better off doing it sooner soon-er than later to capitalize on these numbers while people are still thinking think-ing about the Olympics," pollster R. Kelly Myers said. The poll found that O'Brien led Swift by 19 points and Reich led by 18 points. v ;. The RKM Research and Communications poll of 406 registered regis-tered voters was conducted Feb. 24-26 24-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. The state Republican Party plans on April 6 to hold its convention; at which the party will endorse a candidate candi-date for governor. -1 Eight GOP activists planned to gather Thursday to plot strategy to put Romney on the ballot, Tl)e Boston Globe said. But the newspaper newspa-per said Swift aides plan to raise questions about Romney residency. The Associated Press reported jn 2000 that Romney claimed his official offi-cial residence as Deer Valley, Utah, when' he filed his income taxes that year. Massachusetts law requires a candidate for governor to live in the state for at least seven years. ; Romney supporters said he has maintained his home in Belmont as his primary residence, and he h$s kept his voting registration there. ; In 1 994, Romney challenged Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, giving the Democrat his toughest re-electicjn battle. Early polls showed the two ijn a virtual tie, but Kennedy ended up winning 58 percent to 41 percent, i Bill would protect hog farms SALT LAKE CITY (AP) the Utah Legislature approved a pill Wednesday that would protea a hog farm's operations in Iron County from facing criminal nuisance nui-sance charges. The House signed off onjthe measure by a 58-10 vote. The Senate had already approved ihe bill. It how goes to the governor to sign into law. Iron County Attorney Scott Burns said the Legislature has j ut-ted ut-ted a nuisance ordinance crealed after 10 public hearings as recourse against Circle Four Farms, a large i 1 ' 1 f . ' if Banking, investments, and insurance, all under one roof. That's something to celebrate! Now that KeyBank's new Park City KeyCenter is officially open, let us show you how convenient it is to manage all your financial services from one location. Whether you're shopping for. car insurance, depositing a 'Check-, or planning your retirement, you can do it all here, saving you time and money. Come by, and we'll show you what all the noise is about. Come by our new KeyCenter or call 435.655.7093 to open an account today. ? KeyBank U. Achieve anything. r k rem ii n on 1 W Mi illHti Sfi dm4h lWiW Banking Investments Insurance KeyBank is Member FDIC industrial hog operation. Rep. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, who carried the legislation in the House, said law will protect the large farms from threats of the criminal action for such things as odprs. Burns, however, said there has been no threat of criminal charges and that the ordinance was created to safeguard the public from future actions by Circle Four Farms. He said that now, unless there is a clear public health or safety issue, Circle Four Farms is immune from civil and criminal penalties. Circle Four Farms is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods and markets its product under the Farmer John brand name. The company employs 425 people in Utah. The company has 500,000 swine at its Utah operations at any given time. It sent 850,000 hogs to slaughter slaugh-ter last year and hopes to increase production to 1.5 million by 2010. Last year, a fire killed 12,000 pigs at a farm near Milford operated operat-ed by the company. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Leonard Blackham, R Moroni, a turkey farmer. Rep. Bradley Johnson, R-Aurora, spoke in favor of the measure. He said his cattle-feeding operation is being "hassled" by a few people who have brought a civil lawsuit against himi "If we dont give farmers some protection against a few people, we're going to find that agriculture will leave our state," Johnson saidj Burns said the law may be cha(-lenged cha(-lenged if the hog operation becomes "so offensive to citizens. 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