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Show WedThursFri, March 31-April 2, 2004 Immigration reform heats SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The race for the Republican nomination nomina-tion in the 3rd U.S. House District has heated up over the issue of immigration reform, with incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon and former state Rep. Matt Throckmorton exchanging accusations. accu-sations. "It has become a single-issue race," said a third Republican hopeful, Greg Hawkins, who contends Cannon and Throckmorton are taking too rigid an approach to immigration. immigra-tion. "We need to get beyond labels and have thoughtful debate on how to address the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, our porous southern border and its threat to national security and the outsourcing of jobs to other countries," he said. Throckmorton has led Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, which lobbied the 2004 Legislature for laws that Mining operator wants new HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) As more coal is extracted from deposits in Emery County, it's becoming increasingly harder for miners to get to work. The underground trip is as long as 12 miles in some spots and the company that operates the mine wants a new entry. "This would help reduce the travel underground," said Mary Ann Wright, associate director of mining for the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining, the agency overseeing the project, delegated by the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining (OSM). Energy West, a subsidiary of PacifiCorp and operator of Deer Creek Mine, wants to build a new portal in nearby Rilda Canyon. "It will take about five miles off underground trip time," Matheson SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah officially has a Democrat running for the state's highest office. Scott Matheson Jr. kicked off his campaign Saturday with a rally at East High School. He said that the state was at a crossroads and Utahns should push to move ahead. . "We have reached a critical, moment in time, a moment when binary r si Easter Sunday, April hth . 10 am until 3 pm reservations requested g7 "mrrsTwroiNC "ConniNitn ai ' cucswt 'WUUDIM L itlVICr ' AND Eimoms' fir" ZAOATSURVEY 9002 & RESTAURANT 1235 WARM SPRINGS ROAD MIDWAY UTAH " 435 654-1400 www.theblueboaririn.com Dxxxxx XXXXX&3 x x x x PvMiiicito X 'TSIj Mlro X 88 I iiw iiwiKO 88 Replace Repair Remodel .Natural Stones & X , Ceramic Tiles jjjj 8 ' X K Don Rubalcava j , 435-655-9093 UXX8XX XXXXXQ i - 1 I ... -Il'ft I m 1. I I " would prohibit illegal immigrants from obtaining drivers' licenses and require they pay nonresident college tuition. "Public opinion is on my side, and Chris can't win so he has to throw mud," said Throckmorton, contending Cannon had attempted attempt-ed to paint UFIRE as racist. To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Throckmorton says he will hand control of UFIRE over to another anoth-er of its co-founders. In a March 9 letter to delegates. dele-gates. Cannon drew ties between UFIRE and other "population control" groups that have criticized criti-cized his stand on immigration. At a congressional hearing last week, Cannon alleged these groups front an agenda for free abortion, sterilization of low-income low-income people and euthanasia. "He tries to tie us to abortion advocates. It's kind of laughable. Politics is about coalitions," said Throckmorton. He said UFIRE PacifiCorp spokesman Dave Eskelsen told The Deseret Morning News for a story Sunday. The proposed entry would consist of a 10-acre concrete pad to allow for parking and a shower show-er facility for the 225 miners who work the mine. From there, workers would travel underground to load the coal onto a conveyer that takes it to the other end at the Deer Creek portal. There, it is loaded onto trucks and sent primarily to PacifiCorp's Huntington Power Plant. Company officials say the portal por-tal is also necessary to extend the life of the mine for another 15 years. The mine produces about 4 million tons of coal annually. officially joins gubernatorial race important choices must be made, when we must decide whether we will make do with what we have achieved, or whether we will do better," Matheson said. Matheson faces an uphill road to the top job at the Capitol. Democrats are outnumbered two to one in the Legislature and hold just one of the state's five congres EastEr TCiTT H J002 'P' Your Vision, Our Future The Park has other goal other than to promote pro-mote legal immigration. Cannon said the real agenda of immigration reform groups is to defeat me." One such organization, Project USA, paid to erect five billboards in Utah County alleging alleg-ing that Cannon supports "amnesty for illegal aliens." "These billboards are just plain nasty and grossly mischar-acterize mischar-acterize my bills," said Cannon. "These people are propounding conclusions that don't make sense and are intended to hurt. I'm just pointing out the suspicious suspi-cious pedigrees behind the groups attacking me." Throckmorton is listed on Project USA's Web site as a "pro-borders "pro-borders candidate for public office." Expressly advocating a political politi-cal candidate would put a cloud over Project USA's tax exempt status. Craig Nelsen, the group's which is used to produce electricity electric-ity at Carbon. Hunter, and Huntington power plants. "The reserves available in the Deer Creek mining lease are approaching an end," Eskelsen said. The company acquired additional addi-tional coal leases in nearby Mill Fork, allowing the company to access the coal from a different direction. But environmentalists are wary of the project, which is in the early stages of environmental analysis. "The historical evidence is that these two lead agencies, OSM and UDOGM. are so closely close-ly tied to the oil and gas industry it's impossible for them to be objective about it," said Stephanie Tidwell, executive sional seats. Nine Republicans are vying for their party's nod in the June primary. Matheson, a 50-year-old University of Utah College of Law dean, is the son and namesake of the popular, two-term governor and the brother of U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson. This is his first bid at elective office. He has raised about iiisr'3xy II IT XsJ L-JLifr I nMilv I ril 11 lliltSfcWtStfctt: OLlwUi Record up race founder, denies targeting Cannon or granting Throckmorton special spe-cial political favors. "We're simply advertising that (Cannon) is carrying water for the Bush administration's guest worker program and using his seat on the immigration subcommittee subcom-mittee to do all sorts of mischief," mis-chief," said Nelsen. Cannon said Nelsen gets sizable siz-able donations from the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist organization organ-ization that promotes racial purity puri-ty through eugenics. IRS forms show the fund awarded $25,X)0 to ProjectUSA between 2000 and 2002. Throckmorton considers Nelsen an ally in the fight for better bet-ter immigration policy, but says he does not know anything about his funding. The sole Democratic contender con-tender in the 3rd District is Beau Babka. a former South Salt Lake City police spokesman. entrance director of Utah Environmental Congress. Constructing a portal means having to divert 1,200 feet of Rilda Creek into a culvert, which potentially could disturb tiny bugs that fish eat, at the headwaters headwa-ters of the creek. The facility also may impact the nesting cycles of the raptors that occupy the area, an issue that Wright said should be examined. 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