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Show ! II W DAILY HERALD Thursday, November 2, 2006 "lite future of (his republic is in lite hands of lite American voter." Dwight Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the United States ouse District 61 Krilh (inner Susan Chasson Steve Saunders llhii' till I Orrup.ition. ' l-.unl utlniuiis-' utlniuiis-' . 1,1 I a iin J .mil a I lifcli. ' !: It 1 1 ' I ll I ' 1 1 1 1 1' I Education: '.hi- ' i 'lu- iii ' ' it ii il a ! 1 1 1 i n - ( ' 1 t 1 1 1 n nl I in ri-.il; nl I lull I Fun f.Kt l 1 1 1 1 i l I mi ulrll I i ., ' i i : r,rw ft'iill II " 1 -i T '-I III- ' k i i impr five .in-1 r i.i! i' -, ;inl v, I il- -."-I ' Hit; in ," . . ; it:" 'ii; '." i issih-s in . . "i" ni:"nr. i-mi-ni .: : . !..s!.i. ' I"-' it ii ,ilK i ,. i. . .i ko.nl. he said Hi' .mi i!" hope , in h- a Min e for i m: 1 1! ii :.!'. and he able to up- ;,!. .,f appi-.pi lations to bet- ' :i" i ,i- i stale r oad . .i:.' '.iiwat'ii it ov er said !:' :.;- h' i,.r. an msiile look jnio v. hat people want lor M.' it v Imk.K is.it p opl are really I Party VT" ouse District )(X'krI)ckhai't t Party. Hrpidihcun I ;', 'o,vo I Occupation: Unmcnuikerl rfi- Irird nurse I Education: IUk hclor's de- ;;M'( , Unchain Young Uni- Vrp.if I Fun fact: U'icn sie has .'inn' l.ni hliiii I quilts, and In n nil mostly nnnfic-t nnnfic-t ion nii a fund iiliti( ul in-lr,-nr nl .a will jit the bill. i'-i kv l ot khart isseek- . iim her fifth term in i he state legislature and i' i omni oil a year in v, t. H Ii I.i a makers were able to a" kites-, or start load-(li load-(li v some of the state's onoiii!' issues I nileeil it s almost as thoii;,i: I iah is in the middle ol a i" i I'll -torm of funding needs, and I m khart said she's toi usi "1 on transportation, eilin ai ion and healt h care. "We've had some real ban-riei ban-riei e.u s in terms of trans-pi trans-pi u lat ion hut our need is so ei"Mt that there is a lot left to : Stop Regressive S Concentrating wealth in the few, as a means of bettering all, wanting is more funding for students via local control." he said. "What I can do as a ive is offer an intelligent intel-ligent and educated point of view since that Is my career ." He said one chal- lenge that area schools face is that illegal immigrants place a high demand on the school's resources and that there's nothing the educators can do. "It's whatever the state can do, because it is a federal issue, to follow the law," he said. "We cannot and do not ask them to leave our schools, but they do need incredible amounts of resources," he said, noting that those re- sources are expensive, taking funds from other students. do," she said. Earlier this year, Lotkhart sponsored a bill that creates a t.' 'i "wwum;' 1 new smiles tax option for funding infrastructure. infra-structure. She noted that the Legislature increased education funding by the largest amount in a decade de-cade this year, and that most of the state's budget surplus is coming from the income tax, which is dedicated to education. educa-tion. There's also a "crisis" coming in Medicaid as more people sign up but fewer federal fed-eral dollars are allocated to the program. "Medicaid's costs go up just like everybody else's costs. And the federal government is helping us less, so we're having to put more and more of the state's money in." "'t' " ( Tax Policies! " - fl-frfX- -SA , . .... ti4V' rjf - rafc . Elect Joseph Brierley for Utah County Commission, Democrat www.YesJoseph.org r - More Central Utah listings than anybody. Period. t.flluC rflhi tit jitnilii ifhrf -rVfr iti I Party: Democrat I 4.9, Provo I Occupation: Nurse practitioner practi-tioner I Education: Juris Doctorate, Brigham Young University t Fun fact: "J am an aficionado aficio-nado of Belgian Chocolate. Nothing else comes close not French, English or German. I know good chocolate." usan Chasson says that kevery issue in this race "can be traced back to health care. "Health care is what's driving driv-ing family values, business values," she said. "It is the issue that impacts every issue in the state and we need to do something about it." If elected, she plans to solve the problem by proposing to raise cigarette taxes to fund the Children's Health Insurance Insur-ance Program CHIP or allow small businesses to buy into Public Employees Health Program. She said she wants 4i Kenneth Peay I Party: Democrat I 57, Benjamin I Occupation: Criminal justice jus-tice program administrator, Provo College I Education: Bachelor's degree, de-gree, Southern Utah University; Uni-versity; master's of public administration, Brigham Young University I Fun fact: A horse ufficio-nudo ufficio-nudo who owns six horses, Peuy headed the mounted patrol unit during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games: "It was greut. I rode my horse to work every day." IBSIenneth Peay retired recently after almost I fca.'K) years with the Utah Highway Patrol, and he's critical of some of the Legislature's funding decisions deci-sions for that agency but that's not his focus, he said. He mentions education funding, such as large class sizes and low teacher pay. Starting pay for people with college degrees can be as low 1, ill fr f" fii 1ti.f-ijtj.fj .i1t"-i- f-AfAl to look into universal health care for everyone, noting that the U.S. is the only industrialized in-dustrialized country in the world "that does not provide some sort of system of universal health care." She said the health care issue ties to underpaid educators, ed-ucators, because when teachers teach-ers are given a raise, it goes to rising health care costs. Enough is enough, she says. Teachers need to be paid. "We're seeing changes in test scores, we're seeing schools fall apart and we're seeing teachers leave the state because they can't afford to be a teacher here and support a family," she said, noting that the more money put into education now saves public funding later. as $24,000 a year, and he said, "I think that's horrible." Utah also should be able to provide health insurance insur-ance for everyone in the state, he said. Though he wasn't familiar fa-miliar with the details, he said Massachusetts is moving mov-ing toward it. "Utah has enough moxie to throw out the bad parts, improve im-prove on the good parts and make that happen," Peay said. Police agencies could use more funding, he said, and more officers and training could be used to combat the spread of met hamphet amine abuse. Expanding drug abuse treatment options also could do some good. "It's not working just to throw everybody in jail." is contrary to scripture and has failed for thousands of years. Paid for by Committee to .-. , m ft Kr " star- nwr t . fc A h laAaAAfctAAA a a a a a a a a a a I Party: Constitution I 31, Provo I Occupation: Founder of Support Sup-port Our families I Education: Bachelor's degree, de-gree, BYU t Fun fact: Enjoys surfing the Internet and launching Web sites JPNI teve Saunders sees cre-xative cre-xative funding as a way BmP to solve some of Utah County's transportation and education problems. He said he would sell struggling strug-gling schools to private companies, compa-nies, to make them into private schools, then take the funds generated and apply them to Utah's transportation needs. He said he would like to remove re-move the incentives that employers em-ployers have in hiring illegal immigrants and strengthen the punishment. And before deporting illegal immigrants, he said he would like to make them do community service to build Utah's roads and highways high-ways so they give back to the Shaun Knapp I Party: Constitution 33, Provo I Occupation: Student I Education: Completing a bachelor's degree in multimedia at UVSC I Fun fact: Knapp has several artistically inclined hobbies, including woodworking, sculpture and pottery. I wo years ago, at his local Republican 1 Party caucus meet ing, Shaun Knapp says he "laughed out loud as they read the platform President Bush has violated almost everything ev-erything on there." He's running on the Constitution Con-stitution Party ticket after being recruited by the Utah County party chairman. Both national and state issues are of concern to him, and he said the country is in "a very, very dangerous position." He said he's angry about action ac-tion the Utah Legislature took in 2004 on asset forfeiture that he says runs contrary to Elect Joseph Brierley ii heraldextra.comhomechoice 1 2)tltUl5Tiicral5 community before leaving. "If you break the speed lim it, you have to either pay a fine or go to traffic traf-fic school there is a consequence conse-quence far it," he said. "With illegal we can remove incentives in-centives for people to come to Utah illegally." He said he is in favor of giving parents tax credits and vouchers so that they have a choice on where their children are educated. He sees health care as an issue, as well and said that it's because there is too much red tape. "We need to put control back into the doctors' hands, so that doctors can actually do their job without having to worry about all that paperwork." paper-work." an initiative passed by popular vote in 2000. He also says he's opposed to using the new electronic voting machines, because "there's a lot of dirty stuff there." He also criticized the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006, which severely limits traditional courtroom rights for those designated as "enemy combatants" and charged with terrorism. "We just saw the death of the Bill of Rights with that legislation, and we have yet to see the damage that will have," Knapp said. "People say, 'Well, you can trust the government.' They shouldn't be trusted. They should have shackles put on them by the Constitution." a r y fc X ' J |