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Show Th AA3 Maybe ’99 Will Be Democrats’ Year, as They Target Salt Lake City Mayor’s Race Nowthat the 1998 election is over and Utah Democrats’ perennial “‘this is the year” fantasy has succumbed to the reality that emerges onthefirst Wednesday of November, it is time to preview the 1999 Salt Lake City mayor's race. Thatwill be the biggestpolitical game in town next year and should consume most of the conversation time among those political junkies who seemingly haveno life, presuming the NBA season doesn’t start soon. The odd-year election between federal and state races that pops up every four years actually may bethe year for Utah Democrats, since the mayorof Salt Lake City is nearly the only major raceleft that a Democrathas a hope of winning. Sure, Democrat Jan Grahamisthe at- torney general, showingthat a moderate, hard-working, articulate attorney can actually win a statewide race with a Democratic label — providing she is a woman. But for the other Democrats in Utah who hanker for a chance to show their Republican and independentranks. lated because she was a Jewish member of the school choir and forced to sing Christian songs; representing the family of a prison inmate who died after being strapped down for many hours at the to get police to investigate what turned out to be serial killer of young women a fiercely partisan battle in Salt Lake City. Anderson, who has served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union, took positions against gun control, for a woman's choice in the abortion is only theofficial version. The mayor's race in Utah’s capitalcity traditionally is Thatis why 1999 promisesto be a re- peat of 1991. Threepoliticians, all Democrats with credentials in their profes- sional life and in public service, have UtahState Prison, and fighting for years debateand forgay rights that didn’t play well in the conservative pockets of committed to the mayor’s race so far. Sandy, Cottonwood Heights, West and constituency. And that doesn’t count the incumbent, Deedee Corradini, who has not said if she will run for a third term. She alsois a South Jordan, and the Olympus Hills area in the congressional race. But Salt Lake City voters have demonstrated a desire for some gun control. A lesbian has wona legislative seat from a They will divide, essentially, the same Scott Matheson. Jones has morethana decadeof expe- rience in the Legislature, where he has been an advocate of child-protection is- sues, including expanded day-care opportunities for working mothersandleg- islation specifically aimedat protecting unsuspecting children from the negli. gentstorage ofloaded firearms PAUL ROLLY © 1998, TheSalt Lake Tribune hurt him in the congressional race against Republican Merrill Cook two yearsago. But Salt Lake City properis a different story. With different demographics,it is one of the few areasin the state whereit actually is an advantage to be a so-called liberal. Of all the candidates in the mayor's race, Anderson can say he has been the the mostactive in civil-rights battles in Utah, representing a West High School student whoclaimed herrights were vio- foothills above Sandy. Bradleyalso served as director of the Utah Energy Office under the late Gov The three Democrats already in the race are attorney Ross C. Anderson, formerSalt Lake County Commissioner Jim Bradley and House Minority Leader Dave Jones. They all bring certain strengthsto the table. Anderson is a passionate battler for the disadvantaged and downtrodden with the label of liberal. That moniker one viable electiveoffice. True, it's a nonpartisan race. But that ocratic wannabe officeholders and only THE ROLLY REPORT Democrat who has wonin the past because of herability to draw voters from worthiness as a public officeholder, the only place to go is the mayor's race. The mathis not good: numerous Dem- He has servedas state chairman of the Democratic Party and has run several Salt LakeCity district and close to half the members of the city council would love to have city ordinance protecting private businesses. He developed a pro- gram to put at-risk teens in work/educa- tion programsthat was adoptedbySalt Those typesof issues, which Cook was Lake County But this race already hasa ringof deja race, won't be issues in the mayor's contest because Bradley and Jones have vu. Jones, along with fellow Democrats Mike Zuhl and Corradini, ran for mayor in 1991. Jones and Zuhl split the same gays from discrimination. able to exploitin the 1996 congressional shown their viewsare similar to Ander- constituency of liberal Democratic Republican, s ys he is still considering a run at the mayor’ ’s seat, but he will not make a final de n until after the first of the year. Buhier, whosurprisingly lost his state Senate seat in the November election, sayshewill not run for mayor. Neither will Zuhl, whodesperately wanted to run but in the end decided that, with four other Democrats in therace, his chances of winning wereslight, to say the least. Corradini’s purchaseof what has been said to be at least a $400,000 house on the upper Avenueshas led to speculation shewill not run for a third term. Sheis coming off a second scandal to plague her duringher tenure as mayor because of the revelations that she successfully sought more than wealthy $200,000 in gifts from “friends,” some of whom did business directly with the city At thetime, Corradini presented herself as having great financial need be- Corradini put together a coalition of thinkers, mostly on the city’s east side cause of her requirementto settle the Corradini showed some grit a few years ago whenshetried to take on Gov. Mike Leavitt and the Utah Legislature on the gun-control issue, but she careful- business interests, westside voters who believed her election would mean their tors of the company for which she was a son's. ly avoided a public stand on the gay- rights issue, first when the city council passed an ordinancespecifically protecting homosexuals, and again when the city council repealed that ordinance. Bradley can say heis the only one of the three announced candidates with administrative experience in a public office. As a Salt Lake County commission- er for four years, he wasinstrumentalin the expansion of the Salt Palace and enhancement of fine arts facilities in Salt Lake City. He endeared himself to environmentalists when he became the lone vote on the commission against expansion of the Family Center at Fort Union and a residential development in the neighborhoods would no longer be ignored by City Hall, and voters attracted to her becauseshe is a woman A fourth candidate, Daye Buhler emerged from the primary with Corradini because he was the only Republican in the race. Then Corradini defeated Buhler in the final election because in Salt Lake City a Democratwill usually beat a Republican head-to-head. NoRepublican has announced as yet remnants of her first scandal, the Bonne ville Pacific bankruptcyin which inves- founder lost tensof millions of dollars. ‘To beable to purchase such a luxury home so soon after pleading poverty would most certainly comeupin the next campaign If Corradini runs again, she will be without key allies she has enjoyedin the past. Ed Mayne, president of the Utah AFL-CIO. says hefelt betrayed by Corradini after the gift scandal eme Mayne gaveher money, but he says for the forthcoming race. But Salt Lake was misled about what the funds were for. Steve Booth, president of the local voiceis in therace. Jolley has implied he wants to make sure a conservative sents UTAbus drivers, says his union no that if he cannot find another Republican to run, he may. City Councilman Keith Christensen, a her support for former UTA boss John Pingree, who hada stormyrelationship City Council ChairmanBryceJolley says Amalgamated Transit Unionthat repre longerwill support Corradini becauseof with the union. A Clinton Trial Might Make Some Senators Swoon, But Not Average Americans BY ROBERTRENO how abouta 2,000-point drop in the Dow ‘DAY I guess where you stand in the impeachment debate depends on what it’s worth to you to get even with President Clinton for winning twoelections. Or, as the moralists might put it, it's all according to how much you'rewilling to fork out to provethe nation thoroughly disapproves of a president doing and concealing the sort of goatish things in his office that Henry Hyde did shortly beforehefirst ran foroffice. Costing out impeachment is hard to do, but the $40 million and five years Kenneth Starr spent getting us this far could be the short endof it. Let’s see, Jones industrial average as the Senate closes down to discuss dress stains, body parts and oral sex? The risk may be exaggerated, but the Dow hasfallen as badly for less reason. President Eisenhow- er’s stomachaches cometo mind. Mostof us would say “be our guest” to anybody who wants to stake their 401(k) balance on the imperative of chastising the presi- dent. And, of course, there’s the legislative agenda, which includes HMO reform, saving Social Security, campaign finance reform and — dear to the heart of the financial sector — a bill to permit the securities, banking and insuranceindustries to go on a merger orgy. I suppose the Senate could find some time for lim- ited regular business, butif everything gets end-loaded, we could see a wild, session-ending pork feast that would make this year’s last-minute giveaway stam- pede seem a cheapprice for getting Congress out of town. Still, it’s hard to put a price tag on impeachment, so maybe we should consider the sheer national embarrassment of a Senate trial in which genitalia would be constantly mentioned. We've already seen the embarrassment caused Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., the House Judiciary Committee’s most Boy Scout-like member, who, when hehad to say the word, mispronounced it jen-a-TEEL-ya, per. haps because he'd never before uttered it out loud In a memorable speech, Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., tried to horrify the committee with the thought that Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky would sit as witnesses in the well of the Senate. Wexler’s America-as Deep-Throat-Filmed-in-Fredonia sce nario was scary but, I suspect, overblown, My authority on this is about as main- stream as you can get: It is the great loyal, Ann Landers-reading American public,and I say theycan handle it. 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