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Show AA3 OPINION Sunday, January24, 1999 __ TheSalt LakeTribune With Corradini Out, Mayor’s Race Gets Even More Intriguing cratic Party. Reid was part of an effort a fewyears backto start a more conserva- Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini’s recent announcementthatshewill family issues. notseek a third term inundatedthe political landscape with a tidal wave of new a reputation as a protector of the environment andthe integrity of residential neighborhoods. He endeared himself to haveincreased. It would seem that muchofthe current Corradini administration would turn to Reid, whohas been partof the group the ing onthe sacrificial role of Gov. Mike Leavitt’s opponent in 1996. Anderson, a civil rights attorney, proved an able and articulate politician past several years. He would hope to capitalize on the good that the Corradini administration has done while distancing himself from the mayor's personal scandals, such as Bonneville Pacific, Giftgate THE ROLLY REPORT Bradleyleft office four years ago with potential candidates. in the campaign. But somepersonal invasion crimes, such as rape and assault, membersof his Democratic Partybytak- Besides the long-announced candidacies of state legislator Dave Jones, former Salt Lake County Commissioner Jim Bradley and Salt Lake City lawyer Ross “Rocky” Anderson, Corradini’s impending departure has brought to the front the names of Utah League of Cities and in hislosing bid against Merrill Cook for Congressin 1996. Corradini’s front-line appointees: Community and Economic Development Director Stuart Reid and Police Chief Ruben Ortega. All three are non-Mormons wholive on the city’s east side. Assuming geography, religion and party affiliation play a role in the election, Jones, Bradley and Anderson will be dividing the same por- TownsDirector Ken Bullock and two of tion of the pie The geographyfactor providesatleast Thethree have not committed to the mayor’s race, but they all have ex- pressed interest and areallowing their one advantage for Reid, a former elected city council member from the Rose Park area and the only hopeful from the west side. namesto be floated in the hopesof attracting support. Reid seemsto beclosestto an official ‘That area of the city playeda signifi- announcement. He sayshe will form a campaign finance committee soon and decide after that whether to officially enter the race, depending on howthe fundraising efforts go. The three new names changethe face of the election considerably. Jones, Bradley and Anderson unofficially have been in the race for more than a year. Theypossessdifferent strengths, but the three active Democrats share manyof the samefriends and political allies. Jones, the minority leader in the Utah House of Representatives, brings a stronglegislative record to the race, with a heavy concentration on children and and the Olympics briberywoes. PAUL ROLLY © 1999, TheSalt Lake Tribune Ortega seems readyto take Reid on as far as the administration's aceomplish- minority vote, particularly with the Latino community, the largest minority community in the city. But his recent failed efforts to have Salt LakeCityoffi- cers deputized as limited Immigration and Naturalization agents to speed up the process of deportation did not set well with manyLatino groups. Anderson,aswell, will get a portion of cant role in the election of Corradini in the minority vote because ofhis activi- developing an infrastructure and com- been an outspoken advocate for disen- the 1991 and 1995races. She did morein ties as a civil rights attorney. He has munityservices for the west side than franchised elements of the community. any mayor in recent memory. As the mayor's community and economic development director, Reid would no doubt use that to his advantage. But the west side has a sizeable minor- forcement, a profession that has beenhis life for 39 years. But with Corradini’s departure next year, helikelywill be out Reid, whowill use his status as a conser- pleasure of the mayor, and the current field of candidates haveindicated they might goin a newdirection with law en- ity population which seems divided on vative Democrat and a Mormon bishop to further differentiate himself from the rest of the field. Ortegaalso should havea claimon the Ortega says his first love is lawen- of a job. The police chief serves at the forcement. Overall crimein Salt LakeCity is on thedecrease, a statistic Ortega would use ments are concerned,if he and Reid become opponents. “It is mygutfeeling thatit is time for some major changes,” Ortega said in an interviewlast week. “The infrastructure needs more work. We have increasing traffic problems. Andthe neighborhoods are getting too run down. If we don’t do something soon, we face the danger of losing them.” So far, Ortega is the only Republican considering the race. That will give him tive Democratic caucus (somecalled it a Mormon Democratic caucus) to broaden the umbrella of the Democratic Party That created a backlash among many Democratswho were offendedatthe im. plication that they were beyond mainstream thought in Utah. Senate Minority Leader Scott Howell and former House Minority Leader Frank Pignanelli made a conscious effort to promote Reid at that time as an up-and-coming new-age Democrat When Reid gave the opening prayer at the Democratic Legislative Ball a few years ago, Pignanelli and Howell confided that wasbydesign. But Pignanelli and Howell areclose to Jones and have alreadyindicated support for the candidate that wastheir colleague in the Legislature for a decade. That bringsus to the wild card: Bullock. Bullock's interest was promoted by Bill Paulos and Dave Watson, political activists who work for US West. Bullock’s namealso has been spread around the Utah State Legislature the past sev- Commissioner eral days by Rob Jolley, lobbyist of Mel Brown-scandal fame and also a US West insider, at least until recently. Bullock also is tight with US West and is considered a gadfly. He has no strong partyaffiliation and maychallenge Reid for rights to the Mormon vote. He re- supporting Reid’s candidacy, and Salt himself as a sort of maverick member of some advantage, especially sincethe others will be dividing Democratic votes. But Reid believes his conservative views will attract Republicans to his camp. GOP Salt Lake County Brent Overson, for example, is already Lake City Council memberBryceJolley, who was recruiting Republicans, has indicated he would besatisfied with a conservative like Reid in therace. A Reid candidacy also will bring back some painful memories for the Demo- cently has created some publicity for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. A close friend and political ally of Brown, the recently deposed speaker of the House, Bullock has the kindofties that, political insiders say, could help raise campaign funds quickly. Nary a Funny Bone Among Them: AMA Reinforces Reputation as Reactionary and Humorless Monica Lewinskydid to be having “sex.” pathologist who has been editor of the journal for 17 years, may have greased his departureby an earlier editorial suggesting that autopsies becomemore rou- was. According to Albright’s biographer, of practicing doctors who don’t like to be Ann Blackman, wicked girls were the ones whose dating experiences were rat- addressed in the JAMA article. If we could get the hormone-crazed adolescents of America to behaveas responsibly as the president and Lewinsky, we could wipe out the scourge of teen-age pregnancy. But this presupposes we will ever grow up as a nation. Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders tried to or third base. “It wasstrictly taboo, but not unheard servation that masturbation is normal. identin history to be removed for having matriculated in the 1950s, girls understood better than Ken Starr what sex ed by whether a boygottofirst, second be the best wayto find out The doctors pretended to swoonthis month because Lundberg had (gasp) injected the AMA into politics. This is a curious fit of fastidiousness for an orga- prurient fixations. years. In a 1950election memorable for over by independent prosecutors with nization that has wallowedinpolities for First of all, the doctors who run the AMAhave reinforcedits towering reputation as oneof the most humorless and its nastiness, the AMA helped defeat Claude Pepper,then senatorfromFlorida, becausehe favored a national health- reactionary forces in American poli care program. The AMAled the fight gical precision with which they al $ seemto shoot themselves in the foot. The AMAabruptlyfired the highly respected editor of JAMAfor runninga straightforwardarticle titled “Would You Say You Had Sex If 2” Tt reported that 59 percent of college students did not posed the health-care reform program against Medicare. It strenuously op- They also demonstrated the almostsi proposed in President Clinton's fi term. Virtually every major legi health-care reform of the past 50 years has been opposedbythe AMAas“socialized medicine.” But nowthat a majority ofthenation’s consider what President Clinton and doctors have been herded into managed of, to ‘goall the way,” ” Blackmanwrites NEWSDAY care and health maintenance organizations, nowthat they have seen their incomes squeezedandtheir independence usurped bycost accountants in the insur- ance industry, they plead for governRights.” dent. Likewise, no serious dog breeder dent's proposed “Patient's Bill of And don't we all wish them well in their newly discovered social deino- sniffing and muzzle-rubbing to be “sex” “sex.” In the 1950s, Ann Landers, even thenoneof the arbiters of American sex- uality, might have used the now quaint giant pandas to reproduce in captivity because mostof them seemtothink their cages are the Oval Office term “heavy petting” to describe what Indeed, there are grave social issues thereis such a thing as sexuality short of Express Loan Night ZIONS BANK Draper Office no further than Lewinsky and the presi- considers a lot of licking, tail-wagging, cratic enlightenment. Most adults have always understood — Express turnaround on VISA and credit line requests for your business 4:00-7:00 P.M. Medical Association soon runs a piece headlined “Would you say your brood sow‘had sex’ if 2” Most hog farmers mentintervention and supportthe presi- Una) nee MeeeLO January 27,1999 All livestock breeders will understand the point. I wouldn't be surprised if the journal of the American Veterinary would answer, naturally, that she'd be sold at market for pork chopsif she went BD auth Nort:ee aeerr SutLoeyou can do Pye — ley College, where Madeleine Albright remindedthat whentheir patients croak, it maybetheir fault and an autopsy may whether we are a grown-up nation capable of understanding human sexuality as more than something to be scrawled by schoolboys on bathroom walls, cackled about in Hustler magazine or drooled Zions Bank thesheltered Methodist halls of Welles- tine. This quite naturally infuriated a lot issues raised here that have to do with % * ROBERT RENO Dr. George Lundberg, a distinguished “sex'’ with a woman who never oncegot him in the sack When we have all finished giggling over these fine points, there are serious i, the president and Lewinskydid. Even in The Journal of the American Medical pointing out that if he is convicted by the Senate, Bill Clinton will bethefirst pres- Association has done us the favor of Womens "Financial Gromip for the purposeof producing AKCchampions. Zookeepers go nuts trying to get get us to, and look whatit got her. She got fired by Clinton for making the obStill, some of us can dream of a day when we can unselfconsciously inform children about sex, warn them, protect them, and then teach them that private consensual sex is not something you: @ Doon the front lawn. ‘ak aboutincessantly @ Make the subject of grand jury inquiries or political witch hunts. 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