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Show She Salt Lake Tribune SUNDAY, November 10, 2002 TheSaltLakeTribune UTAH ONLINE Interactive Survey S on lan has accompanied Sue and/or me to the voting booth since he | wasn’t the onlySalt Lake County voter torqued. Participation here was Gatewayneeds an anchor. I mostly stayed with incumbents, no matter their political stripe. Specifically, I chose three of us will headfor the neighborhood el. ementary school to beplayers in what is for public more ways than with subpoenas,and me democracy’s crown jewel. casting a covetouseyeat higheroffice. Why | singled out those two bipartisan votes is that I parted companywith The Salt Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who seems to understand that law enforcementofficers serve the Tuesday probablywasthelast timethe Dave Yocom,a rare,level-headed D.A. not At thenext general election, lan will be a month shy offull-fledged, card-carryingciti zenship. Moretothepoint, 17-year-olds do Lake Tribune'sfirst political endorsements not view sharing a voting booth as cool. in 30 years. Since I did notparticipate in those editorial selections, felt free to trump the recommendations. (Actually, 80 percent of my votes would havepleased ourfine edi- Thingsevolve. I did notice Tut no longer audiblysucks in his votefor a Republican. | have never voted a straight ticket, mybi partisan tendencies being displayed considerably torial writers.) last week when! punchedout the chads the state average, and redistricting had lot to dowithit. ofvoters 73 percentofthe time. On the 11 controversial contests on which The Tribune weighed in, the batting average was .560. Valley Research, The Tribune’s independent pollster, did not miss a winneror loser on its campaign-ending surveylast Sunday, but victory margins wereoff in twocases. Valley predicted a stronger Matheson showing in the 2nd Congressional District than was thecase, although challenger John Swallow's campaign gathered considerable steam andthe bulk of the undecidedsin the final days. Matheson ended upwith an unofficial victory of just under1 percent. That Matheson-Swallow poll underscores why oneought to read thefineprint before pouring concrete oversurveyresults. A week out, our polling had Democrat Matheson with a 10-pointlead and 16 percent here was considerablyhigherthanthe state average, andredistricting hadalot to do withit. Intheinterestofdisclosure,| voted for poll carried a marginoferrorofplus or minus4.7 percentage points. Add 4.7 points to Swallow'sscore, subtract 4.7 from Matheson and you have Matheson winning by less than a percentagepoint. Soundfamiliar? Elsewhere, Valley Research's figures didn’t need that sort of rubdown. They had ist Congressional District Republican Rob Bishop up by18 points and he earned a 24- the half-dozen Utahns whomEnvirocare has unlimited weaponsinspections and that will triggera U.S.attack. Ee No,President Bushis spoiling for a fight and will find some mated it would be 18. And the forecast was excuse to invadeIraq. for Chris Cannonto walk awaywith the rd Congressional District by a 41-point margin. © ves,with the United Nations behind the inspections, Saddam has to give in. 6 Uncertain. ‘That was three points high ofthe votecast. if Randy Horiuchi was re-elected to the Salt Lake County Council. (OK, OK. “Hooch” mayhave more conflicts of interest than an armsdealerin the Balkans, but how can you notlike him.) New Comics: “Flo & Friends,” a clever comicabout aging with humor, is replacing the somewhatworn out“9 to5” panelthat currently is on the mutual funds page Tuestion.Is there a betterlocation to place a comic on retirement? by noon Friday LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Q- I cast a ballot Tuesday primarily because... wishto exercise. Accompanyingtoday’s Salt Substitute page are two newstrips. Thefirst, “Shrubbery,” bypolitical cartoonist Signe Wilkerson, is a spoof on the current political scene. Theotheris “Bachelor Party.” Thepair, on Page D15, appear to be a perfectfit for Salt Substitute. 10% -! want to help elect certain candidates. 10% —| wantto help remove certain candidates. 5% — Myvote may make a difference. 2% — It's fun andexciting. 2% —|t's just a habit. Ex nyingstory, tend to vote Republican). The “VOTE on wwwsltrib.com 23% - It is a citizen's duty to vote. 37% — Votingis a privilege that | day through Saturdayin the Business sec- undecided (which, we noted in the accompa- Initiative 1. I wasa bit miffed at being one of o/ Will the UN. Resolution Keep the US. from Invading Iraq’ Oo No, Saddam won't allow point victory.Initiative 1 was predicted to go down by 35 points. The actual margin of defeat was 36 points. Amendment 6’s margin of defeat was 15 points; The Tribune poll esti- It was an exciting 24 hours for me — even Forthose scoring at home, The Tribune’s 15 endorsements madesense to the majority seven Democrats, four Republican: party challengerandaLibertarian. Two of my votes, | confess, were purely reactive. Still growling over Republicanlegislative attempts to removefrom myconsideration would-beorsitting officeholders simply because they happen to be Democrats, a gerrymandering that went well beyondthe normal partisd ale, | automatically sent votes to Jim MathesonandPatrice t, primary congressiona \d state Senate targets of that divisive attempt to disenfranchise urbanareas. As it turnedout, | wasn’t the onlySalt Lake Countyvoter torqued. Participation higher than not placed on retainer. AndI said of course to the Children’s Museum bond.Besides, That was six general elections ago now, Standing 3inchestaller than his father, this live civics lesson is producing scowls from vigilant election judges. 11% —| did not vote. (internet polls are unscientific and unrepresentative ‘of anyone than the actual respondents.) Editor INTERNATIONALSWEE / THE AMERICAS Compiled by ROGER MORTON @ Argentina: BAS TacHyoROWOS * Athans. GREECE Compiled by BRIAN MAC INTYRE President Eduardo Du @ Senegal: The country’s prime min- halde tapped a Cabinetofficial Friday to replace Argentina's high-profile ister picked a new Cabinet Thursday, completing a purge linked to a disastrousferry accidentandthe country’s ambassador to Washington. Officials said deputy Cabinet chief Eduardo economicwoes. President Abdoulaye Amadeo wouldtake over thecoveted Wade's hand-picked prime minister andclose aide, Idrissa Seck, named a 31-memberCabinet dominated by members of Wade'sparty. Seck took office after Wadefired the entire Cabinet on Tuesday. The firings came just hours before the release ofa government-commissioned inquiry into the Sept. 26 sinking of the staterun MSJoola ferry, which killed at diplomaticpost from Diego Guelar as part of abid to revive Argentina’s relations with theinternationalfinan: cial community. Argentinais in the throesofa four-year recession,a 72 percent devaluationof the currency andproblems with a default on large partsof its $141 billion public debt. @ Venezuela: Opponents andsupporters of President Hugo Chavez least1,200 people. emergedfrom talks aimedat easing a growing poli risis acknowledg. ing that an agreement onearly ballot- ing wasstill faroff. “Weare @ Belgium:Corruption in some countries hoping to join the European Unionhasflourished since thefall of communism,but the EU's own anticorruptionpoliciesare ill-suited to tackle such problems, a watchdog con. vinceda process of dialogue requires time,” Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel saidFridayafter five-hour meeting with oppositionleaders and Cesar Gaviria, secretary-general of the Organization of AmericanStates. @ Colombia: Inascathingreport, a humanrights group accused Colom bia’s attorney agencysays. In a report presented THe HISACK Wednesday, the Open Society Institute’s EU Accession Monitoring Program saidit was increasingly likely that countries with persistent andserious corruption would be admitted toa European Union unable to combat such problems even amongits current members. won MORNING HERALD AUSTRALIA generalofinterfering with investigations of abuses by members ofthe military andanout law paramilitary group. Human Rights Watch chargedthat several high-profil cause Luis prio hasfailed to support in somecasesevenfired prosecutors. “It's not that there: sults are weak 's that they don't exist,” Jose Miguel Vivanco, said Fri day. Osoriorejected the charges. W Nigeria: The nation’s Supreme Court has scrapped limits on the numberofpolitical parties, opening the wayfor dozensofgroups hoping to battle President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ruling party in 2003 elections. In the unanimous judgmentFriday,the court found that the Independent @ Brazil: President-elect Luiz Inacio Lulada Silvacalled on Braziliansto limit the numberof parties in presidential andlegislative elections based on geographic, demographic and othercriteria. social pact” to spur devel dei Latin landslide winnerofBrazil's Oct. 27 election, met Thursday with about 100business, financeandlaborlead. ers in Sao Paulo to hammerout a con § i" eo vinced that Brazil's problem: more political than economic,” Silva said after the meeting. His first com mitment, hesaid, is to end hungerin Brazil, @ British Virgin Islands: Officials have flipped the switch on the British Caribbeanterritory'sfirst traffic sig: nals, producing confusion among some drivers who stopped ongreen. ‘The government unveiledthesix trafficlights at one of the bus} intersections in the capital, Road Town. ‘The governmentspent $300,000 for the lightsat theintersection where more than100accidents occurred in thelast 18 months. Koger Morton has reported from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Cana: E-mail at rmorton@sltrib.com. Electoral Commission had noright to @ Singapore: A Singapore opposition leader wasreleased from prison ASIA / PACIFIC chitectural styes. But nearly all the into space,theofficial Xinhua News Agency reported Nov. 3. Government aerospace official Hu Hongfu said the launch of the Shenzhou —or divine vessel — will take place laterthis year. The three Shenzhoucapsulesalready launched are technically capable of carrying a crew. China would houses were destroyed during World WarII bombingraids. son into space on its own. Saturdayafter serving five weeks for holding anillegal rally, and he immediately vowedto continuehisbattle for morefree speechin thecity-state. ‘The convictions of Chee Soon Juan, headof the Singapore Democratic Party, wereover a rally his party stagedon presidential palace grounds onMay 1, Singapore's Labor Day. Au- thorities had denied the party's appli cation fortherally. @ Japan: Empress Michiko refused Fridaytointerfere in the demolition of her childhood home,despite public calls to preserve whatis one of Tokyo's rare architectural heirlooms. Shingo Haketaof the Imperial Household Agencyinterpreted her reluctance as stemming from her deceased parents’ wish that she maintain a clear distinction between her former familylife and herlife in the imperial family. The 68-year-old empress in 1959 becamethe first commoner to marry into Japan’s imperial family. The three-story wooden house was one of manybuilt in the early 1900s Compiled by RICHARD STREEBY with mixed English and Japanese ar- China: Armytroops moved intoa Tibetan-inhabited region of western China and arrested five menafter a months-longinvestigation into prayer ceremonies held in honorof the Dalai Lama,an overseas Tibet support group said Thursday. Thereport casts doubt on what had appeared to be signs ofa thaw in relations between China andthe Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader. Thefive men were arrested Oct.18 in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the New York-based International Campaign for Tibet said. @ China:China is preparing to launcha fourth unmanned space capsule Jater this year in what would be its final test before sending a human be the third country able to puta per- Fiji: A military panel on Wednesday convicted 15elite Fijian armysoldiers of mutinyfor theirroles in a deadly shootoutat the country’s main barracks two years ago. The 15 members ofthe elite Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unitface death byfiring squad underFiji military law, though the governmentalfeady has signaled it plansto abolish the death penalty in the armed forces — a movethatis expected to spare their lives. The group took part in the Nov.2, 2000, mutiny, described at their court martial as an attempt to kill the armed forces’ commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.Fightsoldiers died during the revolt. SUBSCRIPTION RATES CIRCULATION NUMBERS By Mail (4-woek period) Carrier Delivery (4-week period) Daily/Sunday (Uta, Ida., Wyo,, Nev.) $25.2) Daily . 4 Be Por same-day missed del) on and tameGhiaeee Group, 143 South Main St. Salt Lake City Utah 0411) Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Salt Lake ‘Tribune at the above address Daily Only (Utah, da, Wyo., Nev.) 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