Show : Saturday March 23 2002 A4 The Herald Journal Our view i V tuition measure far from fair " i i Non-reside- nt i -- S ome ideas just look better on paper than they do in reality — like full-boleisure suits menthol cigarettes or the Fox Television Series ‘Temptation I dy Island" When looking at ways to trim the budget this year the legislators pitched House Bill 331 which if signed by Gov Leav- itt will require all Utah students to have 60 credit hours instead of 30 before they ' can be considered residents For all intents and purposes that students will means have to live here for two years instead of one before they quali- tuition fy for ' The bill would raise an additional $5 million in revenues While appearing to raise money it could do just the opposite and come as a crushing non-reside- out-of-sta- in-sta- nt Tn cumiM acmes nostros in-st- ate cash-strapp- te - blowtdUSU: ed Mitt ’s By Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe tasks you take on both increase substantially something has to give” Before we file this under political sports history let’s go to the videotape Swift was 23 when she first ran for office She was pregnant when she Was chosen to run for lieutenant governor as the young female sharp half of a Republican team When the governor left to become ambassador to Canada — don’t ask — she was pregnant again with twins To the outrage of Dr Laura and tiie obsession of media everywhere the first female governor of Massachusetts was also the first pregnant governor in the country and Dear Lofd the first governor ever to deliver w ell here’s a new variation on the old fairy tale The knight' on the white charger comes galloping into town on a rescue mission And His fust act is to knock the damsel in distress out of his way ’ percent of those who enrolled at USU this fall came from out of state What little would be raised by the extra tuition would surely be offset by the exodus of students who Thirty-si- x Of course our hero Mitt Romney isn’t ' really an equestrian cash-strapp- ed That’s a sum- - mer sport Maybe it’s more accurate to say that tiie man who salvaged the Olympics came back to Massachusetts politics on a luge The only options acting Gov Jane Swift had were to get out of his way of get knocked down In truth Swift is more dame than damsel in distress At the famously raucous St Patrick’s Day political breakfast Swift quipped mat Romney wasn’t sure he was going to run for governor because of the Massachusetts drought: His handlers were concerned that there wouldn’t be ' enough water for him to walk on” But by Tuesday she bowed to the and Romney juggernaut or luge-nathe out race of Admitting dropped her disadvantage in this event Swift said that she couldn’t be governor candidate in tiie mother Republican primary agaihst the man with all Wheaties appeal” “Something had to give” said Swift I am sure there isn’t a working parent in America that hasn’t faced it that when the demands of the two Commentary tasty recipe for Washington leak soup ' issue in America since that first mushroom cloud over Hiroshima ' Supporting the rise of tactical nuclear weapons hurt Sen Barry Goldwater in the presidential election of 1964 Ship of State it has been Gen Colin Powell wrote in his autosaid is the only kind of ship that leaks mainly from the top biography that as a corps comman- der in Germany in 1986 he objected Presidents hate unauthorized leaks ' to plans to use nuclear artillery to which they regard as limiting their stem a Soviet invasion saying that freedotn of action President Nixon ' started on his road to ruin risk Soviet retaliation and would by possible escalation to an employing a crew of “plumbers” to nuclear war hunt down leaks by surveillance and break-in- s “We would be mossing a threshPresident Reagan who ' old” Mr Powell said said he was “up to my keister” in I The Bush administration was Of the leaks talked Clin-to- n for leakers President 'guillotine clearly upset by the leak of the nuclear' pbsture statement Defense circulated a memo complaining '' of being distressed about leaks The ' Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that' ' ' whoever leaked it “violated federal memo leaked of course criminal law” President Bush 'Three times recently the Bush administration has been bedeviled by responded to a question at his news ' national security leaks One was conference on March 13 by saying “I presume you are referring to the about the “shadow goyem-jmenthe 9QHlay rotation of " nuclear review that was recently in the press” He proceeded to defend officials to secret locations to ensure continuity of government in case ofa tiie need for smaller nuclear weapons To the editor: tp deter an attack on the United ' catastrophic attack on Washington Thisletter is in reference to Laren States That generated a confused debate Allred’s letter of Why does One can only speculate of course about the presidential succession and ' the e have the county attorney where Congress fits into the picture about who leaks national security accusahis of having unprovCn secrets and why Forsome it must Next someone leaked the Penta- ' tions printed in the paper yet when a be a form of g to gon’s plan to create an Office of letter is sent questioning his profes- which lipset some administration plan For Strategic Influence sionalism it is censored and part of it others simply a way of getting kicks could rerort misinformation” deleted? the influence from one can That of exert died quickly campaigns ' I understand that Mr Wyatt is not from behind the scenes Congress is exposure the one on trial and so tiie Herald known be But one to the NucleafTosture Now comes very porous are settled omitted” certain suggesJournal or another leak a Review suggesting the possible use way tions” in Mr Allred’s letter But the governmental process of of nonnu-nuclear part weapons against it1' cleat countries to preempt the use of does The Herald Journal show tiie Daniel Schorr tea senior news analyst other weappnsof mass: destruction same consideration to the defendant ' ' at Natiooal Public Radto ' “Nukes” have been a neuralgic in this case- whd according to our By Daniel Schorr For The Christian Science Monitor X ut all-o- ut fund-rais- ’ : half-serious-ly ' -- : v b t i : ch te A : t wouldn’t be able to afford the pricetag of a Utah education The other substantial part of HB33 1 is that it left no grandfather clause which could have protected students already enrolled People would scream “foul” if a private business employed a policy like the one being proposed Students came to Utah schools with the understanding that after 30 credit hours they would qualtuition They fac- ify for tored that jn as part of their decision to come to Utah Now because the legislature has come up they have decided to help balance budgets on the backs of those least likely to afford it — the students If we would not allow a pri- vate business to employ tactics like this why do we allow our elected officials to do it? We encourage Gov Leavitt not to sign this bill We also expect that legislators can find better ways to generate revenue than trying to squeeze money students from - ' i er twins: swift charge standard here? Is there a different sense of whether a “he” and a “she” can have it all7 When Swift was trying to figure out if she could run the primary race she said her family hours were As for Romnfey? His wife Ann in remission from multiple sclerosis openly expressed her reluctance to leave Utah where she’s been healthy Then she demurred “I’m behind him always! I never want to slow him down” Need I say more? But the other double standard is in checkbook politics Swift comes from a working-clafamily Romney is a venture capitalist His “hard times” came during his early years of marriage when they had to dip into capital to get by He spent $7 million of his own in a Senate race against Ted Kennedy in 1994 Swift faced a tough struggle to raise money Romney was a money magnet for others with a full checkbook of his own So much for the primary He hasn’t gotten the gold yet Republicans have won foe governor’s office in this Democratic state in the last decade only by wooing the moderate women’s vote Romney’s stands don’t sound moderate to this woman Indeed his “stand” on abortion looks like a snowboarding trip down tiie halfpipe Even those who were lukewarm about Swift’s tenure may take offense at the sense of entitlement of the man who came bome to be coronated casually wiping out the first woman governor on his way Romney may yet turn out to be die Michelle Kwan of politics As for Jane Swift her departure was a class act She’s still got game ss - We keep telling women to run for office while they’re young But she became a role model and a cautionary tale on whether women could do ' it “all” if “all” meant balancing work and family and politics In Swift’s case “all” was not a full cup it was Niagara Falls Family and work meant three preschool children a three-hocommute home in a state with no governor’s mansion and governing as a Republican with a Democratic Legislature Her year in offfice made the giant slalom course at Park City look smooth She rnaneuvered some moguls and badly wounded herself on others After Romney hinted that he’d deign to enter die contest her pollihg numbers among Republicans crashed Meanwhile Romney after three years and a wildly successful event in Utah had more endorsements than Derek Parra All he had to do to win tiie Republican nomination was to step onto die platform Banner” please Is there a double ur ‘ Star-spangl- Yourviow ' What makes t” so-call-ed i prosecutor special? 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