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Show Tuesday, August 28, 2007 DAILY HERALD AS EDITORIAL BOARD Craig Dennis. President A Publisher ' Randy Wright, ExecutiveEdltor GUEST OPINION Dan K. Thomasson pathetic effort to unseat Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. efore any one get s Only the Watergate scandal excited about Demo breathed new life in the Democratic presidential. crats presidential hopes in 1976 prospects next year, ' and that just narrowly. By 1980, a perusal of modem the party had returned to its old day political history ways with Sen. Edward Kennedy should amply remind one of the openly seeking the nomination and the machinery in such disar-- a fallacy of overconfidence about party that is utterly without a ray that Jimmy Carters most of the time, even dency was over after one term, when Republicans art carrying Twelve years later Bill Clinton the burden of a war and an un- pulled the party back together popular lame duck president. only to see it stumble in 2000 Once again it seems appropriate when his vice president, Albert to quote humorist Will Rogers Gore, pretty much cut him out of still valid assessment:.! dont the campaign, shunned his advice and lost the electoral vote. While belong to any organized political Florida became the battleground party. Im a Democrat." That fact was demonstrated for this historic debacle, Gore clearly when the Democratic Na- - only needed to have won his home .' tional Committee took the Florida state, Tennessee, to win. Now the stage seems set for chapter erf the party to the wood-shed for violating the DNCs edict more proof of Rogers asser-thno voting Jn the presidential tion with an array of candidates , nomination sweepstakes with hacking away at each other in the exception of the Iowa caucus .'.more than a dozen debates and. and the New Hampshire primary the DNCs probably unenforce-shal-l take place before next Feb. able efforts to bring about order 5. The DNC would deny the fourth in a party that has seldom had it. By the time the convention takes largest state its delegates to the national convention next summer place, the nominee will have been unless it reverses its recent deri-- .. chosen and it will be that person : sion to hold its primary Jan. 29, a who will exert huge influence process that might take some do-- over What delegates will be seated mg because the states legislature, at the Denver convention. It is which sets the dates, is controlled hard to imagine that the Florida by Republicans. The committee delegation will not be included. has given them 30 days to get the ln contrast, a handful of Re- jobdone. publican hopefuls stuck with an The drastic step that could unpopular war and a divisive alienate one of the nation's more, president have at least held off important voting blocks Is a committing fratricide in their debates, preferring to attack the desperate move to bring some national party control and disci- Democrats. Wasn't it Ronald Rea-plibads into a primary system gan who initiated the 11th com whose wheels are about to come mandment: Thou shall not speak off as anger among large state . ill of fellow Republicans? Most of affiliates grows over the cortinu- - the time that philosophy works, , ing outsized influence of twQrela- - denying the other party a blue-- , tively minor players, Iowa and print for defeating the eventual New Hampshire. The larger states nominee, are moving rapidly and somewhat As far as the selection process.' is concerned, jt obviously is in chaotically to exert their own force in the selection process by need of serious rehabilitation, : : drastically revising their primary The Iowa caucus important dates. only since Carter's first nornina- One need only go back to 1968 and the New Hampshire lion and 1972 to understand what can ; primary have been elevated too ' happen to a party that tries to high for far too long, leaving states like Florida, California, .. please everyone and succeeds in Michigan and New York out of pleasing no one. The Democratic national convention in 68 was go the process. Both parties need to rancorous over the Vietnam War findsomeway of including those states with the largest number of . tint, as one sage pundit reported, voters or revise the system into .. the nominee, Vice President Hu-bert Humphrey, could have done a regional affair. It would also cut down on the field, eliminating better in bankruptcy court. Four McGovsome of the less serious candi--. later Sea George years ems Democratic nomination was ' dates. That would be a welcome even more worthless as the party ... relief. , disintegrated into squabbling one-issfactions in a convention I Dan K. Thomassonu former. editor of the Scripps Howard ... that turned off more voters than Newsservice. Kansas Republican AlfLandons . presi-compa- . . , : . . at . . ne : ... : . : ' LETTERS Investment in real estate by Lehi Gty not essential This poll tells me the Daily Herald is. provide any. No one in the Utah County Assessors Office was able to explain supporting snakes, mice, rats and the Sutherlands; otherwise they wouldnt .. the system for property valuation and Once again. Councilman Mark John- - poll the whole state knowing the people wly it would do what it did. This lack son is misleading and misinforming the . outside of Mapleton would rather have, of accountability in government taxa-tio- n is alarming. public. In the August 16 Lehi Free Press the snakes next door to me, than have I spoke with the Utah County.; them as their neighbors. article, Restore, renovate or obliter; I Richard Howell, ate, he said, If the city were not to . Attorney's Office, I was also told that. ': take this route, private owners could do ' Mapleton,, while the county will make occasional mistakes in property taxation, the what they want with Main Street bush... .7 ness property. But through the bidding The method is proven and fair. I was still in are people power process, the city can control what it grateful for a process that would hear . ' wants a land.-in its is This with my appeal. But what about our elderly developer to do regardsto the editorial Citizens? What about .. Lets darify his terminology. This Misguided in California. The follow-parent families thai cannot afford route means the city invests taxpayer ing statements are not true: ... the states, not the people, eject the to attend a hearing? Is a 100 percent dollars in nonessential reel estate, tax increase proven and fair for them? president." thereby making the city the devd-ope- r. Americas founders wisely decided Contrary to what he says, the :. Maybe county assessor Poulson can to make presidential elections winner- - answer these questions. No one else in' city can (and already does through e on a basis "v his office could. zoning) control private property. So the take-al" Bob Evans, Just as the Constitution was not satiscity does not new! to farce taxpayers to fied by the legislatures of the thirteen, Provo invest in nonessential real estate to accomplish what he says the city wants to states, but by delegates chosen in a accomplish on Main Street. Israel not vying to become special election by the people of each Instead, the city should create an state, the president is not to be elected .' state in tne union 7 next overlay zone on Main Street to regulate by the legislatures of the states but by electors,. Israel doesn't need the United States the nature of new private development '.The electors are to be chosen by the ; to protect it, but we will ensure its right there., d I Gordon Miner, people for the special purpose. They are to exist as a nation which is also ' Lehi to enter upon the task free from any , .... by the United Nat ions. Unlike the sinister bias." They ore to be indepengrowing number of isolationist pacifists in this country, Israel anther citizenry dent in their voting. They are to meet Who's being lead more; on the same day. Politicians have taken will fight to the death to preserve their the the bull or public? from the people their fight todirect by way of life and right to exist in the world. In the process of teaching any farm electing their electors. We must take . back this right. animal to lead, that animal first resists .. Israel has also vowed that they Hoanother never Warren would or fights the rope until learning to comHardy, experience f Provo locaust. The Arab nations would be ply with its force, , ' foolish to Underestimate Israel's Channel 13 recently portrayed a man ability , bull an untrained to stand against them. After all.they lead to The use of a surname is attempting had excellent teachers the butchers, from one pasture to another. The bull dissolved with the marriage of Hitler. Israel wouldn't hesitate to use resisted the rope, and in doing so fell In todays society a large number of tactical nuclear bombs either. and was drug a few feet. ' The reason The reporters emotional irrational people dont have mass marriages end up in divorce. Although I of in incident The find notices marches stated about the Iraq War is because legal newspapers coverage of the bull was trying to keep up. It wasn't. divorcing parties to be sad and tragic, I it was sanctioned by Congress. Viet-- . realize that, under some circumstances, nam wasn't, it was a conflict, not a She said, We don't know what hap- a dissolution of a marriage is approprisanctioned war. Our involvement was pened to the bull. I'm sure she could the direct result of our membership in 7 have found out if she wanted to. ..: ate, each side dividing up and starting SEATO and the French were at a staleIf the TV station is consumed in dis- 'anew!' I am after years there. how astonished mate .. real animal ;. However, might many cussing cruelty, they film the resuks of wolf notable women, including Priscilla Pres- ' By the way, the next mein line to when in our forests, or conduct an interview ley, Bo Derek and the late Anna Nicole , be our 51st state is Puerto Rico " with the woman who observed a bear Smith, continue to use a divorced hus, theyre ready, I Vincent Jack, band's surname long after the divorce in the process of ripping a living deer ' American Fork and usually to great financial advarn to shreds. The PETA mentality is consumed tage. That simply isn't proper. The marwith a desperate proclamation of riage is what gave them the right to use would force us all to become the Surname. After the dissolution, that How right should be severed and the female vegans and prohibit cattlemen from should revert back to using her maiden roping, branding, or leading livestock. letters to surname. Brigham Young once stated the dhletterstp heraldextra.com should men be Mormon maxim of Minding one's own Perhaps given royal5 Fax to continues to use his ties if the business. Its past time to reintroduce surname after the marriage ends, I apthe idea. Mail fo P.O. Box 717, t Frank Gardiner, plaud women, such as Marie Osmond, Provo, UT 84603. n Provo who know due bounds and do quite " Letters must include the I ' name. own well using their maiden authors full name, address and I James A. Marples, Herald poll sticking others' daytime phone number. Provo noses in Mapletotvs affairs I We prefer shorter letters, 100 to 200 words. Letters The Daily Herald was out of bounds Lack of accountability in a may be edited for length. when they polled all of their readers fair system and . 'proven in farm Maple-tonthe snake Writers are encouraged to I concerning . I received my property valuation 'no-- , This polling should have been reinclude their occupation and ' other personal information. stricted to the citizens of Mapleton and tice last month. Like many North Provo inshowed a immediate mine the residents, significant neighborhood. I Because of the volume of let-- .. " It is none of the rest of the state's crease nearjy 100 percent. I appealed ters, we cannot acknowledge business what Mapleton does or does to the Board of Equalization and was . unpublished letters. not do. feople in Hyrum, North Salt required to provide documentation and I Letters become the property Lake, Logan and Eagle Mountain comps to back up my claim. of the Daily Herald. I should not have any input ki Mapleton's When asked to view the countys affairs. documentation, they were unable to . . v.' . . v . . . ; single- e, . . state-by-stat- T . . . . . . . . ' sane-tione- . . : ' . - . . . : MEDIA VOICES : ously had private health insur- ance wait a full year without coverage before enrolling in the State Children's Health Insur- . al ance Program, The debate is a president Bush and congres-sioncomplicated me, since offering Democrats are bat-- I coverage for children in higher-earnitling over how high up the families risks displacing Dome scale states should be existing private insurance. But owed to go in offering health for SCHIP the administrations surance to poor children under income cap is too strict, given known e decade-ol- d program variations in the cost of living SCHIP. Now, the administra-- n the and the price of health insurance.. has moved to Its linked coverage target is too dative debate and, in effert, few states even ; hard to reach a fiat administrative ipose by nit of 250 percent of the federal come dose. A year is too long a time for a child to go uninsured. nrerty level about $43,000 for a And the administrations way mily of three. of implementing a major policy States were told this month al-shtft that would affect at least 19 be will no at they longer and the District of Columstates wed to enroll children whose is too bia highhanded. 250 above percent milies earn Certainly, insurance efforts the poverty level unless they as the ought to concentrate in prove that they have manmeasures SCHIP that of competing ;ed to cover 95 percent have passed the House and Senlildren below 200 percent of e poverty level and unless they ate do on covering children in families with the lowest incomes. quire that children who previ- From The Washington Post, Aug. 27,2007 ' . ng : short-circu- it . : . D00NESBURY . . to comment . ex-wi- . 344-298- ' . . . . . MALLARD FILLMORE Garry Trudeau Bruce Tinsley ai lotfcfcHyouifcnL , IP wiwUvOT COMMON QOlMfi-IZ- ) iRyooAnHe 1H6 UMtST Of f cm ion |