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Show A-8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 5-7, 2020 The Park Record MYTHS OF THE MASSES Park City-area 1st Congressional District Candidates Chadwick Fairbanks III Please identify one way Park City and surrounding Summit County resemble the rest of the 1st Congressional District and one way they do not. Please discuss how the similarities and differences will guide your campaign as you seek to secure votes on a district-wide basis. Please identify one political myth about Park City and surrounding Summit County you have encountered as a candidate elsewhere in the 1st Congressional District and how you attempt to dispel that myth. Please identify one political myth about elsewhere in the 1st Congressional District you have encountered in Park City and surrounding Summit County and how you attempt to dispel that myth. One way that Park City and Summit County are like other parts of CD1 is that outdoor recreation and tourism are huge economic drivers. Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort, Woodward, and soon, the Mayflower Resort are local ski resorts while other ski resorts such as Snowbasin Resort, Powder Mountain, Nordic Valley, Cherry Peak Resort, and Beaver Mountain are spread out through the rest of CD1. One way that Park City and Summit County are different from the rest of CD1 would be the presence of one of Utah’s largest employers, Hill AFB, which is down on the Wasatch Front. I plan to leverage my position in the US House of Representatives to not only promote our ski/outdoor tourism while simultaneously protecting our land, but I will work very hard to promote the pre-eminence of our very crucial military base. One myth about Park City and Summit County that is held by the rest of CD1 is that Park City is extremely “liberal”. While Park City is a haven for rich, Californian Democrats, it is not the “liberal” bastion that those few in Park City would want the rest of us to believe it is. In fact, there are just as many registered Republicans in the Park City limits as there are Democrats. Most Parkites are registered as Unaffiliateds which is truly what I am as well. I’ve met and spoken with plenty of Parkites who are “closeted” Libertarians or at least fiscally conservative while being more socially liberal. There IS a reason why Democrats are fleeing California for Utah and it’s not because California is some Liberal Utopia - it’s really a Leftist Hellhole. The pussy-hat wearing Progressives like those Trump-triggered SJW idiots led by Charlize Theron who “graced” us with their presence during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Women’s March are a super-vocal, super-obnoxious, super-minority of people. Most Parkites and Summit County residents, like myself, have a large streak of what I refer to as classical liberalism. I will prove this to the rest of CD1 by opening the first-ever Congressional office in Park City to interface with and give a much larger platform to a very important Utah community. One myth about the rest of CD1 held by some of those in Park City and Summit County is that CD1 is comprised of frustrated, bitter people of a certain faith who cling to guns or religion and hold antipathy towards immigration, global trade, or conservationism. While most of CD1 is comprised of religious conservatives, people of faith don’t “bitterly cling” to God or guns. In fact, 6 of the 10 most generous cities in the United States are in Utah and Idaho with Provo being #1. There are two fantastic articles that detail this phenomenon. Just read “Bleeding Heart Tightwads” by Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times and “Stingy Liberals” by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe. Not only do “bitter clingers” give more money to charitable causes than their “virtue-signaling” political counterparts, but they tend to give more to secular causes as well that benefit the arts and education. I will prove this to Park City by bringing home the deed to our lovely land as provided for and outlined by the US Constitution, the Utah Enabling Act of 1894, and Utah HB 148 (2012). Together, we can implement an even better version of “the Alaskan Land Use Model” (Permanent Fund Dividend paid out of the Alaskan Permanent Fund) that will not only provide every Utahn with a basic income, but do so in a way that is incredibly conservationist. Within the city of Park City, the population tends to be extremely liberal. Similar to the population in downtown Ogden. The rest of the county tends to be more conservative, much like the rest of our congressional district. As a Republican candidate, I understand I will not get substantial support out of Park City proper. I will be knocking doors, making phone calls, meeting with city leaders, and attending events all across our district as I work to earn the trust and support from Republican voters across our district during this primary. Park City and the surrounding area is ultra-liberal and rich, and pretty much everyone is from the east and west coast. When, in fact, the surrounding area is diversified. And as a conservative Republican, I can tell you there are Republicans within the city as well. I will be knocking doors, making phone calls, meeting with city leaders, and attending events all across our district as I work to earn the trust and support from Republican voters across our district during this primary. Some in Park City believe the rest of the district is extreme far-right and uneducated, but that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Our district is fortunate to have multiple institutions of higher learning, such as Utah State and Weber State. I will be knocking doors, making phone calls, meeting with city leaders, and attending events all across our district as I work to earn the trust and support from Republican voters across our district during this primary. Howard Wallack Continued from A-1 Perceptions factor in political momentum to secure a party nomination. Donna McAleer, though, accomplished the feat twice. She won the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District during consecutive election cycles, in 2012 and 2014. The Pinebrook resident brought a business, not-for-profit, athletic and military background to the two campaigns, having worked in the corporate world after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. McAleer was eventually routed in both of the contests as Bishop steamrolled through most of the district. The voting population of Summit County, which she won in both campaigns, is far too small to propel a congressional candidate to Washington. McAleer took Summit County by healthy margins but was crushed in the other counties, leading to the lopsided losses in both of the elections. In 2018, the most recent year the seat was on the ballot, Summit County accounted for a little less than 8% of the votes as Bishop dispatched the Democratic nominee that year, Lee Castillo. McAleer suffered similarly as the Republicans in the more populous counties overwhelmed Summit County’s Democratic voting bloc during her two campaigns. Although McAleer carried the Democratic banner in a Republican-controlled district, her experiences as a candidate from the Park City area could nonetheless offer lessons for the two local GOP hopefuls as they move into an important period in the campaign. Like McAleer, Wallack and Fairbanks will need to convince the voters in places like Ogden, Logan and Brigham City they share the same values and desires for the district and the country. And, also like McAleer, they will need to attempt to shed the image of Park City as a left-leaning playground for the wealthy. A Republican voter in the more conservative parts of the district could wonder whether a GOP candidate from the Park City area, perhaps someone like Wallack who moved to Park City from the East Coast, truly embraces the conservatism of the rest of the district. “They need to be out of Summit County,” McAleer said about a local candidate in the 1st Congressional District, regard- PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Donna McAleer, a Pinebrook resident who won the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District, twice says candidates from the Park City area vying for the seat face challenges. However, an organized campaign that rallies broad support could be enough to overcome them, she says. less of party. “Because that’s where the voting population is.” McAleer, who does not know Wallack or Fairbanks, in a recent interview spoke about the challenges of a campaign in the 1st Congressional District as a candidate from the Park City area. She spoke about a preconceived notion encountered on the campaign trail that could eventually play a role on the GOP side this year with the two Park City-area candidates in the running. “The assumption that everybody who lives in Park City is wealthy,” McAleer said as she explained one of the difficulties of raising campaign funds as a candidate hailing from the Park City area. Some potential contributors saw a candidate from the Park City area as having the financial means to fund a campaign on their own, making fundraising, a crucial task in a congressional-level campaign, more challenging, she said. McAleer instead had to show herself as an “everyday citizen,” a person who worked at a mountain resort while raising a school-age daughter. “That wasn’t who I was,” she said about the perception of wealth in the Park City area. “This isn’t my second home. This is my only home.” Still, though, she said the Park City-area address did not decide the results of the election. Some told her there were other crucial challenges she needed to overcome in the 1st Congressional District. “People did say I have three strikes against me,” she said, describing the three as being that she is a woman, a Democrat and someone who is not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Not that I was Park City.” McAleer since her political days became the executive director of a Salt Lake City-based not-for-profit organization called the Bicycle Collective, a group that promotes bicycling as an environmentally friendly transportation option and provides bicycles to people with low or moderate incomes. She said she would consider another political campaign under certain circumstances and said she has been approached about a 1st Congressional District campaign in 2020 or a Senate bid at some point. Should she mount another campaign, McAleer said, she would highlight her experience as a mother alongside the diverse background she stressed in the earlier campaigns. That sort of strategy could be relatable to the voters, she said. “I don’t think that the location is the determinant,” McAleer said. “I think a well-run campaign that is successful in getting out the vote in the district can win.” Easy Living with Mountain Views 74 N. 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