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Show A-2 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 29-March 3, 2020 The Park Record The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. Same-day redelivery is possible if you call during the following hours: * Weekdays: 6:30–8 a.m. * Saturday: 7–8 a.m. * Sunday: 7–10:30 a.m. To request a vacation hold or change of address, please call 435–649–9014 or email: circulation@parkrecord.com Democrats ready for presidential primary Party eager to ‘have our voices heard’ on Super Tuesday JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The chair of the Summit County Democratic Party this week projected Pete Buttigieg or Elizabeth Warren will win the county in the Tuesday primary election, when voters in Utah will join the other Super Tuesday contests on one of the most important political days of the year. Meredith Reed, who leads the county Democrats, said supporters of Buttigieg, who is a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, have been talking to her about the primary in recent weeks. That is one of the signs that points Reed toward predicting a Buttigieg or Warren win in the county. She has heard little from supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, she said. Larger-population counties along the Wasatch Front will overwhelm the vote totals in Summit County, meaning it is likely just a small percentage of the votes in the primary will be cast locally. Still, though, Reed is pleased Utah voters will cast ballots on such an important day in the contest for the nomination. She said the Super Tuesday voting is important to Democrats in Utah as well as the broader state. She is hoping for up to 70% turnout among Democrats in Summit County on Tuesday. “We’re happy to have our voices heard,” she said about voting on Super Tuesday. The primary was shifted to Super Tuesday in an effort to increase the state’s importance to the nominating process. There would have been a chance there would be a presumptive nominee by the time Utahns voted had the primary been held later in the year, as has been the case in previous election cycles. Summit County Clerk Kent Jones, who will oversee the Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections on Tuesday, said he anticipates better turnout as a result of the Super Tuesday timing. The Democratic primary contest has received much wider publicity than the Republican one, which President Trump is expected to win easily. “Super Tuesday’s getting a lot of attention,” Jones said. He added that the large field of Democrats vying for the nomination coupled with the vote-by-mail balloting could lead to a large turnout. “I’m sure the Democrats are excited to pick a candidate,” said Jones, a Democrat, adding, “I just don’t think there’s a clear favorite.” The County Clerk’s Office mailed ballots to registered Democratic voters, registered Republican voters and Summit County’s senators support abortion ban If passed, law would go into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned Senate and be signed by the governor, the law would go into effect the day that Roe v. Wade is overturned. At that time, an abortion could be performed in Utah only if it is necessary to avert the death or “irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” of the woman, if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or if two physicians concur in writing that the fetus has a lethal defect or severe brain abnormality. The bill was amended before it was recommended by the committee to clarify language about potential legal penalties. If it were to become law, a doctor who performed an abortion that did not comply with these regulations would have committed a second-degree felony, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Before the amendment, it was unclear whether the woman receiving the abortion would be subject to a prison sentence, as well. The amended bill applies a penalty only to the person who performs the procedure. Christensen said divisive issues like abortion wear on him and contributed to his decision to retire at the conclusion of his current term at the end of the year. “Someone has to make those decisions — that’s why I got into government, because someone was going to decide it and they wouldn’t always decide the way that I like,” he said. “My voice, at least in this position, gets heard.” He said he hadn’t considered the fact that the dissenting committee votes were from women. “I’ve never even thought about it being male vs. female, and even less so white vs. colored,” Christensen said. Sen. Jani Iwamoto, D-Salt Lake City, identifies as Asian American in a biography on a campaign website, and Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, moved to the United States from Mexico in 1996, according to her campaign materials. Christensen said he holds women in higher esteem than men. “A woman is a woman and on my scale, she’s higher than the man is because she is a gentle soul and she has that reproductive ability. So they say you’re — men are looking down; I look up to women,” he said. Karrie Galloway, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Utah, said she is disappointed with the vote, and especially that the bill was introduced in the second half of the legislative session, which tends to be more frenetic and she said reduces the opportunity for meaningful debate. “It’s all an attempt to take away a woman’s bodily autonomy, her agency to make decisions about when and if to be pregnant,” Galloway said. She said the bill is likely timed to coincide with other legislation around the country that seeks to erode abortion rights while the Trump administration continues to nominate conservative judges. Several states also have similar socalled “trigger laws” that would be implemented if Roe v. Wade is overturned. S.B. 174 is one of three bills that appear to target abortion this legislative session, including a mandatory ultrasound bill and regulations for disposing of fetal remains. A 2019 law banning abortions after 18 weeks is tied up in the courts. Utah has a 72-hour waiting period in most cases, and women seeking abortions are required to be informed of things like exactly what the procedure does to the fetus and to hear a description of its development. interchange where crashes tend to occur as well. Between 2010 and 2015, 341 injury accidents occurred at the interchange. Another aim of the project is to widen the area where Foothill Drive enters onto I-215, which doesn’t affect eastbound traffic to Park City but sees significant backups that cause headaches for commuters and travelers on their way to and from the University of Utah. of such a project — how it would interact with the Wasatch Front’s watershed, its effects on local trails and the noise generated by a higher volume of traffic passing through Salt Lake City and Millcreek. Kisen said that noise walls have been considered for the project but are unlikely to be used, as their effect would be minimal. The input of commuters and visitors is crucial to the planning process, Gleason said. “We really do want to hear from everyone,” he said. “We can only be better when we hear from the people who our projects are going to affect, so that’s why we are going to involve people early and as often as they’d like to be involved.” Summit County is listed as a participating agency in UDOT documents, but country transportation manager Caroline Rodriguez said that, for now, the county is focused on addressing traffic concerns that are closer toC fi home. To view the draft proposal of thei Parleys Interchange Environmental Impact Statement and submit comments, visit the UDOT website for the project at parleyseis.com. The public comment period ends on March 9. ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record THE NEWSROOM To contact the newsroom, please call 435–649–9014 or email editor@parkrecord.com For display advertising, please call a sales representative at 435–649– 9014 or email val@parkrecord.com To place a classified ad, please call 435–649–9014 or email classads@parkrecord.com For questions about your bill, please call 435–649–9014 or email accounts@parkrecord.com The Park Record online is available at www.parkrecord.com and contains all of the news and feature stories in the latest edition plus breaking news updates. The Record’s website also hosts interactive entertainment, restaurant and lodging listings and multimedia features. Contents of The Park Record are Copyrighted 2015, Wasatch Mountain News Media Co. All rights reserved. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written consent of the managing editor or publisher. The Park Record (USPS 378-730) (ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Wasatch Mountain News Media Co., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription rates are: $56 within Summit county, $80 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday unaffiliated voters who requested a ballot. The Democratic primary is open to anyone who requested a ballot in addition to those registered as Democrats. The GOP primary is open to registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters who register as a Republican on the day of the primary. Unaffiliated voters who did not request a mail-in ballot, or residents who did not receive one for another reason, may vote in person on Tuesday. Jones said his office mailed more than 16,000 ballots. The slight majority were Democratic ballots, he said. The postmark deadline for the ballots is Monday. The County Clerk’s Office will operate voting centers from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Marsac Building, the Richins Building, the Summit County Building in Kamas and the City Hall in Coalville. Voters may cast ballots or drop off ballots at the voting centers on Tuesday. For more information about the balloting, contact the County Clerk’s Office at 615-3204. Both state senators that represent Summit County supported a bill seeking to ban almost all abortions, providing half the votes that moved the legislation out of committee and to the Senate floor. For Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, the reason he supported the ban was simple, though he said the divisiveness of the topic weighed on him. “I think at the moment of conception, that is a baby. That essentially is what it comes down to,” Christensen said. “When you end that — and I call it a baby — when you end that baby’s life, you’re giving a woman choice and not the baby.” Sen. Ron Winterton, R-Roosevelt, who also voted for the bill, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. S.B. 174 was recommended by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday. The vote was split on partisan and gender lines: The four senators who voted for it are male Republicans; the two senators who opposed it are Democratic women. The bill would ban all abortions with limited exceptions and would take effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, something that Christensen noted is “one heartbeat away” from happening. 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