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Show ' l . " . ; ; s '''''( ; - J; ... f ; ( i fi - : ) V" I i t ; I Members of the Garfield County Teenage Republicans group met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch deft) in Panguitch on Monday afternoon to discuss some politics. Those who lined up to shake his hand were Orrin Hatch: Most Important Election Since Civil War PANGUITCH Perhaps the most profound observation Senator Orrin Hatch shared with fellow Republicans Re-publicans in Garfield County on Monday, was his sincere belief that the upcoming November election is vitally important. "I think every election is important," he said "bin there's never been 'an election that's more important than this one not since the civil war. "This is going to determine whether your quality of life stays the same or not. And it's going to determine who appoints the other 50 percent of the Federal judiciary, including at least three Supreme Court Justices. "And I guess you already figured fig-ured out, I don't want Al Gore doing do-ing that. Because if he does, a lot of our way of life is going to go. "Almost every decision by the Supreme Court that you believe in" said Hatch, "is a 5-4 decision." There are only nine justices there. And these people on the other side, they want to get that stacked so that they can get legislation through five people. It will be six if Gore gets in. Because it will switch around. "Legislation they could never get through the elected representatives representa-tives of the people in Congress, never, not in a million years. But if they can get those five justices to be activist justices, they can change all of our lives for the worst," Hatch said. Hatch Campaign Staff Marshall Thompson, chairman, Cannonville; Maggie Burrows, vice chairman, Hatch; Lace Walker, secretary, Cannonville; Denise Clark, delegate, Henrieville and Rosa Lee Thompson, Cannonville. A number of Garfield County's Republican Party strong leadership and constituency met for nearly two hours with Senator Orrin Hatch in a political luncheon at Foy's County Corner Cafe in Panguitch. Among those attending the re laxed, down home lunch, was District Dis-trict 73 Legislator Tom Hatch; former Legislator Jim Yardley; all three county commissioners, Clare Ramsay, Louise Liston and Maloy Dodds; several mayors including (See HATCH on Page 8-A) HATCH From Front Page Jean Seiler, Tropic; Jon Torgerson, Panguitch; and Marjie Spencer, Es-calante; Es-calante; Panguitch City Manager Allen Henrie, Republican Party Chairman Bill Cox, Boulder; and many others. Also in the audience were five active youth in the Garfield County Teenage Republican (TARS) organization: or-ganization: Marshall Thompson, chairman, Cannonville; Maggie Burrows, vice chairman, Hatch; Lace Walker, secretary, Cannonville; Cannon-ville; Denise Clark, delegate, Henrie Hen-rie ville and Rosa Lee t Thompson, Cannonville. Orrin Hatch, was described in a recent updated biography by Lee Roderick as a "giant in the U.S. Senate and one of the most accomplished accom-plished legislators of our time." Roderick's book is titled, "Gentleman of the Senate, Orrin Hatch, A Portrait of Character." Hatch left a copy of the book with each person who attended. Hatch introduced his wife, Elaine, calling her the "quintessential "quintes-sential mother and grandmother." They are the parents of six children and grandparents of 19. Also on hand were Mac Christe-sen, Christe-sen, the "Mr. Mac" of Mr. Mac Menswear who, with Maureen Casper, Cas-per, helps the campaign to function; func-tion; Dave Buhler, a former state legislator and now advisor to the campaign; and Jeanene Holt who runs Hatch's headquarters in Cedar City. Candidacy for President Hatch spoke just briefly after the opening welcome by Garfield County Commissioner Clare Ramsay Ram-say about his short quest for the presidency. Ramsay, in opening remarks, had expressed his dismay that Hatch was not standing before this group as a candidate for the presidency. Hatch said he felt he had to run and was glad he did. "I got in because be-cause I was afraid that Bush might fall. I was worried that maybe he didn't have enough upstairs to be president of the United States and I wasn't the only one worried about that. "But I'll tell you, as I went on the campaign trail with him, I gained such a respect for him. Not only did he not fall and the rumors prove not to be true but I found him to be a very, very bright guy." ' "You probably noticed last Wednesday (referring to the second televised BushGore debate) how well he did. He kicked Gore's rear end. And I'm not just saying that lightly. Most everybody agrees he did. "And you'll notice he used Utah ' the western states and badly 'we've been treated by this administration." admini-stration." Hatch said he can work well with President Clinton. "I -mean, he has lots of faults but one thing is for sure. I'm fond of saying say-ing that he is so unprincipled that .we can sometimes manipulate him into doing some things that are right." He said Clinton is actually more pragmatic. "Gore is a true committed com-mitted left winger. And I mean, he has no conception of our way of life out here. And he never will, either. ei-ther. I can't name one bill in the .whole time I've been in Congress, 16 years, I can't name one bill he passed. Nor can I name one time when he reached out to the other side and tried to work with us. "In Bush's case, he has the support sup-port of most of the Democrats down there in Texas. And was able to pass legislation with a Democratic legislature, that no other governor was able to do. Veterans Office Commissioner Maloy Dodds, Panguitch said, "One of our constituents con-stituents called this morning and said she had read in the paper where you're pushing to have a Veterans office opened up in Cedar City or St. George. And it listed all the counties in southern Utah except Garfield. We wondered if that was a mistake or are you planning on putting put-ting the VA office here?" "I don't know where it will be, said Hatch, "but it happens to be a ; mistake. It would be to serve the ' southern Utah region. As you know, we've been successful in getting get-ting some 22 INS agents and DEA agents in the whole southern Utah area. "The Veterans Administration you'll be interested to know. In ' the Department of Defense Authorization Authori-zation Bill we passed last week we ' put a lot more money in for veter- ans' health care. Methamphetamine Bill We also passed the Hatch Methamphetamine Bill. Utah is the third largest methamphetamine lab-shutdown state in the union. : Now that may be because we're more into keeping statistics but it's pathetic. You young people. . Don't let them ever get you to one of those 'rave' parties or where they treat you to GHB or Ecstasy and get you hooked on mcth. Once they're hooked on meth, it's almost impossible im-possible to ever get free from it. That's a scorge in this state that is second to none. "We passed this bill not only to give law enforcement more power and rehabilitation for our kids, but also to have environmental cleanup because methamphetamine labs are toxic, explosive and many of them are done in small homes and trailers with little children present. They're almost impossible to clean up. They're very, very expensive to clean up." BushCheney-GoreLieberman BushCheney-GoreLieberman "When Lieberman who I happen hap-pen to like with the HatchLieberman Bill that reduced capital gains rates by 28 percent to 20 percent he was the only Democrat who had the guts to stand with me, and it took us four or five years to do that. "You've got to give Bush a lot of credit ... for picking Cheney. Cheney is head and shoulders above all the other three of them, and Cheney's from the West. He understands un-derstands our issues. And he's smart, and he's honest, and he's decent. de-cent. And his wife is every bit as smart as he is. She ran the National-Endowment for Humanities. She could have made a great vice president herself. So you get two for one there. "And, all I'm saying is that it took.. .it's to Bush's great credit that he was willing to pick somebody some-body who was head and shoulders above himself and the other two. And Cheney is. "But did you notice how the Democrats treated Cheney, compared com-pared to the way we treated Lieberman? Lieber-man? We Republicans. There hasn't been an unkind word about Lieberman. Before Cheney became a vice presidential nominee, the Democrats were lauding him for his Secretary of Defense role and for what a good man he is and all that. And they just turned overnight, to play politics on that issue." Military Readiness "But you alstfsaw Lieberman in that debate with Cheney say that our military is just as strong as ever. We are the number one military mili-tary in the world, but in readiness, we're going down rapidly. We can no longer fight a Persian Gulf War. We shot 34 of our cruise missiles in Kosovo and we hit 25 tanks. "I'd like to do more to strengthen our military. I mean, in all honesty, it's pathetic the way they've allowed the military to deteriorate. dete-riorate. And when he said we have just as strong a military as ever, that was a bald-faced untruth. Strong Military Jeanne Harshman, Boulder commented, "We have a son in the tmilitary at Fort Sill, who's been in 17 years. He's a military policeman police-man and he's in charge of all physical physi-cal security at Fort Sill. And he has indicated, since Clinton came in office, because he's been in Korea a lot and stationed a lot of places, that the morale of the young men at all of the military installations is what you say ..." "It's gone," said Hatch "So we know first hand in our family," said Harshman, "of what he Cheney says of what is happening hap-pening to the demoralization of the men and women that are there in the military. And that they do lack parts, they do lack things that they should have." "They are cannibalizing all the planes now to keep the few in the air they can," said Hatch. "And this administration hasn't given a darn. And the reason they don't is, they get elected by social spending and they don't get elected by keeping keep-ing the military strong. We've got to change that. We cannot go another an-other four years without changing that. "We should live up to our commitment to the military. We put a lot of money in this Department Depart-ment of Defense Bill. He Clinton is going to veto the bill, probably. If he doesn't veto that bill, that bill will he a very good bill. It should rectify some of it. "But it won't. ..the Government Accounting Office (GAO) just came out and said we need $78 billion dollars more for the military than we have the money, and an average of over $50 billion a year more, every year in the future. And we can't get the friends on the other side to rectify this. Dismantle the Monument? District 73 Representative Tom Hatch, Panguitch asked Hatch, "Senator, Governor Bush the other night during the debate, alluded to the fact that, should he be elected president, there was a possibility that he could undo some of the things that this administration has done in recent months. Particularly Particu-larly as it relates to the monuments that they have created, not only in Utah but all over the west?" "Forty four million acres," interjected in-terjected Orrin Hatch "How realistic is that?" asked Tom Hatch. "Could that be done by the executive branch? Would it take Congressional action to do that?" " I think it would take both," Orrin Hatch responded. "I think he could undo part. Look, if he Clinton had come to the elected official, to you guys here and elected state officials and said, 'I want to do a monument in Utah' "If he'd have come to us and said, "Look, I want to work with you,' we'd have worked out a monument. A lot of that area can be put in a monument. But why would you tie up the largest body of clean burn, environmentally sound coal in the world? Why would you do that? Why wouldn't we mine that and blend it with the dirty Eastern coal and stop millions of tons of particulates?" asked Orrin Hatch. |
