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Show Jay Byrd to take bath It's not often you get a chance to dunk a gubernatorial candidate. But that's the chance north Utah County residents will have Friday, July 8, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Sounds Easy Video, 2 18 West State Road (Timp Plaza). Of course, Jay Byrd is not the most widely-recognized candidate for Utah's top state office. Even Gov. Bangerter leads Byrd in the polls. But as a write-in candidate for the Rubber Chicken Party, Byrd hopes to bring attention to some of the issues in the campaign. Byrd is a well-known disk jockey for country western radio station KKAT out of Salt Lake City who is known for telling his listeners to "take a hike." Saturday, with the proceeds going to muscular dystrophy research, re-search, anyone with good aim can tell Byrd to "take a bath." Byrd said he will man the dunking dunk-ing booth for four or five hours. Tickets to take a crack at dunking Byrd will cost two for $1. Other activities planned by Sounds Easy will be clowns and free balloons. Hot dogs, Pepsi, Pony Express pizza by the slice, Baskin Robbins ice cream cones will all be offered at 50 cents, with all proceeds pro-ceeds going to muscular dystrophy. Byrd said he also hopes to pick up some votes for his write-in campaign. As a write-in candidate, Byrd supports a varied platform from the absurd bird for which his party is named to Utah's infamous pumps. For example, Byrd wants to see the state bird changed from the seagull to the rubber chicken. "That was then, and now is now," says the candidate, explaining explain-ing that a Utah business manufactures manufac-tures more rubber chickens that any other business in the United States. And he has an interesting solution solu-tion to the Great Salt Lake pumps, which he says should not have been built. "Anytime you fool with Mother Nature, you are asking her to slap you hard," Byrd said. But with the pumps in place, Byrd thinks they might make a good tourist attraction. |