Off and Running
Wow! Day 3 and the pace already is frantic.
We received an e-mail that said, "Let me know what I can do to help. I'll definitely vote for you, and I'll get everyone I know to vote for you."
If this guy knows 2,000,000 people, I'm set.
We're collecting volunteer information at the campaign website. If you have offered to help, we will contact you shortly. The response was bigger than we expected, and we're trying to get our arms around it.
Here is why we will win. Yesterday, someone asked if he could volunteer. He then handed me a detailed campaign plan and promotional material he had obviously spent a chunk of time putting together. "We need a change," he said. There are people who believe we can do better, and they are approaching me with their talent and energy.
Here is how this is shaping up. They have money (gobs and gobs). We have people. Our people will beat their money. Fortunately, this is an election, not an auction.
I am putting together position statements on several issues. While I refine those and get them up on the site, this Deseret News article captures my position on several issues.
We received an e-mail that said, "Let me know what I can do to help. I'll definitely vote for you, and I'll get everyone I know to vote for you."
If this guy knows 2,000,000 people, I'm set.
We're collecting volunteer information at the campaign website. If you have offered to help, we will contact you shortly. The response was bigger than we expected, and we're trying to get our arms around it.
Here is why we will win. Yesterday, someone asked if he could volunteer. He then handed me a detailed campaign plan and promotional material he had obviously spent a chunk of time putting together. "We need a change," he said. There are people who believe we can do better, and they are approaching me with their talent and energy.
Here is how this is shaping up. They have money (gobs and gobs). We have people. Our people will beat their money. Fortunately, this is an election, not an auction.
I am putting together position statements on several issues. While I refine those and get them up on the site, this Deseret News article captures my position on several issues.
posted by steve u. at 7/22/2005
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Well, Steve, I am up in Northern Utah, Ogden to be exact, and if I can help in any way, let me know. I do agree with the young man who handed you the info he had put together, we can do better. We can let Utahans know that you are a change that we have been looking for.
I'd like to see you be able to present your views in a open forum where we can discuss the changes you'd like to see and those we as a state need.
Steve,
Orrin has voted to fund the resumption of nuclear testing in Nevada every time the Bush DOD has proposed it.
Where do you stand on nuclear testing and will you flip-flop if a Republican president asks you to?
I think Steve could potentially make a great Senator for our State, and see many reasons for retiring Senator Hatch. Steve obviously has the energy, and the smarts, to beat Hatch and serve all of us very effectively in the United States Senate.
Hatch was a young hotshot attorney in 1976 when he was elected to the Senate, only 42 years old, and he beat a 65 year old Senator who had been in office for 18 years. Hatch campaigned against him on a platform that he was too old and out of touch. Oh, the irony -- Steve is 40 right now, very much a young hot shot attorney, and Hatch is now 71 and will have been in office for 30 years in 2006. And if Hatch wins again in 2006, he'll serve at least 36 years, and be 78 by the end of his term.
But my only previous experience with Steve was during the 2004 State legislative session when Steve sponsored a bill that would have stopped the efforts of my city, and many other northern Utah cities, from building the UTOPIA broadband infrastructure project, even though the project had no direct impact on Steve's constituents in St. George.
But, I believe in repentance, and forgiveness, so I look forward to hearing more from Steve about why he could do a better job for our State than Senator Hatch. I hope Steve will hold a series of community meetings later this year, or early next year, where myself and members of my city could meet him in person and ask him questions. But this blog is pretty impressive, so maybe we should just post questions for Steve right here.
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graceann, if you haven't, please sign up at www.steveu.com and offer to host a cottage meeting. I'd love to present my views in your living room, if you'd like. My plan is to travel the state and let people know that I can do the job.
Brian, "no" to nuclear testing in Nevada. I've studied this one extensively, and it shouldn't be done there.
Anon, thanks for the kind words. Contact me and let's arrange a time when we can talk about issues, including UTOPIA. Quickly on UTOPIA, I think the process worked and we put it in a good place where it could go forward but the taxpayers wouldn't be so exposed. True, St. George wasn't a UTOPIA-city, but as chair of the tech committee at that time, I was tasked with setting policy for the state, not just my corner of the state. The state and locals figured out a resolution through extensive process and debate. Now, though, it looks like the feds want to pre-empt what we've worked out; I bet we're on the same side of that battle. Let's talk more.
Languatron, seek professional help.
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Sorry, Brian Watkins, but Hatch didn't vote to resume nuke testing in Nevada. He voted to fund a study to see if it was necessary to resume testing. I asked him point blank (in a letter) and he told me that he was not in favor of testing nukes in Nevada again but that he also was not afraid of the study because he is sure that a study would show that the risks way outwiegh the benefits - don't be afraid of the facts was the general gist of what he told me. He also said that he was the prime author of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act which pays victims of the earlier testing compensation if they get cancer. He said that almost a billion dollars has been paid out so far.
Is this state La Mancha and do you look in the mirror every morning and say, "Good morning Senator Quixote!"? There must be too many windmills in St. George!
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