Posted on 06/27/2006 11:37:28 AM PDT by Spiff
House Race Hotline Extra: Utah 03 Some quotes to illustrate the importance of this race.
"There is a very good chance that he could go down," Jeff Hartley, executive director of the Utah Republican Party, tells First Read. "You wouldn't have the involvement from the White House if he weren't in jeopardy." (NBC News)
Consultant LeVarr Webb: "A low turnout is expected, so be one of the few who make a difference and have a voice." (Utah Policy Daily) )
UT GOP Chair Joe Cannon "says he's trying to stay neutral" in his brother's UT 03 primary, "but it didn't come across that way" in his online comments about challenger/alleged Satan victim John Jacob (Salt Lake Tribune).
A poll published over the weekend by the Deseret Morning News and KSL-TV, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, found Cannon ahead — 46-33 percent among registered voters in the 3rd District. But 18 percent of voters remained undecided. "That's one of the highest 'undecideds' numbers I've seen so close to a primary election," said Jones, who has polled in Utah for more than 30 years. (Deseret News)
Jacob backtracks on his "Satan" comments: "What the [Salt Lake Tribune] reported and what I said weren't the same thing. It wasn't that [the devil] was trying to keep me out of Washington. I was just saying when you're trying to get into politics, there's a lot of adversity. … Contrary to reports of saying it was keeping me from being there, it was going to help me in training when I get there. It's not the devil; it's adversity." (Utah Policy Daily)
Utah 02 conservatives should turn their attention to liberal Democrat Congressman Matheson.
Who is the Republican running against him? Where are all the anti-illegal immigration people of this?
Does not say much when an issue as important as national security and immigration when it does not draw a larger turnout...from either side.
FR isn't a very good cross section of America. Very few people are that consumed by politics and see individual issues as that important.
I don't want an amnesty any more than anyone else. But I do resent the nasty rhetoric that fills FR about this issue these days.
Ha! Can I nominate you for understatement of the year? When most people (including committed conservatives) find out I post on a forum like this as a hobby, they look at me with utter confusion. It's like I volunteered for jury duty just for fun.
I've been hearing it since the 1980s, people have wanted something done about it and it keeps getting worse.
A controlled guest worker program does not entail giving illegal law breakers an opportunity to obtain citizenship.
If the illegals weren't here our economy would be just fine running on the domestic labor pool, dilluting that worker pool with unskilled labor and then claiming we need them is garbage.
They are lawbreaking invaders, aka scum.
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