"Utah GOP State Rep May Challenge Hatch"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A state representative announced he will challenge Sen. Orrin Hatch next year, saying his fellow Republican is not serving people back home.

"Though specific issues are open to different interpretations and judgments, service to constituents is not. Either it gets done or it doesn't," Rep. Steve Urquhart said Wednesday on his Web site. "Currently, it doesn't."

A primary contest between Hatch and Urquhart would be held only if neither got 60 percent of the delegate vote at the state Republican convention in May.

Urquhart, a lawyer and the House majority whip, has been active in trying to keep radioactive waste out of Utah and did not want Utah to participate in President Bush's No Child Left Behind education plan.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050721/D8BFPP402.html

[ncrainbowgrrl]

1. Most interesting.

Thanks for posting this!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I am hoping some Utah DUers have some input on this. Would be

great to get rid of Hatch, though.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. I think there is A Utah DUer.

I dunno about plural though...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Only in Utah can Orrin Hatch not be conservative enough.

[LoKnLoD]

4. Their is another guy running against Hatch

Pete Ashdown, he owns Xmission a SLC ISP. His web site is http://pashdown.org/ . Unfortunately Utah is always going to be Reddest state in the nation. I was expecting Hatch to get a Supreme Court nod.