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November 4, 1998

Dear NFRA Leaders and Supporters:

There are two ways to look at the results of the November 3 election.  To
put it bluntly, our leadership in Washington suffered from the Seinfeld
syndrome-a campaign about nothing.

First, it was a wake up call.  We know we have problems, no had no agenda
and our leadership wimped out on the issues.  We still have 30
governorships.  Even the Ventura win in Minnesota helped the Republicans.
He carried in, by a good margin a Republican majority in the Minnesota
House of Representatives, throwing out the DFL.  We still have 55 members
of the Senate and we only lost about five members of Congress.

This was not to be a "typical" election cycle.  We had won so large in =
1994
and kept most of it in 1996, that there was no way to win the typical 27
seats in the House and the few Senate and Governorships we would "normally"=

win in the sixth year of a presidency.

That was an explanation of the disaster of yesterday.

The real answer is that we gave the voters no reason to vote for the
Republican Party.  Not only didn't we have a message, but we backed away,
on a national level, from tax cuts and government limitation.

Did we see our Congressional leadership go to the wall to help families by
providing an end to the marriage tax penalty?  Did we see our leadership
working to cut government spending, or did they "steal" $21 billion from
the "surplus" for emergency spending.  Not only didn't we save the money
for social security (if that was a proper decision) but also we gave money
away to the corrupt IMF, studies on onions, having the federal government
pay for teachers, etc.  In exchange we got a memorial against communism =
and
put off the creation of a national identification card.

What the public saw was a morally challenged president who had an agenda
and didn't care about impeachment, lack of votes in the House or Senate,
but went nose to nose with the Republican leadership.  Our leadership
didn't blink, they begged for forgiveness.

Then to compound things, the American public saw us put ads on television
asking whom do you trust?  Well, they wouldn't allow the President near
their daughters, but would allow him to govern because he has a vision.
The public trusted Clinton over the Republicans, because the Republicans
didn't even try to deliver on tax cuts, government limitations or
protecting Social Security.

Then there will be some that claim this was a repudiation of conservative
Republicans in favor of moderate or liberal Republicans.  Yet, in
California a self proclaimed conservative Dan Lungren lost and a moderate,
Matt Fong lost.  In Illinois a solid conservative Peter Fitzgerald won and
in Iowa a liberal, Jim Lightfoot, lost.  A moderate Joel Fox lost and a
conservative Snowbarger lost for Congress.

This election was not a repudiation of conservatism; it was a repudiation
of the Seinfeld syndrome-nothingness.  Bob Dylan once wrote, "when you =
have
nothing you have nothing to lose."  The corollary is when you say nothing;
you have nothing to win.

Principles always win.  Even when you lose, you still win by pushing the
agenda.  Barnes, Seigelman and Hodges all campaigned as conservatives.
They spoke our language, even if they didn't believe it.  They did so,
because they know that the electorate is conservative.  In 1996 Clinton
campaigned on a Balanced Budget Bill, Welfare Reform, anti-crime education
reform.  All of these were our issues.  Yet Dole and our leadership never
mentioned that he was speaking like a Republican and governing like a
Democrat.

For the next two years we need to strengthen the grass roots movement,
develop honest, principled candidates and speak out for a true Republican
Platform.  And, if our "leadership" won't join in, then ignore them and go
directly to the people.

We need a real Republican Party, we need principled leadership, and we =
need
an agenda of tax cuts, limited government and a return of decision making
to the family.  If we do that, the year 2000 will be another 1994.  If we
don't, we will deserve to become the minority party once again.  The =
choice
is ours.

I saw the article below from Steve Forbes on the Internet.  As I see
similar articles from other presidential candidates on their vision, I =
will
forward them to our list.  The time is past for recriminations, now we =
must
look for vision and ideas.

Please feel free to forward this whole document to your discussion and
subscription lists.


From the Republican Wing of the Republican Party,

Steve Frank
President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies

NOVEMBER 4, 1998

TO:        MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS

FROM:         STEVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN

SUBJECT:     BACK TO BASICS: RECAPTURING THE MORAL
        AND POLITICAL HIGH GROUND


No message is no way to win elections.

Republicans should have learned by now that you must give people
compelling reasons to vote for you. Mealy-mouthed rhetoric is no
substitute for a muscular, substantive agenda.

A party that loses sight of its values and principles, loses its base.
The budget deal was evidence of a party adrift from its core beliefs.

The temptation will be to take a defensive crouch. Do the opposite. Offer
an eye-opening, exciting, bold agenda. Vividly demonstrate to the
American people the meaningful difference between dynamic conservatism
and the forces of stagnation and status quo (a.k.a., liberalism).

Here's how the GOP can again become a party of principle and high
purpose, instead of a party of timid, office-clinging incumbents.

Domestic policy:

=B7 Immediately pass a massive tax cut of $2,000 per family as a
downpayment towards the flat tax. Highlights of the tax cut: Repeal the
George Bush tax increase of 1990 and the Clinton-Gore tax increase of
1993. Abolish the marriage penalty and death tax. Repeal the Social
Security earnings penalty on the elderly. Slash capital gains taxes. A
reinvigorated American economy is a must in the face of a growing
international economic storm.

=B7 Expand parental control of education. Start by overriding the
President's veto of educational savings accounts and urban school choice
pilot projects.

=B7 Expand patient control of health care. Make genuine, affordable =
medical
savings accounts available for all, particularly for working families,
single moms and the uninsured. Do it by removing the strangling,
suffocating restrictions imposed in 1996 and 1997 by believers in
national health care.

=B7 Put young people in control of their own Social Security payroll =
taxes.
Protect the current system for those on it, and those about to go on it.
Take the money out of the hands of the politicians; let younger people
control those assets in their own individual retirement accounts.

=B7 Ban partial birth abortion and require parental notification and
consent in the case of minors.


National security policy:

=B7 Rebuild the hollowed out American military. Properly compensate those
serving in our armed forces. Provide them proper training and the most
modern equipment.

=B7 Move rapidly to deploy a missile defense system. Why wait for North
Korea to develop missiles that can reach Hawaii and Alaska?

=B7 Reassert American economic leadership amidst the global economic
crisis. The $18 billion IMF bailout was a major mistake. Immediately end
White House-IMF malpractice. Forcefully advocate the principles of
economic progress: 1) low taxes; 2) honest money; 3) rule of law; 4)
non-bureaucratic interference in the setting up and running of
businesses; 5) open trade.

=B7 The Fed must slash interest rates and provide badly needed liquidity =
to
the markets.


Finally, Congress must carry out its constitutional responsibility to
conduct hearings on all of the abuses committed by the Clinton-Gore
Administration, including Filegate and the foreign campaign cash scam.
Remember, the President of the United States - the nation's chief law
enforcement officer - lied under oath.

This exciting, serious agenda will help the GOP seize the moral and
political high ground - and America and the world will benefit.

* * * * * * * *

Contact: Joel Rosenberg, Communications Director, [phone]
http://www.ahgo.org





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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:20:07 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Charles Hardy)
Subject: [[e-mail]: Nov. 5 column - one-issue voter]

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    FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED NOV. 5, 1998
    THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
    Confessions of a one-issue voter

    When I got so confused by the political fliers landing daily in my
mailbox that I couldn't tell where either candidate for my state Assembly
seat actually stood, I copied down their phone numbers and called them.

  These guys are spending thousands of dollars trying to get their message
to you, aren't they? Trust me, if you're a registered voter, they are not
going to mind if you save them the quarter and call (start ital)them(end
ital).

  One of Jeff Knight's volunteers called me last Thursday evening to ask if
she could speak to me about Mr. Knight. I said no, I'd called him and it
was him I wanted to talk to. "You called (start ital)him(end ital)?" asked
the young lady. "Wait a minute, I'll put him on."

  Young Mr. Knight won the Review-Journal's endorsement this year (there
was no third-party candidate), but it was a close call. Counting against
wonderfully-named incumbent Tom Collins far more than the fact he's
admitted to engaging in a few barroom scrapes over the years (his response
when asked to confirm or deny those rumors a few years back remains a
legend at the paper: "I've whupped, and I've been whupped") is the fact
that he regularly wins the endorsement of every public employees' union in
the state.

  Tom is a big supporter of public school "class size reduction," which
sounds great except that fast-growing Nevada never has enough classrooms to
actually put just 22 kids in each. So they squeeze 44 kids into each room,
put one teacher at the front to teach and one at the back to grade papers,
and call that an "22-to-one student-teacher ratio." A teachers union
full-employment boondoggle, is what it is.

  Jeff Knight made a good pitch to the editorial board in favor of
privatization and smaller government. But I increasingly worry, these days,
that such talk comes cheap.

  I asked young Mr. Knight -- who literally went to school with Tom
Collins' kids -- if he supports the Second Amendment. He said he does,
though he admitted he owns no firearms and belongs to no gun-rights groups,
nor even to the National Rifle Association.

  Then why on earth, I asked him, did so many of his mailers feature
frightening, full-color staged photographs of handguns in school
lunchboxes, and accuse Tom Collins of wanting to make it legal for
convicted felons to carry guns?

  It turns out that's a reference to the first version of Nevada's
"must-issue" concealed-carry handgun permit bill, introduced by Tom Collins
years ago, which would have required Nevada sheriffs to license concealed
carry of pistols without background checks. The Republicans now interpret
that early version (the law which finally passed does require some
background checking) as "legalizing" concealed carry by convicted felons,
though I suspect it would still have been a parole violation for many.

  As for felons who have finished paying their debt to society, they're
allowed to go to church under the First Amendment, aren't they? They still
have a right to a jury trial under the Fourth Amendment, don't they? If the
Second Amendment is a right, it's a right. Why do we have to fill out any
darned "permit applications," punishing the 98 percent of us who are
law-abiding in a vain effort to disarm the rest?

  Mr. Knight started squeaking a bit at that point, insisting it's "only
the criminals, only the felons" he's concerned about. "Everyone else has a
right to carry a gun." All those frightening pictures of kids with guns
appeared on pre-printed, generic GOP party handouts based on focus groups
that told them folks were worried about violence in the schools this year,
he explained. "My only decision was whether to use them or not, and since
it's a close race and I was being outspent, I had to use them." With his
name and photo plastered at the top, mind you.

  Tom Collins got home at 11 p.m. that evening. The reason I know is
because that's when he called. I let the answering machine field the call,
so he called back again at 7:30 the next morning.

  What kind of politician is Tom Collins? He has streets in his district,
on the far northwest edge of Las Vegas where the desert and the Indian
reservation start, that have no streetlights, recalls columnist John L.
Smith. When voters asked him for streetlights, Tom Collins went to work and
got the county to OK them. Then Tom Collins -- a journeyman lineman by
trade -- showed up and (start ital)installed those streetlights in
person.(end ital)

  You bet Mr. Collins was going to keep calling till he reached this voter.

  He explained about the concealed-carry bill. I asked why we need permits
at all. He agreed, but said that was the best bill he's been able to get
passed so far, and a whole lot better than it used to be.

  As my friend L. Neil Smith says, "How can you trust a politician who
won't trust you with a gun"?

  On Tuesday, I voted for Tom Collins -- a Democrat, a proud union member,
a gun owner, and a life member of the NRA.

  The race was supposedly too close to call. By sunrise Wednesday, Mr.
Collins had roared home with 58 percent of the vote.

 Next time: a tough choice in the nation's closest Senate race.


Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at [e-mail].

***


Vin Suprynowicz,   [e-mail]

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John
Hay, 1872

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not
get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases
to discriminate between good and evil.  He becomes a slave in body and
soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt
against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943

* * *



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Charles C. Hardy        | If my employer has an opinion on
<[e-mail]>            | these things I'm fairly certain
801.588.7200 (work)        | I'm not the one he'd have express it.

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that
 we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall
 have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other
 terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American
 .. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the
 federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever
 remain, in the hands of the People." -- Tench Coxe - 1788.

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:48:29 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Charles Hardy)
Subject: [ALERT!!! SENATE SEAT UP FOR GRABS!!!]

- ----BEGIN FORWARDED MESSGE----

If anyone knows of a good candidate.....

>GOP taking applications to replace Orem senator
>
>          Last updated 11/05/1998, 09:10 a.m. MT
>
>                OREM =97 The Republican Party is accepting applications to
>replace state Sen. Craig Peterson, R-Orem,
>          who will resign in December to devote more time to his business.
>                Candidates must submit written requests to the Republican
>Party, P.O. Box 452, Provo, UT 84603, no later
>          than 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. Last-minute filings may be hand
>delivered to party officials who will be at the Provo
>          post office, 95 W. 100 South, at 5 p.m. on the same date.
>                Qualifications include being at least 25 years old, three
>years residency in the state and six months residency
>          in the district.
>                Utah County GOP delegates in District 14 will meet Nov. 19
>at the Orem City Council chambers to consider
>          the applicants. Each candidate will have seven minutes to make a
>speech.
>                If one candidate receives 60 percent of the vote, he or she
>will be ratified by the Utah County Republican
>          Central Committee and submitted to the governor. If no candidate
>receives 60 percent, the top two vote-getters
>          will be forwarded to the committee and the governor.
>                For more information, call Rod Fudge, 221-1668, or Stan
>Lockhart, 377-7428.
>
>

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Charles C. Hardy        | If my employer has an opinion on
<[e-mail]>            | these things I'm fairly certain
801.588.7200 (work)        | I'm not the one he'd have express it.

"All military science becomes a matter of simple prudence, its principle
 object being to keep an unstable balance from shifting suddenly to our
 disadvantage and the proto-war from changing into total war." --
 Clausewitz (From the book "On War" by Raymond Aron, Doubleday, New York,
 1959).

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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 98 07:52:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: ON NOV 30th:ALL GUN BUYS MUST be REGISTERED ALL-ALL-ALL-ALL

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 10:47:48 -0500
From: [e-mail]

'An every increasing number of "laws" are infringing on the RIGHT
to keep and bear arms.'

That is correct, in 30 DAYS from TODAY, ALL GUN BUYS, and I mean ALL,
including Shotguns, and Rifles MUST pass through the FEDERAL "INSTANT"
Background Check. For the fools out there who thought a super
sophisticated interlocking computer system with info on EVERYONE it
touches was a solution, soon you will experience your folly. Don't
think for a moment that a "check" will not also record the fact that
a check was done, with all the pertinents about you. HOW is this NOT
in fact REGISTRATION also? And how will an "INSTANT" background check
be useful UNLESS the COMPUTER DATABASE CONTAINS DETAILED and UP TO DATE
PSYCHOLOGICAL/IDEOLOGICAL/BIOLOGICAL/CRIMINOLOGICAL DATA ON EVERYONE
who might want to buy a gun? And since they cannot know who might want
to buy a gun in advance, the database by necessity MUST, if not initially,
then over time, CONTAIN this DETAILED DATA on ALL CITIZENS to even pretend
to provide the protections the "government" claims it will provide. And
you bet your bottom dollar that at first it won't be comprehensive enough
to fill that mandate, therefore there will be cries of "WE NEED to IMPROVE"
the database for it to be effective. Bottom line is they will know who has
what and which doors to knock down to collect them when it is no longer
fashionable, or whom to jack up a tax on, or whom to visit periodically for
inspection, federally mandated gun cyber-retrofiting, and indoctrination,
and identification upgrade recertification etc. ad nauseum. Your comments
are invited, AND WHERE ARE THE SECURITY CAMERA VIDEOTAPES from all the
SECURITY CAMERAS in and around the MURRAH BUILDING in Oklahoma City.
WHERE ARE THEY?!!! Where is the pressure to OBTAIN THEM? Are we all fools?
[e-mail]

Government Braces for Complaints Over New Gun Laws
- --------------------------------------------------

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal and state officials are bracing for a
tide of complaints when they begin a national system of instant
background checks for all gun buyers November 30 -- just in time
for the crush of holiday purchases.

"We need to work together to minimize the complaints," Attorney
General Janet Reno said Thursday, "to make it as easy as possible
for law-abiding people to have weapons."

"Although it's not been easy, we are on schedule," Reno said at her
weekly news conference. She announced the system will be operating
nationwide on the date set by the Brady Act, which established federal
background checks for handgun purchasers almost five years ago.

The new instant system, operated by the FBI and state governments,
will encounter two crushing burdens from the day it replaces the
checks on handgun buyers, which have been made since February 1994
by state and local police and sheriffs:

Rifles and shotguns included

The new law will double the number of checks because it requires
background approvals not just for handgun buyers but also for those
purchasing rifles and shotguns. Deputy Assistant FBI Director David
Loesch estimated 12.4 million firearms of all kinds are sold each
year in the United States. All will be covered now, plus another
2.5 million annual transactions when an owner retrieves a firearm
from a pawn shop.

December is the busiest month of the year for gun sales, because
hunting seasons coincide with Christmas buying. "It's difficult to
bring up a system in the biggest month of the year, obviously,"
Loesch said. "Of course we're worried about it, sure. I mean, we'd
be crazy if we weren't."

But he maintained, "We'll definitely be prepared."

Some states will do checks themselves Under the new system, 27
states have decided to do some or all of the checks themselves.
The FBI will do the checks for the rest.

ALSO: States that will do instant gun buyer checks

In the FBI system, a gun dealer will telephone one of two toll-free
numbers and supply the buyer's name, sex, race, date of birth and state
of residence.

If no record is found in a computer check, approval for the sale will
be given to the dealer within three minutes, Loesch said. He predicted
this outcome 80 percent to 85 percent of the time.

If a record is found, the call will be transferred automatically
from the telephone centers run by a contractor to FBI examiners,
who will check the actual computer record. They will advise the
dealer to deny the sale or delay it for further checking.

The FBI and local lawmen will have up to three days to check further --
to see, for instance, if an arrest led to a conviction or acquittal if
the disposition of the case is not on the computer. The current system
allows up to five days for that check.

The FBI has hired and almost finished training 513 people in West
Virginia to handle its share of the work, set up two telephone
centers through the contractor, Teletech, and sent teams to brief
the nation's 106,000 gun dealers and pawnshop owners.

Reno said the Justice Department has distributed $200 million in
the past few years to states to correct, complete and computerize
their criminal history and other records. Every state now has some
computerized records, but not all the records needed are complete
or on computers.

Loesch said that effort has paid off: The FBI's Interstate
Identification Index of state and federal criminal histories has
grown to 29 million records from between 21 million and 22 million
four years ago.

Two months ago, the index had 50,000 court protective orders issued
in domestic abuse cases; today it has 109,000 such orders, Loesch said.

But Loesch and Reno both said state checks were preferable to federal
ones because many mental health and some drug abuse records are held
only within states and not shared with the FBI or other states.

Who is banned from buying guns Federal law bans gun purchases by
people convicted or under indictment on felony charges, fugitives,
the mentally ill, those with dishonorable military discharges, those
who have renounced U.S. citizenship, illegal aliens, illegal drug
users and those convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors or under
domestic violence restraining orders. State laws add other categories.

From February 1994 through last December 31, the checks had blocked
an estimated 242,000 handgun sales. In the most recent year, 61.7
percent of those disapprovals came because the buyer was a convicted
or indicted felon.

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(no spaces) is in the subject.




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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 98 07:52:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: UT: General Election Survey Results 1/3

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:59:27 -0700
From: "Richard L. Partridge" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
    [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
    [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
    [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

To their discredit, the GOA earlier mailed out their survey results showing
Partridge as not having replied (I had), so I fired off a rather stern Email
to them. To their credit, my phone rang within minutes with a very repentant
GOA person ready to make amends. He faxed another copy of the survey - I
faxed my answers, and "voila"! the result below: (By the way, there was quite
a number of LPUs who were shown as not returning the survey. In Utah, a
candidate who is shown as such, might as well kiss the election off. That's
worse than answering adversely as it indicates indifference.)

Dick

- --------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gun Owners of America <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:07:52 -0500
Subject: UT: General Election Survey Results
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

GOA 1998 Utah General Election Survey Results Roster

Gun Owners of America E-Mail/FAX Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: [phone] / FAX: [phone]
http://www.gunowners.org

October 29, 1998

1. Do you oppose "one-gun-a-month" laws that limit purchases of
firearms by law-abiding citizens?

2. Should state law prohibit Utah localities from placing
limitations on the rights of citizens to purchase, possess, or
carry firearms?

3.  Would you support legislation prohibiting state and local
officials from conducting Brady background checks, charging
fees, and keeping records of the Brady information they receive
from gun dealers?

4. Would you oppose legislation that would require that firearms
purchased by private citizens be registered with law enforcement
and tracked by a centralized record system administered by
government agencies?

5. Do you oppose legislation banning the manufacture, sale or
possession of semi-automatic firearms?

6. Do you oppose legislation banning the manufacture, sale or
possession of large-capacity magazines?

7. Do you oppose laws that would require that the police give
permission prior to a person buying a firearm?

8. Do you oppose laws which allow persons who are shot by a
properly-working firearm to sue firearms manufacturers and/or
firearms sellers (strict liability)?

9. Do you oppose laws which would impose any punitive taxes on
the ownership, purchase or use of firearms or ammunition
currently available to honest citizens?

10. Do you oppose government licensing to buy a gun?

11. Will you oppose computerized "instant" background check
legislation since it centrally registers gun sales and gun
owners?

12. Do you oppose government mandated use of trigger locks or
other such hazardous "safety" devices which have the effect of
making it difficult, if not impossible, to have a gun available
to defend your home and family?

13. Would you support Vermont-style legislation which would
eliminate all requirements to pay fees and register gun owners
and simply allow law-abiding citizens to carry firearms openly or
concealed (at the individual's discretion) for any reason except
for the commission of a crime?

Key: Y = pro-gun. N = anti-gun. NR = did not respond to that
question. - = did not return survey.

Senate Results       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
01  Julander     IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01  Smith        L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
01  De Cair      NL  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
03  Davis        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
03  Jones        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
04  Black        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
04  Stephenson   R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Hale         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Larsen       I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Elwell       L   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Buhler       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
09  Wall         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
09  Swain        NL  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
10  Van Horn     D   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
10  Bonsall      L   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
10  Coleman      NL  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
10  Mansell      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
11  Mayne        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
12  Peterson     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
12  Leigh        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
13  Allen        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
13  Nelson       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Davis        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Maloney      IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Hellewell    R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
18  Allen        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
18  Tanner       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
21  Ostler       R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
22  Sanders      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
22  Spencer      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
24  Rowley       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
24  Knudson      R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
24  Partridge    L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
26  Romero       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
26  Sady         L   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
26  Evans        R   y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 98 07:52:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: UT: General Election Survey Results 2/3

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House Results        1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
01  Anderson     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
01  Gardner      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
02  Wight        I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
02  Ferry        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
03  Bissonette   D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
03  Buttars      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
04  Redd         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
04  Pace         R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
05  Jones        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
05  Olsen        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
06  Barrow       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
06  Erwin        NL  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
06  Stephens     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Babcock      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
07  Gladwell     R   y  y  y  nr y  y  y  y  y  nr nr y  nr
08  Hasenyager   D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
08  Murray       R   y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr
09  Hansen       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
09  Miles        R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
10  Shurtliff    D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
10  Turner       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
11  Whiting      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
11  Saunders     R   nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr nr
12  Rounds       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
12  Adair        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
13  Stoddard     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
13  Stephens     R   y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
14  Blakeley     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
14  Bush         R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
15  Espinoza     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Parker       L   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Arciaga      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
15  Chard        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
16  Nilsen       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
16  Garn         R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr y  nr
17  Miles        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
17  Judd         L   y  y  y  y  n  nr y  y  y  y  nr y  y
17  Dillree      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
18  Koehn        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
19  Pollock      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
19  Allen        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
20  Wadsworth    A   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
20  Jeppson      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
20  Hansen       I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
20  Siddoway     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
21  Gowans       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
21  McNeill      R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
22  Duckworth    D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
22  Richards     I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
22  Johnstun     L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
22  Cripps       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
23  Bourdeaux    D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
23  Ellefsen     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
24  Becker       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
24  Brady        R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
25  Jones        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
25  Estes        NL  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
25  Latham       R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
26  Fife         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
26  Garske       IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
27  Baca         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
27  Amos         L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
27  Burnham      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
28  Cohne        D   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
28  Bradshaw     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
29  Goodfellow   D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
29  Staker       R   n  y  n  n  n  n  n  y  n  n  n  n  n
30  Biskupski    D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
30  Irving       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
31  Carlson      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
31  Christensen  I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
31  Pearce       L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
31  White        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
32  Christensen  D   y  n  y  n  n  n  n  y  y  n  n  n  n
32  Ericson      IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
32  Bigelow      R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
33  Hendrickson  D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
33  Cannon       R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr y  y
34  Carty        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
34  Holdaway     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
35  Buffmire     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
35  Arrington    R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
36  Peters       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
36  Tyler        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
37  Gill         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
37  Short        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
38  Cox          D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
38  Pierce       L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 98 07:52:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: UT: General Election Survey Results 3/3

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39  Dexter       L   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
39  Zolman       R   y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
40  Jensen       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
40  Walsh        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
41  Arent        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
41  Olsen        IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
41  Woolley      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
42  Buckner      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
42  Meng         R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
43  Hammond      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
43  Harper       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
44  Yengich      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
44  Bangerter    IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
44  Bennion      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
45  Olsen        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
45  Brown        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
46  Morgan       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
46  Hepner       L   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
46  Allen        R   y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
47  Faux         I   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
47  Holladay     R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr y
48  Beck         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
48  Perry        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
49  Shouse       D   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
49  Curtis       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
50  Chamberlain  I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
50  Hardy        RL  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
50  Frandsen     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
51  Hall         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
51  Swallow      R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr nr y nr
52  McKenzie     P   y  y  y  y  y  nr y  y  y  y  y  y nr
52  Hogue        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
53  Miner        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
53  Ure          R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
54  Coombs       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
54  Snow         R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
55  Seitz        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
56  Tripp        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
56  Heindel      IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
56  Cox          R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
57  Mayne        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
57  Nelson       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
58  Johnson      IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
58  Valentine    R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
59  Wilkinson    IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
59  Rowan        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
60  Ransom       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
60  LeBaron      IA  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
60  Bryson       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
61  Light        IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
61  Dayton       R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  nr
62  Hill         IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
62  Alexander    R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
63  Todd         IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
63  Tanner       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
64  Thayne       NL  n  y  y  y  n  n  y  y  y  y  y  n  n
64  Lockhart     R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
65  Bird         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
65  Jensen       IA  y  nr y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
65  Throckmorton R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
66  Bradford     D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
66  Way          R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
67  Meredith     I   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
67  Wright       R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
68  Pipes        IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
68  Styler       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
69  King         D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
69  Miller       NL  y  n  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n
69  Johnson      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
71  Valerio      D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
71  Johnson      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
72  Schafer      IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
72  Bowman       R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
73  Gubler       A   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
73  Hatch        R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
74  Moore        D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
74  Iverson      R   y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y
75  Dalton       D   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
75  Holliday     IA  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
75  Hickman      R   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

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