{news} Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch

[Kenneth Humphrey]

       This has a good ring to it. No place more
needful of challenging the established order than the
State of Utah.

       Ken

--- David Bedell <dbedellgreen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> (I thought this was a clever gimmick.  Find a Green
> with the same last name 
> to run against the incumbent, and you're sure to get
> some media attention.  
> Not to mention getting votes from confused voters.)
> 
> 
> Green Party's Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch
> 
> The Associated Press
> Friday, November 11, 2005; 10:01 PM
> 
> SALT LAKE CITY -- Five-term incumbent Sen. Orrin
> Hatch, R-Utah, will face a 
> challenge from a distant member of his own family,
> Green Party candidate 
> Julian Hatch, in the November 2006 election.
> 
> The Green Party of Utah announced Friday that the
> 51-year-old environmental 
> activist and disabled veteran accepted the party's
> nomination at a 
> convention this week.
> 
> "I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah
> will finally have a real 
> choice since Democrats have adopted so many
> Republican policy positions in 
> recent years," said Hatch, a lifelong Utah resident.
> He works as the state's 
> coordinator for the Western Watersheds Project, a
> public lands policy group 
> based in Hailey, Idaho.
> 
> Julian Hatch opposes the war in Iraq and will also
> campaign for abortion 
> rights, affordable health care, tax reform and
> public land protection.
> 
> "We are building a populist third party to challenge
> the ruling two-party 
> system that has become immersed in big money and
> entrenched in fascist 
> ideology," he said.
> 
> 
> 



		
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