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Title: Utah Senator Beats Tea Party Challenger
Source:
FT
URL Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3cac ... ba-11e1-8bf2-00144feabdc0.html
Published: Jun 27, 2012
Author: Anna Fifield
Post Date: 2012-06-27 12:20:26 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 5086
Comments: 9
Orrin Hatch, the six-term Republican senator from Utah, has comfortably retained his party’s backing after fending off a primary challenge from a Tea Party-backed candidate who claimed the incumbent was insufficiently conservative. Mr Hatch will now go forward to the US general election in November, but with Utah solidly Republican, there is no doubt that the 78-year-old will win a seventh term. Utah also held its Republican presidential primary contest on Tuesday night, the last state to do so. Mitt Romney, who enjoys approval ratings of more than 90 per cent in Utah, partly thanks to his Mormon faith, had long since clinched the nomination but Tuesday’s vote marks the official end of the primary contest. In Tuesday’s Senate primary, Mr Hatch won 67 per cent of the vote while Dan Liljenquist, the 37-year-old former state lawmaker seeking to oust him from the ticket, took 33 per cent. This was in line with the commanding lead predicted in a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll published on Sunday, in which 60 per cent of registered Republican voters said they would vote for Mr Hatch, while only 32 per cent said they supported Mr Liljenquist. “Today was a great win for me and my campaign, and I couldn’t be more pleased to see our hard work pay off,” Mr Hatch said in a statement after the results were announced. “After travelling our state from corner to corner, talking to voters, and discussing the issues of great importance to our state – I believe my message was heard loud and clear and I am grateful that my fellow Utahns have entrusted me once again to be the Republican nominee for this important office.” Mr Liljenquist forced Mr Hatch into a full primary fight after winning a surprising level of support at the state Republican convention in April. In depth He had tapped into Utahns’ concerns about the US deficit and blamed Mr Hatch for contributing to it with his votes for the troubled asset relief programme, or Tarp, and the US government rescue of the car industry, both responses to the 2007-08 financial crisis. Mr Hatch was facing his first primary in 36 years but learnt from the mistakes of colleagues who hewed to their centrist ways, including Bob Bennett, his fellow Utah senator who was ousted by Mike Lee in a Tea Party-backed challenge two years ago. In Indiana, fellow six-term Senate veteran Dick Lugar had lost his party’s nomination in a heated primary in April, after steadfastly sticking to his principles of bipartisanship and moderation. But Mr Hatch also overwhelmingly outspent his opponent. He raised more than $10m for his campaign, according to the campaign’s filings with the Federal Election Commission, while Mr Liljenquist raised less than $800,000, half of which came from his own pocket.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
That sucks.
It is shameful to return this man to D.C. He'll never eliminate all the hidden democrat coating he wears. I can't stand to listen to him or see his face because all I 'see and hear' is how much Ted The Swimmer was his dearest friend. Or how great A/G Janet Reno was.
Yes. And you'll forgive me for pointing out, that there isn't nor has there been an LDS member that is a true Conservative. Never-ever, and the legislation they have supported bears out that truth.
Another thing I forgot to mention was his adoration of Louis Freeh, the FBI head who thought it was just fine for Len Horiuchi to open fire illegally and immorally at Ruby Ridge.
Sheeeet.
This guy is THE ultimate political transvestite and disgrace. Thanks for the partial reminder of Hatch's barf-worthy hypocritical charade(R) and pandering to the worse elements of the Dem Party.
He raised more than $10m for his campaign, according to the campaign’s filings with the Federal Election Commission... ...while Mr Liljenquist raised less than $800,000, half of which came from his own pocket.
Thanks for the partial reminder of Hatch's barf-worthy hypocritical charade(R) and pandering to the worse elements of the Dem Party. Need a laugh?? These are a couple of excerpts from articles just posted about Orrin Snatch..... With the exception of the FreedomWorks group loosely tied to the tea party movement, most national conservative groups were happy with Hatch’s overall record.... Sen. Orrin Hatch (ACU rating: 90 percent) was victorious last night in his primary since his first in 1976.
Political Bumper Stickers: The fastest way in the world to let people know you are a total dumbass.... Total number of Obama 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far......5.. Total number of Romney 2012 bumper stickers I've seen so far...0.. Total number of Obama vs GW Bush 2012 bumper stickers....2!!
And the beat goes on...
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: rowdee (#2)
#4. To: SJN (#3)
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
#6. To: rowdee (#2)
It is shameful to return this man to D.C. He'll never eliminate all the hidden democrat coating he wears. I can't stand to listen to him or see his face because all I 'see and hear' is how much Ted The Swimmer was his dearest friend. Or how great A/G Janet Reno was.
#7. To: ALL (#0)
Hatch also overwhelmingly outspent his opponent.
#8. To: Liberator, All (#6)
This guy is THE ultimate political transvestite and disgrace.
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
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