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| LDS Senator Criticized for Assisted Suicide Position |
| Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury thinks he
has the perfect issue for his campaign to unseat U.S. Senator Gordon
Smith, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
and is finding unintended help in the effort from an unlikely source
-- the Bush administration, with whom Smith agrees on the issue.
After U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft last week changed Justice
department policy to stop assisted suicide, which is legal in Oregon
after a referrendum twice approved by Oregon voters, Bradbury
criticized Smith's anti-assisted-suicide stance, "It's really a
tragedy to have Oregoniansí will and expressed desire
get the bureaucratic backhand from the Bush administration," Bradbury
said. "I really think it's sad that our junior senator, who could
affect this, who has the greatest 'in' with the Bush administration,
is basically turning the other way." |
| Et Tu, Udall? Political Drama with Two Udalls Possible |
| Members of the Udall family, four times, have
been ushered onto the national political stage, with the actors
always having entered from stage left--the Democratic party. Two
were in Arizona: Morris and Stewart Udall. A son each of Morris and
Stewart currently serves in the US House from Colorado and New Mexico
respectively. |
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