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Reid to speak on "How the West Will Be Won"
National Leadership, Senators, The Big Strategy, Utah

Jjdinnerutah
Leo Brown points to a speach that our man Harry Reid will be making in Salt Lake this Friday. Since the Jazz aren't really doing much this time of year (Ha ha) or the Kings for that matter, this could be the best show in Utah.

Senator Harry Reid, the highest ranking Latter-day Saint in public office, is speaking in Salt Lake this Friday prior to the state Democratic Party convention. The dinner is sold out. The overflow is sold out. The party hadn't anticipated this level of excitement and interest. His theme: How the West will be Won!

If anyone is going, email us, we want to hear how it was! Is it being webcast anywhere?

Emmett O'Connell | May 4, 2005 | Comment on This Post (1 so far)
Permalink: Reid to speak on "How the West Will Be Won"
National Leadership, Senators, The Big Strategy, Utah

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For a report see
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2719567
Excerpts:
In a feisty speech to a boisterous crowd of nearly 900 at the downtown Salt Lake City Marriott, Reid told Utah Democrats to take heart.
Reid says the fight over Senate rules and the filibuster is the "most important" issue he has worked on. "There have always been filibusters. If they do this, it will change our basic framework," he said. "It will make the Senate an extension of the House of Representatives.
"I will never give up the right for extended debate," Reid said.
Besides the filibuster fight, Reid said Republicans' overreaching to privatize Social Security and protect their own from ethics investigations will turn voters off.
In Utah, where Republican state lawmakers outnumber Democrats three to one, Reid says minority party leaders need to be more aggressive, challenging conservative characterizations of liberals as purveyors of abortion, gay marriage and secularism.
"You can't run from those issues. Democrats have to take them on. We have to let people know who we are," Reid said. "Where can you go, but up?"
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[For my own views on the nuclear option see
http://www.thousandreasons.org/get_article.php?article_id=52
or http://www.armsmerchant.org/get_article.php?article_id=52 ]

Posted by: Leo Brown | May 7, 2005 6:55:21 AM

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