I am starting to be asked my position on certain issues as my candidacy for Salt Lake County Council takes on its character and I get out and about more. One of the issues is mass transit, how it can be improved, if I support property and sales tax increases to improve it. Here is my position, which can also be read at my campaign website.
Current Spending and Funding:
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Small but lively!
That’s how I describe last night’s opening of the Sugarhouse Summer Farmers Market and Street Festival. It poured rain and it’s too early for produce, but several vendors and organizations held the event along the sidewalk on Highland Drive in Sugarhouse where a steady stream of shoppers stopped by. Everyone had fun and is looking forward to see this grow.
The Desert Greens Green Party of Utah provided recycling containers and boxes for donations of non-perishable food items for Utah’s Food Bank.
Vendors that were present included:
Free Speech Zone – organizer of the Festival
Cloe Hines of Elemental Inspirations
Sugarhouse Candle Co.
Home Strung Jewelry by Dena
Here are some photos:
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I received this from Kathy Dopp, Summit County Clerk Candidate for the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah:
If you live in Summit County and can work as a poll worker, please call 435-615-3203
More poll workers are needed and this is a good opportunity to learn the details of the new election process.
You might also contact your county clerk in other counties and ask if poll workers are still needed for the primary election. Early voting begins next week I believe.
The hourly rate of pay for poll workers varies by county. I have done it in the past and it used to be a enjoyable day signing in voters and saying hello to everyone.
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Kathy Dopp
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The Salt Lake County Clerk’s Office provides voters the option of voting prior to Election Day at an Early Voting Location. Voters do not need an excuse to utilize this convenient voting method. Registered voters may visit an Early Voting Location and cast a ballot in person using a touch screen voting device.
Early voting aims to maximize the opportunity to vote by allowing the County Clerk to designate Early Voting Locations and hours beginning 14 days before Election Day, ending the Friday before Election Day. In order to be eligible to participate in Early Voting, voters must be registered to vote at least
30 days prior to the election and provide photo identification.
Salt Lake County Government Center – 2001 South State Street, Suite #S1100
* June 13 – June 16 (8:00 am – 5:00 pm)
* June 19 – June 23 (8:00 am – 5:00 pm)
South Jordan Library – 10673 South Redwood Road (1700 West)
* June 13, 14, 15 (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
Hunter Library – 4740 West 4100 South
* June 16 (1:30 pm – 5:30 pm)
* June 19, 20 (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
Whitmore Library – 2197 Fort Union Boulevard
* June 21, 22 (3:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
* June 23 (1:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
More info: Salt Lake County Clerk’s office
(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.
June 10
1854
At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, James Augustine Healy was ordained as the first African-American Roman Catholic priest.
1917
The Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland launched a three-week campaign of street meetings and demonstrations in dozens of towns to build support for peace in the midst of World War I.
1963
“Equal Pay Act of 1963” passed and signed into law; guarantees women equal pay for equal work
1971
A twenty-one year old trade embargo with mainland China is lifted by President Nixon.
1980
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Nelson Mandela‘s first writings while imprisoned on South Africa’s Robben Island were smuggled out and made public.
Nelson Mandela’s cell on Robben Island where he spent 17 years |
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1990
50,000 attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.
Tonight will be the opening of the Sugarhouse Farmers Market and Street Festival in Sugarhouse, SLC, UT from 5:30 – 9pm. The festival will be held each Friday through August 25th.
The Desert Greens Green Party of Utah is providing recycling containers for plastic and paper, aluminum, and glass, as well as launching a summer long food drive for the Utah Food Bank. Containers for non-perishable food items will be strategically placed throughout the festival and will also be available at the Free Speech Zone shop in Sugarhouse during the week.
Please drop by and say hi – I’ll be at the Desert Greens table.
June 9
1623
English negotiate treaty with Potomac River tribes; after a toast symbolizing eternal friendship, Chiskiack chief & 200 followers drop dead from poisoned wine. (1623)
1954
Counsel for the U.S. Army Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during hearings into alleged communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps. McCarthy attacked a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher, as a communist for his prior membership in the National Lawyers Guild.
Army counsel Joseph N. Welch (left) confronts Sen Joseph McCarthy (right)
Said Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” The entire hearings and this encounter were broadcast live on television, a first, and was the beginning of the end for McCarthy’s power to spread fear.
1963
Arinell Ponder of SCLC & 5 students arrested & beaten for using white Trailways bus bathrooms, Winona, Miss. (1963)
1984
150,000 marched in London, England, for nuclear disarmament, protesting the presence of U.S. Cruise missiles on British soil.
1993
Police banned a vigil by Women in Black in Belgrade, Serbia.
Women in Black demonstrations combine art & politics
I was on Midday Metro today on the show that Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor, hosted. I represented the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah and other guests represented other parties in Utah. I appear about halfway through the program.
Tom was supposed to be in the studio today but he got the same bug I did and with all of our household being ill it totally threw our schedule off and we both completely forgot about it. So I ended up calling in.
I was overwhelmed by the fact that I was the only woman on the program and had a hard time expressing myself without being interrupted, with all due respect to the other guests. Therefore I wrote to the staff member at KCPW who handles that program to suggest a woman’s form of female candidates and politicians and she loved it and will start working on it!
Here is a link to the audio file from today’s program with me appearting halfway through:
I was just informed that my blog is a featured blog this week at Treehugger on its “TH Blog Love – Our Favourite Greens Of The Week”.
Here is a little info about Treehugger, taken from their “about us” page:
TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green products and services. Consumers also rely on the directory to help facilitate their buying processes. TreeHugger is the most effective way for them to find well designed products that are also ecologically sensitive. TreeHugger is currently written by an international team….
Check out Treehugger‘s very informational green site.
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Senior Citizens are being evicted from their homes of more than 50 years, according to a Deseret News article today.
Residents of a well established mobile home park in Cottonwood Heights, most of whom are elderly and low/fixed income and who had planned on living out their lives in the park, are being forced to move as a result of the sale of land upon which their homes sit. Many of the residents will be unable to move their mobile homes because of the aged style of the structures.
The developers who purchased the land plan to build more luxury homes (Cottonwood Heights is an area for million dollar homes)and 150 trailers will have to be moved or destroyed.
For those with newer mobile homes who can move to another park, the cost to relocate is anywhere from $7,000 to $12,000. The incoming developer has offered to offset some of those costs, but “it’s not going to be painless,” Cullimore[Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore Jr.] said. “And there’s going to be some human costs as this unfolds.”
There is talk of hiring lawyers to fight this.
Some residents want to hire attorneys to fight the landowners and developers. Shearrer[one of the long time residents] said she feels helpless: “How can you fight people with money? You just can’t.”
The Salt Lake Community Action Program is stepping in the help the displaced residents, but this scenario is very disruptive to these peoples’ lives.
“These people that are truly, truly in need, and how do they survive?” Martinez[Salt Lake Community Action Program’s Virginia Marrufo Martinez ] said. “I always say I believe in miracles. So, we’ll see what happens.”
The mayor is portrayed in the article as having empathy and compassion for these folks and is quoted as stating that the land owners “had the right” to sell their property. That may be but where has the mayor and its council been? Can’t they re-zone the land? It’s not too late.
This is yet another case where money and greed is superceding human needs. With our aging population increasing significantly, we just cannot allow these things to happen. Goliath must be confronted by the Daveys here and fight for what is right. Kicking seniors out of their homes just isn’t right.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 