Democratic Candidates

The following is a list of all the current Democratic candidates and links to their websites; many of the candidates also have Pages/Groups on FaceBook & Twitter.

Utah Governor:

Peter Carroon http://www.votecorroon.com
Lt. Governor: Sheryl Allen (R)

US Senator:

Sam Granato http://www.voteforgranato.com

US House of Representatives:

Jim Matheson http://www.mathesonforcongress.com

Utah State House:

District 74 Cyril Noble cyrnob@beyondbb.com
District 75 Dr. Jerry Howard docjer@juno.com

WA County Sheriff:

Kevin Brooks Brook98@hotmail.com

If you would like to publicize an event for any of the above, please email the information to dosuupdate@yahoo.com and it will be posted.

From Jim Matheson

PROTECTING HEALTH AND SAFETY AGAINST DANGEROUS NUCLEAR WASTE

Utah is not the dumping ground for dangerous radioactive waste, whether it is low level radioactive waste from Italy, Brazil, and Great Britain, or the Department of Energy’s depleted uranium left over from the process of making nuclear bombs, or DOE’s uranium mill tailings from the Cold War era.

I have stood up to the company that has applied for a license to import 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy’s decommissioned nuclear reactors for processing in Tennessee and ultimately 1,600 tons slated for disposal in Utah. Any foreign country that has the technology to generate nuclear power has the technology to dispose of its own waste. Our finite storage capacity should be reserved for our own industrial needs.

I am moving a bill through Congress that will ban the importation of foreign waste and untangle the regulatory mess by establishing once and for all that it is not in Utah’s, or the United States’ interest to become the magnet for homeless nuclear trash.

I oppose efforts to store depleted uranium in Utah at a site licensed only for low level radioactive waste. DU is a dangerous product that becomes more radioactive over time. It is wrong to bring in thousands of tons of material held by the U.S. Department of Energy when the federal government hasn’t set safety standards for its long-term storage.

I wrote legislation that forced DOE to clean up the 16 million ton uranium mill tailings pile perched on the banks of the Colorado River near Moab. DOE first wanted to cap the pile in place and later wanted to drag out the cleanup over 20 years—increasing the chance that a flood would sweep the contamination into the river and downstream, putting drinking water supplies for 25 million users at risk and threatening the health, safety and economy of Utah. I successfully pushed Congress to enact a law that will clean up the site in the next 10 years. I also secured $108 million in 2009 to double the transport of the tailings and create 200 new jobs in Utah.