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To: stockman_scott who wrote (99130)	8/7/2011 2:46:05 PM
From: ILCUL8R	Respond to of 149317

Here is the email I just sent to Dr. Moench: Dr. Brian Moench, as President of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, please tell us how many members are Republicans? How many of your members voted for Republicans? I am a Democrat, a Mormon, who lives in Illinois, but have graduate degrees from Utah schools and relatives living there. Increasingly, I am unable to have a civilized conservation with any of my friends and relatives in Utah about politics and about the issues you highlight in your excellent article. My relatives reflexively vote Republican but assume their Republican legislators will be good people and do what is best. They are caught in the Wasatch Front Group Think Mentality Echo Chamber. You have a daunting task to overcome the massive amount of misinformation and prejudice amongst Utahans. Here is an article that speaks to this issue: deseretnews.com "Since the last election, Utah Mormons who are Democrats have faced increasingly vicious verbal attacks in their wards and in their neighborhoods. Those of us who were openly involved in the campaign have been called "socialists" and "terrorists." Our Christianity and patriotism have been questioned by ward members. We have been snubbed and sneered at. We have been forced to listen to political diatribes against the president of the United States in our auxiliary meetings and testimony meetings. Racial jokes are being told in church foyers." Good luck getting traction for your message and good luck with disseminating it to avoid the disaster being brought on us by the Tea Party. Dick West