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November 28, 1998.


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WHERE DOES MERRILL COOK STAND ON THE ISSUES?


"You know what Merrill Cook will do in Congress because you know Merrill Cook."

--Merrill Cook's Republican campaign slogan in 1996.



ON EDUCATION

"I believe the federal Department of Education has outlived its usefulness."
--Merrill Cook campaign literature, 1996.

"Eliminate the Department of Education. . . ."
--Option chosen by Merrill Cook on Project Vote Smart questionnaire, 1996

"I've not called for the elimination of the Department [of Education] . . ."
--League of Women Voters/AARP Debate, September 30, 1996.




ON TAX CUTS

"Cook considers tax cuts -- including the 15% across-the-board plan pushed by presidential nominee Bob Dole -- a vital component of fiscal policy."
--Salt Lake Tribune, October 6, 1996.

"The idea we can give tax cuts and balance the budget is an out-and-out fraud."
--Salt Lake Tribune, October 27, 1994.




ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

"The last thing we need to do is remove the deterrent of the death penalty to these would-be killers."
--KBYU Television Debate, October 25, 1996.

"If we cannot guarantee a basic nondiscriminatory fairness then we shouldn't have the death penalty."
--Salt Lake Tribune, October 15, 1992.




ON ABORTION

"I favor . . . [an] anti-abortion amendment."
--Deseret News, June 14, 1996.

"I've supported the Casey law [affirming the right to abortion] year after year."
--Salt Lake Tribune, November 5, 1994.




ON PARTY LOYALTY

"I'm very loyal to the principles of the Republican Party."
--KRCL Radio, August 21, 1996.

"Republicans had the White House and Senate from 1981 to 1987 and the budget deficit skyrocketed. They can't do any better [than the Democrats]."
--Deseret News, November 4, 1994.

"[Governor] Mike [Leavitt] is a sanctimonious phony."
--Salt Lake Tribune, October 17, 1992.

"The Republican leaders are a bunch of arrogant elitists."
--Salt Lake Tribune, June 19, 1996.




ON THE $500 TAX CREDITS

"I've always said that if there's only one tax cut on the table that's proposed, and that happens to be a $500 per child tax credit, obviously I would grab that and accept that and vote for it . . ."
--KTKK Radio, July 12, 1996.

"An out-and-out tax credit of $500 for each child is wildly expensive. . .
[T]his is pandering, and not a wise approach."
--Salt Lake Tribune, September 9, 1994.




The only thing that you know about Merrill Cook is that you really, don't know Merrill Cook.

Merrill Cook really is utterly contemptible. No background, no bottom; absolutely no informing principle but the will to survive. Just a plump, little bag of squirming appetites.



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