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ORRIN HATCH
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Topics surrounding Mormon Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.
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 | Senator Hypocrite Hatch Is The Top Congressional Recipient Of Donations From Alcohol, And Close For Tobacco And Gambling
Monday, Oct 3, 2005, at 07:49 AM
Original Author(s): Anonymous
Topic: ORRIN HATCH -Guid- | ↑ | Wine, beer, liquor cash flows into Hatch coffers
Hatch has shown his true colors.
H Y P O C R I T E
I guess he did not heed the counsel of his best bud Gordo and "Stand for SOMEthing"
He will take money from anyone.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, a former LDS bishop who does not drink, has taken more money from wine, beer and liquor groups this year than any other congressional candidate.
The alcohol interests gave him $25,000. Rep. Mike Thompson, R-Calif., whose district is in California's wine country, is second with $21,568. In third place with $20,000 is Rep. Anne M. Northrup, R-Ky., who represents an area famous for bourbon.
That is not all. Hatch, R-Utah, who follows his LDS faith's admonition against smoking, took the fifth-most money this year among all congressional candidates from tobacco interests. The $13,000 he took was more than was donated to such tobacco-state politicians as Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. ($11,000), and Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C. ($9,500).
Again, Hatch, who says he also opposes gambling, as does his LDS faith, took the 15th most among Senate candidates this year from gambling interests. The $8,000 he accepted was more, for example, than has been accepted by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who also is a Latter-day Saint and who represents a state famous for casinos. Reid took $5,000 from such groups.
Hatch even had a fund-raiser at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas in 2003, aided by a $1,530 "in kind" donation by that casino/hotel for what Hatch's campaign said was catering and staff time. His campaign said the fund-raiser was not held for gaming interests but for health-care groups that were meeting in Las Vegas.
Rankings for donations by industry come from the Center for Responsive Politics based on data collected through Aug. 15. The Deseret Morning News also searched Federal Election Commission reports filed monthly by political action committees of industry groups to verify data and update it with some more recent donations.
A Hatch spokesman said it is not HYPOCRISY to take money from groups whose products the senator opposes. The spokesman said the groups may donate because they like Hatch's stands on many issues besides what he thinks personally of their products. Others question what such special interests may receive for their money.
| | | Orrin Hatch Has Read "85,000 Pages Of Ex-Mormon 'History'"
Monday, Mar 27, 2006, at 01:28 AM
Original Author(s): Dcl
Topic: ORRIN HATCH -Guid- | ↑ | Today I attended a meeting for a local LDS law society where Senator Orrin Hatch spoke. The topic was supposed to be "Ethics and the Judicial Confirmation Process," but he ended up talking an awful lot about TSCC, how "prejudice" against TSCC stymied his presidential bid in 2000, etc.
Anyway, one funny thing he said was that as an undergraduate student at BYU, he determined that he would read "1,000 pages of mormon history." He said his history professor suggested he balance it out with 1,000 pages of "ex-mormon history." (not sure what he meant by that- the history of ex-mormons or history about the church BY ex-mormons, but whatever...)
The good Senator then said that he found "ex-mormon history soooo interesting that he not only read 1,000 pages but 85,000 (!!!) pages of it." He said that he was not phased in his belief in the church by any of that "garbage."
Come on?!? 85,000 pages?!?!?!? Has there even been that much written of "ex-mormon history?"
The take-away point seemed to be that people who disbelieve TSCC are just "stupid" to be snookered by all that "ex-mormon" history out there, when someone as powerful as the senator failed to be convinced by it.
Personally, unattached from politics here and focusing narrowly on his comments re TSCC, I think Mr. Hatch is full of shit, both on claiming to have read the 85,000 pages and about his inferences.
I just thought this was eye-rollingly interesting.
| | | Orrin Hatch Tells Park City Utah Mayor Dana Williams To Stop Wearing Earrings
Thursday, Jan 25, 2007, at 06:33 AM
Original Author(s): Amelia Nielson-Stowell
Topic: ORRIN HATCH -Guid- | ↑ | From the Mormon owned Deseret News:
PARK CITY – After the Los Angeles Times ran a profile on Park City Mayor Dana Williams during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Williams was thrilled to get a letter from Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch.
"Thank you for showing a different side of Utah," it read. "P.S. Lose the earrings."
Williams has never taken off those two gold hoops.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249...
| | | Glad You Have To Pay A Full Tithe In Spite Of Bankruptcy? Oh, Just Thank Orrin Hatch And Barrack Obama
Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 10:35 AM
Original Author(s): Wanda, A.k.a. Eve
Topic: ORRIN HATCH -Guid- | ↑ | CONGRESS PASSES HATCH-OBAMA TITHING BILL
Clarifies Treatment of Charitable Contributions in Bankruptcy Law
Washington – The House of Representatives today gave final approval to a bill sponsored by Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to protect an individual’s right to continue reasonable charitable contributions, including religious tithing, during the course of consumer bankruptcy. The measure passed the United States Senate in late September and will now be presented to the President for his signature.
“Congress has a long history of protecting our religious freedom to tithe,” Hatch said. “That was our intent when we enacted bankruptcy reform last year, and this bill clarifies the law so that those who tithe can continue to live their faith while in bankruptcy.”
"For millions of Americans, charitable giving and tithing is an essential part of their lives," Obama said. "And in a country where 37 million citizens live in poverty, we should be encouraging charitable giving, not limiting it."
The Hatch-Obama bill, S. 4044, responds to a recent court ruling that above-medium income debtors in Chapter 13 bankruptcy cannot deduct charitable contributions, including religious contributions, from their payment plans. The ruling was based on an interpretation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA). Hatch and Obama authored S. 4044 to ensure that all individuals in bankruptcy, no matter their income, would be able to continue giving to charity and their church.
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fus...
| | | Orrin Hatch Wants Insurance Companies To Pay For Prayer
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009, at 10:05 AM
Original Author(s): Mormonquestioner
Topic: ORRIN HATCH -Guid- | ↑ | This just blew my mind, and I had to share. I was listening to a podcast this morning (Skeptic's Guide) and they mentioned that Orrin Hatch just inserted new language in the health care bill currently wending its way through Congress. And before you accuse me of just hating Republicans (since I kind of do...Wink just kidding... kind of) John Kerry and Tedd Kennedy were both for this as well.
What does it do?
Well it makes religious health care covered under the health care plans. It seems the main reason they are pushing it is because of the Christian Scientist movement, and they don't believe in traditional medicine, since they believe all illness should be treated by prayer. When they do this, they charge a nominal fee for the prayers, and they want it treated the same as any other medical cost, and to be reimbursable.
WHAT!!!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madra...
That is insane. The language in the bill is so vague that any religious group would be able to claim that their "medical" services are faith based, and thus should be covered under the same language as the Christian Scientists.
There are so many problems with this. The fact that Government or health care plans shouldn't be paying for faith based treatments. The fact that it basically strips health care even further from concentrating on things that ACTUALLY HELP! The fact that it opens up my taxes even further to be paying for crap that doesn't work and has never been shown to work in any kind of rigorous testing.
Anyway, what really got me wondering was why Orrin Hatch was involved? Kennedy and Kerry are just being politicians and supporting the home voters, since Christian Science is based in Boston. But what is Hatch doing? Is the church going to start charging for priesthood blessings? I know that the city creek project is up in cost again, and tithing revenues are likely down with the recession, maybe they are looking for a new revenue stream and figure they can bill medical insurers. Argh, what a joke.
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