There have been quite a few hard fought primaries and arguments between supporters, but nothing has approached the polar opposite characterizations of candidates as this race. Rational discussion has long passed; it’s now entirely about tearing down the other candidate.

I sure hope we do get to the bottom of this after the election, because the political process cannot survive this level of poisoning.

I greatly respected Cherilyn Eager for staying neutral at the Convention. Even more so, when she came on the radio talking about when the Bridgewater campaigned offered to pay her campaign debts if she endorsed them, and she turned it down.

Then she turned around and made the endorsement. I could have let that go. But now I see her being the “puppet” in this article talking about “playing or being played”. Cherilyn has totally abandoned her supposed conservative values by throwing her hat in with a government expanding candidate in hopes that it will politically benefit herself (and financially) in the future.

Now she is buying off on, and spouting out total garbage. This is almost as bad as the campaign e-mail she sent out about Mike Lee, and how she is so wonderful and calling Mike Lee a socialist. It was total garbage, and so is this.

Cherilyn Eager has totally destroyed any chance of a future political run. I would have seriously considered her before the last 3 weeks. now I will actively work against ANY race she makes in the future as hard as I have worked against Senator Bennet, and as hard as i have for a good, strong, conservative candidate, Mike Lee. I have volunteered 100% of my time for 3 months straight to help a great man, Mike Lee, get elected. I can afford to do so. This effort will go against ANY attempt at a political future this woman ever attempts.

I don’t even have time to refute all the nonsense here – from Energy Solutions, to Mike getting Bob Lonsberry fired. Lonsberry’s ratings were #27 out of 32 utah Radio Stations. He came in below AM classical music stations, his contract was up, and he was let go. This was verified by his OWN SON. It had nothing to do with Mike Lee, it had everything to do with that his ratings STUNK.

Too much crap here to refute, but Cherilyn Eager is self-destructing her political future.

Mike Lee represented Energy Solution in one case and one case only and that was when Utah violated the constitutional rights of Energy Solutions. Utah was in the wrong in that one specific instance. I have questioned Mike on this thoroughly and he has never hemmed, hawed or prevaricated when answering me.

Mike’s job as a constitutional attorney is to defend the constitutional rights of his clients, especially when they are being violated. Mike has made it very clear he has no desire to have higher levels of radioactive waste stored in Utah. It has not been reported accurately by many and I am disappointed this fallacy would be reported on RedState.com.

Mike Lee has not misrepresented his income and has been very clear that he does not make $600,000 a year. The form has options, broad ones, and you have to choose the ones your number falls into, even if it’s in the lower rather of that choice.

I have always found Mike to be a man of integrity, courage and strength. Never has he said one thing or done another since I began watching him., listening to him,, speaking with him and questioning him.. I have found him to be a principled conservative who desires bringing America back to constitutional government and Utah in control of her lands once again. He has fought tirelessly for the return of our lands and state sovereignty. He has the endorsements of people like Mark Levin, Carl Wimmer of the Patrick Henry Caucus, 31 Utah Tea Party leaders, the Tea Party Express, Ron Paul, Mark Shurtleff and many, many more. These people, myself included, do not give their endorsements lightly. As I have, they have come to understand that Mike Lee is the answer for Utah. With him he will begin the battle for the Constitution to be returned as the rule of law and the Republic to be fully restored. He knows how to do this and he has the backbone to get it done.

Key word here: “international.” This key word is more important than all the others in this article, yet gets little attention. Should Utah legally be allowed to tell a company with which countries it can and can’t do business? Isn’t this a power reserved specifically for the federal government? This is my understanding of what Mike Lee fought for: legality and constitutionality. It’s what he says he fights for, and this is what he is doing even when a misinformed public construes his actions to be otherwise.

Seriously: what’s the difference between radioactive waste made in Ohio as opposed to France? If we don’t want to be nuclear dumping grounds, we shouldn’t be the dumping grounds for anyone.

Eager, I now have a lot less respect for you either because of your ignorance or your mud-slinging. If you’re going to have something negative to say, at least make it accurate.

Has Cherilyn Eagar come unhinged? I knew when I visited with her last December when it was rumored that Mike Lee would be entering the Utah Senate race that she had less than kind feelings for him. But the above is vile screed. It rivals the “temple mailer” that was unleashed just prior to the state convention in May.

Once the June 22 primary is over, we will need to live together with whomever the victor is as our candidate in the general election. Let’s not tear ourselves apart like ravenous flesh-eating packs of wolves.

I agree with Candice Salima above. Mike Lee is a constitutional attorney, and he defends constitutional rights wherever they need to be defended. Its a matter of principle to defend principles in a balanced manner, and not just when it is convenient. A lot of Americans hated John Adams when he defended the British soldiers who had been unjustly condemned in the so-called Boston Massacre. He was correct to defend their rights, and Mike Lee has been equally correct to defend the constitutional rights of the unpopular.

I still hold out hope that Cherilyn Eagar will run against and defeat Orrin Hatch in two years, but right now, I am expecting an apology from her first.

“Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has received thousands of dollars over the last several years from EnergySolutions. In addition, his state recently voted to ban foreign waste, so he needed to find a new place to park it. Utah was the “lucky” winner.”

So, South Carolina has the constitutional right to ban the importation for foreign waste, but Utah does not.

If elected, Mike Lee will represent the interests of Energy Solutions. He will not represent the citizens of Utah or their interests.

The Lee supporters (and likely campaign staffers) commenting scare me as they either don’t understand or have the courage to comment on the implications of Bob Lonsberry being fired, which Cherilyn Eagar so openly raises in her post above.

This is very real, frightening and blatant abuse of the 1st Amendment and should leave readers of this post in disgust. The corrupted influence on KNRS along with all of the other truths/facts mentioned in Cherilyn’s opinion piece demonstrate just exactly how disdainful politics have become and how wrongly influential Washington insiders have been here in Utah especially in association with Mike Lee.

If Bob Lonsberry was in fact fired because he openly supports Tim Bridgewater, and KNRS’s largest advertiser is ES, a Company openly in alignment with Mike Lee and who pours big $$ into the campaign coffers of anyone willing to promote its and their own monetary interests (i.e., Jim DeMint) as well as offered Tim Bridgewater campaign finance support just this past week right before the primary, all of the vicious, uncorroborated arguments are MOOT.

Yes, speckk, Utah and its residents have the right to say “HELL NO” to being a nuclear waste dumping ground especially if negligence can be substantiated and proven and should be pushing back hard on the Federal government on this matter. Businesses/capitalism and the federal government thrive on the same thing: being continually checked and balanced by the will of the majority, which we must hope fosters good conscience when managing profit and good legislation that benefits ALL Americans. I have to believe that is how the Founding Fathers meant it to be.

You can agree or disagree with Cherilyn Eagar on issues and policies, and that’s your right. But, the facts are the facts…so make sure you fact check before slamming the messenger.

One fact I can attest to is Cherilyn Eagar unlike so many of today’s politicians has the guts to speak the truth regardless of her future in politics, something I wish more candidates and politicians in Utah and nationwide could include on their resumes.

I guess someone figured that she would sit there and watch as Jim DeMint, Redstate.com, Freedomworks and Common Sense Issues try to ruin Tim Bridgewater with unfounded rumors and smear tactics.

Cherilyn would take on the world if she thought it would help conservative causes.

Cherilyn is correct in her comments. Pick at a word here or there, but this isn’t a theory.

How many ads have EnergySolutions sent to state delegates and likely primary voters. If it was just Bob Bennett they wanted to protect the ads would have stopped with the convention.

Don’t forget Club for Growth as well. They have spent well over a hundred thousand on this race. According to OpenSecrets, they are Jim Demint’s largest single donor.

http://utahsrepresentatives.com/2010/06/18/fact-checking-cherilyn-eagars-redstate-com-post/

Once upon a time, I respected your conservative blog. Now Red State blasts unfounded rumors about candidates (like Tim Bridgewater funding drug cartels, WTH?) Guess, this site has officially become the “Nat’l Inquirer” of conservatives. Please post when Jim DeMint discovers or fathers aliens…

Utah has early voting for this primary. After reading Ms. Eagar’s comments, I’ve been motivated to go vote right now and not wait for Tuesday. I’m voting for Mike Lee. Good man.

Cherilyn, for being a principled candidate, you can fling mud with the best of them! I gained a respect for you that I hadn’t had before when you stood by principles and refused Tim’s offer at the convention. I was even willing to consider you as a possibility in the future, but that has changed now. Supporting Tim is one thing, but going after Mike with your phony innuendos via e-mails, phone calls, and now this? Not only will I never support you, but I will fight against you any way possible!

This is not the first tiem Lonsberry has been fired and it won’t be the last. Lonsberry is a liability to the station as his comments are overboard on many issues & have caused law suits for himself & for the station. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/73215/cc-lonsberry-face-suit-over-shooting-death-comment?ref=search
http://www.nativecanadian.ca/Native_Reflections/Lonsberry/Lonsberryb.htm

Mike Lee represented the state defending our rights to NOT take NUCLEAR waste into our state. He defended ES on ONE case in regards to their Constitutional rights to continue taking Class A LOW LEVEL waste (that the state has allowed them to store for nearly 20 years now without any adverse effects) because it has already been allowed & crosses state lines it falls under the FEDERAL jurisdiction, not the state’s. There is a HUGE difference between NUCLEAR waste & LOW LEVEL waste. The exit sign in my salon emits too much to be stored in the ES facility yet people walk under it every day and don’t worry about it. I doubt if they would care if I got it from Italy or China or Utah.

Mike has NEVER flip-flopped on these two issues. He is AGAINST bringing NUCLEAR waste to Utah. He is FOR Constitutional rights of a company who stores LOW LEVEL waste in Utah.

than anything that Energy Solutions is involved with.