Being a challenger to Senator Bennett has some daunting aspects.Bennett will claim he will single handedly preserve the Shuttle replacement program, ARES/Constellation, which President Obama is trying to discontinue! He will claim we lose this important space program Utah loses 2000 jobs and the $129,000,000 ATK spends in Utah annually will be significantly reduced; economic disaster! There will be claims; only Bennett has the gas to save this program because ultimately the Congress sets the Nation's budget inspite of the President. Bennett is on Appropriations which is how he saved the D5 Life Extension funding for Bacchus over five years ago. Without that funding Bacchus would have shut down. His opponents can pontificate all they want about earmarks, the fact is w/o Bennett this State is in big trouble. A freshman Senator would hardly be noticed let alone given any "plum" assignments. Bennett can work both sides of the aisle, so it doesn't matter who is in power.
So we need to help our challengers and be sensitive to the daunting task they have ahead of them.
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