Subject: GLUD launches "No On Young" campaign
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 22:59:00 -0500

NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release

Sunday, January 14, 1996

Contact: Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats
 Post Office Box 11311
 Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0311
 (801)238-2526
 (800)648-9996 outside the Salt Lake City calling area
 Internet: [email-masked]
 World Wide Web: http://members.aol.com/glud/

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GLUD launches "No On Young" campaign

SALT LAKE CITY - Embattled Utah Third District Court Judge David S. Young
will face opposition if he seeks a judicial-retention election this year
according to leaders of the political-action committee Gay and Lesbian Utah
Democratsx.

GLUDx leaders launched today the group's effort to encourage voters in the
judicial district that comprises Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties to
vote against Young's likely retention-election bid in November. The group
announced its plan after Young's decision in 1994 to reduce the sentence of
David Thacker who admitted to killing Douglas Koehler, a 31-year-old gay Salt
Lake City business man on Aug. 21, 1993. Young also made decisions which
prompted women's advocacy groups to join GLUD in calling for his
investigation and removal from office.

"Judge Young's decisions received almost universal outrage from Utahns and
others throughout the United States," GLUD Founder David Nelson said. "Judges
are trusted to reflect the values of the communities in which they serve. By
sentencing an admitted killer to less than six years, as he did with David
Thacker, Judge Young showed that he can't be trusted with our community
values."

GLUD is the state's largest and most powerful political-action committee that
serves as a campaign resource, legislative lobby and political-party caucus
for bisexual, gay and lesbian people, and their families and friends. For
more information about GLUD, write to Post Office Box 11311, Salt Lake City,
Utah 84147-0311 or on the Internet at [email-masked], call (801)238-2526 or
(800)648-9996, or visit the group's World Wide Web site at
http://members.aol.com/glud/.