From Deseret News archives:
Anti-immigration hard-liners fare poorly in St. George
But on Tuesday, Nickle was one of three candidates endorsed by anti-illegal immigration groups who lost the election. The three candidates who did win didn't have those endorsements, but they did have the nod of the local business community.
According to Immigration2007.org, a national immigration policy group, St. George wasn't the only local race across the country in which candidates who ran on platforms based on cracking down on illegal immigration lost.
Simon Rosenberg, with Immigration2007.org, went so far as to call using illegal immigration as a wedge "a catastrophic strategy" for some Republican candidates.
"The Republican Party has been more concerned with playing politics than with solving the problem," he said. In the process, candidates have spent huge amounts of money and alienated the fast-growing Hispanic electorate, he said.
She pointed to ads in the days leading up to the election, paid for by the three winning candidates, that focused on illegal immigration.
"If they had not, I think the election would have come out differently," she said.
Before the primary, she said that many of the candidates wouldn't talk about the issue at all. When asked about it, she said, they'd call it a federal issue.
Jon Pike, who garnered the most votes in Tuesday's election, said the issue of illegal immigration "definitely had an impact" on voters.
"We did some research and talked to people and found out that this was the most burning issue on the minds of the people we knew would actually get out and vote," Pike said. "I do believe the citizens were telling us that they wanted some things to change."
Pike said he adjusted his campaign strategy to reflect his commitment to be more proactive in addressing the illegal immigration issue in Washington County.
"I don't know if we would have pulled it off if we didn't come out with a strong, responsible, reasonable and legal plan to address it," he said. "We definitely couldn't leave it out or we wouldn't be here today."
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