Hatch In Bed With Pfizer

By Alan Mortensen
amort@dkolaw.com
(801) 556-6867

Disclaimer: This presentation has not been approved by Dan Liljenquist or the Dan Liljenquist
for Senate Campaign, nor the law firm of Dewsnup, King & Olsen. Any errors in this
presentation are my errors and not those of Dan or his campaign staff.
Please call me with any questions.

While you may be on the other
side of the BYU/Utah Rivalry, it is
undisputed that both the UofU and
BYU are great assets and
employers for the State of Utah

[Letter from Professor Tom
Morgan to George Washington
University law faculty, January
12, 1998]

 For those of you who are unfamiliar with BYU, it is the flagship
university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . .
Neither [my wife] nor I are members of the LDS Church, but as
embodied in its university and the warmth of its members' acceptance
of us, we have found it to represent a remarkable testament to God's
work on earth. Indeed, Brigham Young University is one of the rare
remaining examples of what all religiously affiliated universities once
aspired to be--an institution that sees its students as persons of
infinite worth and believes that their education for faithful lives
represents the world's best hope for a humane and productive future.
The educational program and student experience at BYU [are] built
around such core values.

Gordon B. Hinckley
 President Gordon B. Hinckley
described the unique features of BYU
in a devotional, stating that he hoped
the students “[f]eel as much at home
in the house of the Lord as they feel in
the classrooms of this university.
When all is said and done, it is not this
elaborate campus that really counts. It
is the faculty who teach you, who lead
you, who encourage you, who help you
find your way as you go forward with
your studies. This . . . is an element of
the singular BYU experience. [Gordon
B. Hinckley, "The BYU Experience,"
BYU Devotional, November 4, 1997, p.
3]

Economic and Society Benefits of
BYU to the State of Utah
1. 4,016 full time employees
2 29,884 undergraduate students
3. Rankings
-#1 Yield: Accepted students who enroll U.S.News & World
Report #1 Accounting program, according to recruiters
Wall Street Journal
-#1 Business: Return on tuition, private school Bloomberg
Businessweek
-#3 Undergraduate accountancy program U.S.News & World
Report #3 Undergraduate accountancy program Public
Accounting Report
-#3 Master's of Accountancy program Public Accounting
Report #4 Undergraduate entrepreneurship Entrepreneur
-#4 Graduates with least debt U.S.News & World Report
-#4 Graduate entrepreneurship Entrepreneur
-#5 Top public relations program PR Week Magazine

Orrin Hatch is an “Honored
Alumni” from BYU

Hatch, like many of
us, claims that BYU
helped him decide
to go on a mission.
“My experience at BYU
helped me decide to go on
a mission, which I
wouldn’t trade for
anything – including
being a senator. It gave
me an additional moral
compass that I think has
helped me throughout my
whole life.”

Hatch met his wife
at BYU and was the
“summer student
body president.”

Orrin Hatch
claims to be one
of the best
student body
presidents BYU
has ever had.

BYU’s law school has named a Trial
Lawyer Lecturer Series after Orrin
Hatch

Senator Hatch has used BYU for
political venues to promote his
political career

Hatch has appeared at BYU with
the world’s famous billionaires

Orrin Hatch’s BYU education and
service in the Senate has served him
well as he is now a multi-millionaire

Orrin Hatch
is worth over
$4,000,000

Orrin Hatch has called BYU “the
greatest university in the world.”*

*I actually agree with him on this one

 For years, Orrin Hatch has “Serving Utah’s families and
claimed that he uses his taxpayers is my first responsibility
seniority, influence, and and my greatest privilege. Every day I
leadership to protect Utah’s fight for the values of individual
constituency and liberty and personal responsibility
institutions, including Hill that are central to the way of life
Utahans hold dear.”
Air Force Base, BYU and the http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index
LDS Church. .cfm/focusonutah

In fact he told BYU
students he ran for
President in 2000 to
try and decrease
discrimination against
Mormons
I ran for president “to decrease
discrimination against the
members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

Does Senator Hatch truly believe that “serving Utah’s
families and taxpayers is his first responsibility and his
greatest privilege” including BYU and the LDS Church and
its employees, students and members or does he use his
position of privilege to serve he and his family?

It has long been known that:
 “the pharmaceutical industry
that long has benefitted from
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch’s legislative
efforts has directed large sums
of money to a charity he helped
found — and still raises money
for — while also hiring the
Republican lawmaker’s son as a
lobbyist.”

www.washingtontimes.com/ne
ws/2009/mar/2/the-fog-of-
congressional-
transparency/?page=all

Pfizer is one of Hatch’s favorite
institutions.

 Orrin Hatch has
accepted
hundreds of
thousands of
dollars from
Pfizer over the
years including
$25,300 this year
alone, secon
d only to
President
Barack
Obama.
http://www.ope
nsecrets.org/org
s/recips.php?cyc
le=2012&id=D00
0000138

 Orrin Hatch’s son Scott is/has been a
lobbyist for Pfizer. "Prescription Drugs:
A Look at Contributions from Pfizer &
Pharmacia," Open Secrets.org, July
18, 2002.
 "Scott is the son of Senator Orrin
Hatch. These relationships ensure that
the pharmaceutical industry has the
attention and sympathy of ears in
Washington. Imagine that! In the year
2000, President George W. Bush
received $477,633.00, while senator
Majority Leader Bill Frist (Republican
TN) got $116,457.00 and Senator Orrin
Hatch (Republican UT)
$399,874.00, etc.55 Politicians in favor of
the pharmaceutical industry (i.e. voting
for their interest) received more money
than those voting against them, of
course."
- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd
Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden
Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug
Cartel

Pfizer lists Orrin Hatch on
its webpage as a friend of
Pfizer, someone who will
represent Pfizer’s “voice”
and have “impact” upon
Pfizer’s success.
http://www.pfizerelectio
ncenter.com/voter-
resources/official/53352/
C/UT/Orrin/Hatch

 So why does it matter to Utahans that Orrin Hatch and
his family have formed a cottage industry around
Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies? Because
while Hatch professes that “serving Utah’s families and
taxpayers is his first responsibility and my greatest
privilege” Pfizer, which has no manufacturing presence
in Utah…

 …stole from Brigham Young University trade
secrets worth up to $9.7 billion to BYU and
several billion dollars in punitive damages
that would have gone to BYU and the State
of Utah’s Education Funds pursuant to
Utah’s punitive damage statute*…

*Utah Code Annotated Sec. 78B-8-201 (3): half of all
punitive damages go to the State of Utah.

 …forcing BYU to sue Pfizer
and settle for a pennies on
the dollar, depriving
BYU, the LDS Church and
the State of Utah of
billions of dollars…

 …that BYU, the LDS Church could have used for
educating its members and sending out humanitarian
aid world wide and providing much needed funds for
Utah’s education system. This trade secret stealing
made Pfizer up to $80.5 billion…
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/health/pfizer-
settles-byu-lawsuit-over-development-of-
celebrex.html),

So, when faced with the choice of standing up for his
Utah Constituency, Utah’s treasury, BYU and the LDS
Church, or having Pfizer still continue to line his family’s
pockets, what did Hatch do?

Vs.

Instead using his
influence, leaders
hip and seniority
to protect Utah’s
constituency and
institutions, includ
ing two of Utah’s
largest employers
(BYU/LDS
Church, both of
which he belongs
to), and the State
of Utah’s treasury…

…Hatch used his influence with his old friend Pfizer* to
retain Orrin Hatch’s son Brent Hatch to defend Pfizer in the
lawsuit by BYU and try to defeat BYU’s Claim of Pfizer
stealing trade secrets from BYU!!!

*I have no problem that Pfizer hired counsel to defend
itself against BYU’s claims. That is how the legal system
works and it works well. I do have a problem that Orrin
Hatch’s son was the one selected by Pfizer especially
given the ties between the Hatch family and Pfizer and
Hatch’s obligation to do what is best for Utah, not for he
and his family’s pocketbooks.

The cronyism and nepotism in Hatch’s Family
with the pharmacitical industry at the expense of
Utah citizens and educational and religious
institutions confirms why Orrin Hatch is willing to
spend more than $8 million to beat Dan
Liljenquist and why companies like Pfizer gave
Hatch so much money to beat Dan Liljenquist. I
hope it gives you pause on who to vote for as
between Dan Liljenquist and Orrin Hatch.

Apart from eliminating the self-serving actions of Orrin Hatch, why
would a vote for Dan Liljenquist instead of Orrin Hatch make a
difference to Utah?

Dan has been running businesses
not taking hand outs from them.
 Dan’s Business Experience is very
similar to Mitt Romney, as he
worked for Romney at Bain

Before starting his final year of law school, he interviewed with Bain &
Company. Out of 250 applicants from the University of Chicago Business
and Law Schools, only he was chosen from the law school.

After joining Bain, he moved with his wife Brooke to Dallas, Texas where he
worked for the global management consulting firm as a strategy consultant
from 2001 to 2003.

Dan is an economic genius
 Born to Dr. John E Liljenquist and Colleen Redford
Liljenquist, he spent most of his childhood in Idaho
Falls. After a football injury sidelined him as a high
school junior, his attention turned to politics. He
served as the student body president of his senior
class at Skyline High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
 He attended Brigham Young University (BYU) on a
one-year renewable scholarship with a minimum
3.9 GPA required. Liljenquist was able to renew his
scholarship annually and in 1998, graduated magna
cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
After graduation, he attended the University of
Chicago Law School graduating with his Juris
Doctorate in 2001.
 Liljenquist spent the summer between his first and
second years of law school interning for the
Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship. He
provided free law help as well as business
consulting aimed at helping fledgling businesses
get off the ground.
 Between his second and third year, he interned for
Kirkland & Ellis where Ken Starr was the lead
counsel

Dan has created jobs in Utah in the
private sector.

 In 2006, he joined FOCUS Services, LLC, a telemarketing
firm based in Roy, Utah, and served as its president and
chief operating officer until January of 2011. A privately
owned call center founded in 1995 with 2 employees, it now
has just under 1500 employees working in 7 facilities
around the world.

Dan will fight for term limits and
will impose them on himself to
prevent himself from becoming a
career politician like Orrin Hatch.
 http://www.danforutah.com/issues/

Dan is going to live in Utah and
commute to Washington DC so he
avoids Potomac Fever

Entitlement Reform
 Dan is running ON entitlement
reform, not away from it. Medicaid and
other welfare programs should be pushed
back to the states. If we are going to have a
welfare program at all, it should
administered at a state level. Unlike
Medicaid, which is a pure entitlement
program, Social Security and Medicare are
programs that must be reformed while
honoring our commitments to those who
have paid into the system for decades and
who have planned their future around
them. We must keep our promises to our
seniors while creating a different deal for
those who still have time to adjust.
http://www.danforutah.com/issues/

Cut, Cap and Balance
 Dan is a vocal supporter of cut, cap and balance. We
must cut spending, cap the growth and balance the
budget. To achieve that balance, we MUST tackle
entitlements in real and substantive ways.

Balanced Budget Amendment
 Dan is also in favor of and will advocate for a balanced
budget amendment but simply balancing the budget
while “raising revenues” (which means tax increases)
is not enough. We must also cut the spending and curb
the rate of that spending.

Medicaid Reform
 Watching a dramatic increase in Medicaid costs –
from 9% of the state budget in 2001 to almost 20%
in the 2011 budget and projected to be at least 36%
by 2020 – it was painfully obvious that Medicaid’s
path was simply unsustainable. Dan spent a full
year working to bring all parties to the table and
carefully crafted a bill that would fundamentally
restructure the Medicaid program in Utah. Under
his guidance, Utah became the first state in the
nation to cap Medicaid growth and tie it to the
growth of the state budget. It fundamentally
reformed the payment structure for Medicaid in
Utah, moving to a capitated model while
requiring evidence-based care. Utah is ready for
the Paul Ryan plan! Dan’s bill passed both the
House and Senate without a single dissenting
vote. He has been recognized nationally for his
work on these reforms as well.

IMMIGRATION
 The federal government has abdicated its
responsibility with respect to immigration. It meddles
in many areas it should not be and completely ignores
one of the most critical areas of its responsibility. We
must secure our borders and enforce our laws. Dan
supports the protection of identities through the use
of E-verify. He also believes we need to open up legal
immigration in efficient, sensible ways.

NATIONAL DEFENSE
 The biggest threat to our national security is that we
borrow every penny of our defense spending. The
federal government is now cutting defense by 12%
while at the same time, the federal budget is growing
by 24%. Defense is another core function of the
federal government and must be a priority, but we
must also use a critical eye when evaluating
waste, fraud and abuse in defense spending.

STRENGTHEN THE FAMILY
 We must value and protect the
traditional family. Professor Robert
P George of Princeton once said that
the family is the “original and best
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.” An increased, inter-
generational dependence on the 185
federal welfare programs is
destroying the economic necessity
of the family as we have known it for
thousands of years.

To Learn More of What Dan Liljenquist stands for, watch his
convention speech at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCwEgAWy_0k&feature=relat
ed
go to http://www.danforutah.com/issues/
and see part II of this Power Point

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