I'm Ready to Fully Support Doug Owen's Run For Congress

     I just heard that Doug Owens will be running against Mia Love for Utah's 4th district.  I hate to be so lock & step partisan, but you can count me IN!
     I don't need much convincing when it comes to the son of Rep.Wayne Owens, and here's a personal story that might shed light on why I not only supported and admired him, but I even worked on his campaign in his unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat, way back when.
     I had recently returned to Utah from Taiwan with my wife who I had met while teaching English there. She had legally immigrated, and believe me, that wasn't easy.  (If she had been so much as Diabetic or had been missing a finger they would have turned her down.)  Putting together that folder of papers for immigration was quite literally a part time job for me, for several months prior to returning to Utah with my (now pregnant) wife.
     And they lost it!  The last I ever saw of that folder was when we turned it in at LAX which was our first U.S. stop before continuing on to Salt Lake City.  We waited and waited for the green-card that was supposed to be mailed to us, but it never arrived, and when I started investigating, I realized the seriousness of our predicament.  It didn't matter who I called, it was gone.  That folder which represented months and months of work was missing, and there was really nothing I could do about it.
     What it meant was that they could have picked her up at any time and sent her back to Taiwan.  I was getting frantic and wasn't sure where to turn.  My phone calls to immigration were getting me nowhere except to alert them of her being illegally in the U.S. I started calling my representatives.  Admittedly an act of youthful indiscretion, but I was running out of options.
     As you can imagine, I was pretty much ignored by the lot of them, but there was one office that did return my call.  It was Wayne Owens office, and though I never spoke to him directly, his secretary called back a day later to tell me the green-card was on it's way!      
     Is it a lesson in the power of our policy makers?  Perhaps, but when his son Doug Owens says he's running on a platform of 'getting things done,' I'm inclined to believe him.