A Tribute To My Dad, Ed Mayne (blog post)
This is the first part of the video. Over the next few weeks we will post remaining tribute videos including an amazing interview tribute created by Bonneville.
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Deseret News: Women picked to fill 2 legislative vacancies
In Senate District 5, which comprises Kearns, West Valley City and Taylorsville, delegates selected Karen Mayne to fill the position of her late husband, Ed Mayne. She ran unopposed.
The new legislators will be sworn in before the start of the 2008 Legislature session begins in January.
Mayne, the only candidate seeking the Senate District 5 seat, vowed to carry on her husband’s legacy.
“My husband and I always worked as a team to take care of this district,” she said Wednesday. “This is just a natural thing for me, and my delegates feel the same.”
Mayne plans to focus on west-side issues, including better roads, more environmental protection and senior citizen care, she said. Mobile home issues are also important to her constituents, she said.
“We’re going to take care of our Senate district,” she said. (read full article)
Salt Lake Tribune: Democratic delegates elect Becker, Mayne replacements
Karen Mayne was also selected to fill the Utah Senate seat that had been held by her husband, the late Sen. Ed Mayne, who died earlier this month of lung cancer. Karen Mayne was unopposed. (read full article)
Salt Lake Tribune: Center to be renamed for Ed Mayne
Kearns already has a “Mayne” street. Now the west-side suburb will get a Mayne senior center, too.
The Salt Lake County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the Kearns Senior Center after Ed Mayne, the late Democratic union boss and West Valley City state senator who fought to get the building built.
“It is by far the least we could do for Eddie and what he has done for the community,” said Republican Councilman Michael Jensen, who represents the county’s western fringe. “He was a great man who did a ton for the west side of Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.” (full article)
Deseret News: Salt Lake County names center after Mayne
County officials said the senior center, located at 4850 W. 4715 South, likely would not have been built without his leadership. (full article)
Deseret News: Mayne mourned on both sides of the aisle By Frank Pignanelli & LaVarr Webb
Excerpt Pignanelli: The media reports detailing Ed Mayne’s life focused on his legislative and labor movement achievements, which were impressive. But Ed was more than just an officeholder or advocate. He played numerous roles: conscience to Utah politicians and employers; papa bear to the Democratic Party while overseeing its resurrection in the mid-1980s; mentoring numerous young politicos (including Randy Horiuchi, Blaze Wharton, Kelly Atkinson, Janet Rose, Grant Protzman, Kurt Oscarson, Gene Davis, Dave Spatafore, Wayne Holland, D’Arcy Dixon and me); and playing peacemaker during our incessant fractional squabbles. He and his incredible wife, Karen, set the standard of coequal political partners who loved and respected each other-long before Bill and Hillary were known. No one was prouder of his children. But we gravitated to Ed for deeper causes.
Excerpt Webb: Ed Mayne clearly exemplified those two traits. I was obviously not in his circle of friends, but I interacted with him on many occasions and always found him to be warm, gracious, genuine and willing to listen.
Over the years I have dealt with many people of wealth and power. Some of them were unhappy and miserable.
A great lesson of Mayne’s full, rich and happy life is something we all know, but too often forget in our busy, try-to-get-ahead world. It is that in the end what really matters, what is most important, is relationships. Family. Friends. Love. Caring. Service. The simple secrets to a happy and fulfilling life.
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Many of you know my brother, Ed Mayne, as a great statesman, senator and AFL-CIO leader. These wonderful qualities began many years ago.
I have always loved Ed’s big, warm hands and his kind and gentle eyes. Ed was the oldest of four children and then he had three little sisters. He would do anything to protect and watch over us all, and through the years that remained the same. He taught us so much as a family: how to stay unified, to help others, to be kind.
I was humbled that even through his fight with cancer and during his chemo treatments his conversations were never about himself. His determination to make sure that others were being taken care of, from senior citizens to children and animals, never ended. He loved his family and the people of this great state. He was a man of honor who found more joy in giving to others than anything he could ever give to himself. We have all been truly blessed to call him family, brother and friend.
I know in my heart we will all feel his big, warm hands in ours as he continues to watch over us, with his kind and gentle eyes, from heaven. Knowing my brother, he will say, “I have a great view to do just that.”
Shauna Petersen
Taylorsville
Salt Lake Tribune Public Forum Letter
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In friendship and deep appreciation, the family of Senator Ed Mayne would like to extend a sincere thank you for the love and support shown to them the past several months. We so appreciate the support given to Ed throughout the years he had the opportunity of representing this great community.
As a family, we are committed to continuing his legacy of good works and dedicated service to his constituents.
Sincerely,
Karen Mayne
Paul and Jana Mayne
Jamie and Trever Jennings
Red and Ruth Mayne
Connie and Craig Webb
Shauna and Mike Petersen
Terry Glover
Phil and Barbara Hibler
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What a beautiful day and an honor to Ed Mayne and the work he’s done. THANK YOU so much to all the people who have shown support over the last few days in making this a special memorial to a great man.
Front Page of the Salt Lake Tribune: Mayne hailed as champion of underprivileged - By Glen Warchol
excerpts: Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. remembered working with Mayne in the last year to find ways of funding better pay for teachers and health care for the poor.
“He will be remembered for bringing hope and healing to every corner of this state,” Huntsman told a few hundred mourners, including Republican U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, and dozens of state and local office holders.But the most touching memories were of a man with a “heart so big,” who loved his family, fast food, poker, ducks on the wing and a golden retriever named Chance.
Mayne’s son Paul recited his father’s favorite prayer: “Bless the unemployed that they find work. Bless the homeless that they find shelter. And bless the children.”
Mayne was born in Magna in 1945 and graduated from Granger High School. He worked in Kennecott Copper’s Bingham Canyon mine. Mayne became active in the local chapter of the United Steel Workers of America and was elected president in 1977. At the age of 32, he became the leader of Utah’s AFL-CIO…Paul Mayne said his father loved Christmas to the point he chose Christmas songs as cell phone ring tones and played holiday music in his car year around. Mayne was never happier than in his duck blind in the wetlands near Salt Lake International Airport.
“My father lived a great life, and he loved his life,” Paul Mayne said. (full article)
Deseret News: Ed Mayne’s magnanimity spotlighted at his funeral by Lisa Riley Roche
WEST VALLEY CITY — Ed Mayne always looked out for the little guy, a quality his family and friends recalled Friday at services for the late state senator and longtime labor leader.
“My dad was a man of the people,” Mayne’s son, Paul, told the nearly 1,000 people including political and union leaders gathered in the lofty hall of West Valley’s Cultural Celebration Center.
The prayers of the AFL-CIO president and influential Democrat always ended with a special blessing for the unemployed, the homeless and others in need, Paul said, describing his father as a man who also enjoyed a trip to Wendover to play the slot machines.
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican, praised Mayne for focusing as a lawmaker on issues aimed at lifting, promoting, healing and offering hope “to the corners of the community that need it most.”
Better known as “Eddie,” Mayne, 62, died of cancer Sunday at his West Valley home, surrounded by his family. He had served as a state senator since 1994 and was assistant minority whip.
Salt Lake County Councilman Randy Horiuchi said that while both he and Mayne liked to exaggerate, the simple truth is that “Ed Mayne did more for everyday Utahns than any public official in the history of the state.”
In addition to the legislation and labor initiatives that Mayne was directly involved in, Horiuchi said the “Great Oz” was often instrumental behind the scenes in getting projects funded, such as a senior center in Kearns.
Horiuchi, too, said that Mayne had a special touch with those who most needed help. “He was their hero.”
Another Democrat, Blaze Wharton, a former state senator who first met Mayne 30 years ago, said he “never disregarded or dismissed anyone” and earned the respect and even the affection of the state’s dominant GOP.
And Wharton said that although he counted their close relationship as one of the most important in his life, it was not unique. He said many of the men and women in the audience — some in business suits, some in work clothes — shared the same relationship with Mayne.
Mayne’s daughter, Jamie Jennings, tearfully recited the lyrics to her father’s favorite song, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” and said he was always willing to help someone out. “Nothing was too much for him. … He always did it with open arms.”
Paul, too, had to repeatedly wipe away tears as he spoke. He said while his father was seen publicly as a tough negotiator and politician, “when he came home and the cowboy boots came off, he was a real softy.”
A huge fan of the Christmas season, Mayne kept a holiday ringtone on his cell phone throughout the year. He loved to eat, Paul said, and would often take family and friends on fast-food runs that included multiple stops.
Sports were how Mayne relaxed, Paul said, ranging from fantasy football to duck hunting with his beloved golden retriever dogs. At the end, Paul said, his father told him to “look down the third-base line. I’ll always be there.”
Mayne was buried at Valley View Memorial Park in West Valley City. A fund-raiser intended to benefit his family as well as other cancer patients will be held Tuesday and will include tributes from Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and others.
Hatch was among the public officials present Friday, along with the only Democrat in Utah’s congressional delegation, Rep. Jim Matheson, and many current and former state lawmakers. (full article)
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