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By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

Dems Lose Big: Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast, Too Left (Mike Zahara) – All props to author Terry McMillan, but if you’ve been ‘Waiting to Exhale’; Tuesday’s Democratic losses gave Dems the opportunity to adjust and become much more realistic.

What East Coast Results Might Hold for Titus, Reid (Las Vegas Sun) Should Nevada’s two vulnerable Democrats worry about the parallels between their party’s mixed results in this year’s races, and their own in 2010?

Election Day Storyline: The Citizen Revolution Has Begun! (Wayne Allyn Root) – What a night! I cheered and celebrated watching Republicans sweep the Virginia and New Jersey Governor’s races. Not because I’m a Republican – I’m not anymore. But this was NOT a Republican victory. It was a victory for the Tea Party patriots.

Memo to Nevada Republicans: Don’t Belittle Harry Reid (Mark Noonan) – The other day I happened to have the TV on for a moment and on comes the thing we all watch TV for: a Harry Reid campaign ad. It was a stunning admission of political weakness on the part of Reid. What Reid is trying to do with the ad is get us to know some Reid other than the long-standing political barnacle we all want replaced next year.

Commissioners Criticize Gibbons for State Homeland Security Reorganization (Nevada News Bureau) – Members of the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security today criticized the decision by Gov. Jim Gibbons to merge the homeland security program with the Department of Public Safety, saying the critical mission of the program has been diminished with the move.

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

MUTH’S TRUTHS

• One of the big new sayings this year is “too big to fail.” But perhaps considering Obama’s lack of real world experience for the job of POTUS, the operative phrase now should be “too small to succeed.”
• On Tuesday, voters in Virginia and New Jersey went to the polls to cast their votes. Twenty-two candidates in Virginia and twenty-two candidates in New Jersey who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge won in their respective offices. Hello, Nevada Republican candidates. Are you paying attention?
• New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg barely won re-election Monday despite spending a whopping $100 million on his campaign. Political Diary’s John Fund reports that “One New Yorker told me that Bloomberg TV ads were so omnipresent he felt like he was constantly hearing from Big Brother.” In other words, Harry Reid could possibly raise so much money to run so many ads in Nevada next year that he actually could overdo it and advertise himself right out of a job. Another positive development for Nevada Republicans.
• But the most important development out of Tuesday’s GOP victories was the lower turnout of young voters and black voters who carried Barack Obama to victory last year, as well as the fact that independents swung back toward the Republicans. If such results manifest themselves next year in Nevada, Harry Reid and Dina Titus have LOT to be worried about despite that big voter registration advantage the D’s currently enjoy (the registration advantage was even bigger in New Jersey, by the way). It’s turnout, turnout, turnout.
• On Monday, Republican Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio had this to say about a possible special session of the Legislature to deal with continuing revenue shortfalls: “Nobody is going to want to come out and talk about raising taxes.” Of course, this is the same Bill Raggio who famously said in his 2008 primary race: “This is not the time to start talking about raising taxes. It is something that we can’t even consider.” That was just a couple months before Sen. Raggio began laying the groundwork for over a billion dollars worth of higher taxes earlier this year. So, um, grab your wallets!
• Rob Lauer, Republican congressional candidate in the 3rd district, is touting online survey results from the conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute website as proof that he is in a “dead heat” with incumbent Democrat Rep. Dina Titus. A Lauer press release says the poll shows he’s “within striking distance of Titus with 30% of the vote; while she carries only 33%” and that this means “Lauer’s message is resonating with voters.” Oh, puh-lease. It’s an unscientific online survey of NPRI readers, not voters in the Third Congressional District. Lauer’s campaign should be embarrassed for putting out this flapdoodle.
• Yes, indeed, birds of a feather do flock together. Robert “Hollow Head” Holloway and Nathan “Li’l Nate” Taylor are now joined at the e-hip, a dufus duo rivaled only by Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels in “Dumb and Dumber.” Holloway wrote a whiny screed yesterday maintaining that neither he nor his son were trying to become GOP convention delegates in ’08, and Li’l Nate actually published it on his blog that no one reads. A moron-marriage made in heaven.

OTHER NEWS

• Knapp: ABC’s Nightline is on Ensign’s case
• Roll Call: Koop Acknowledges Writing Letter to Reid
• Argus Leader: Reid trying to avoid Daschle’s fate
• LVBP: Kasich speech brings ring of truth
• LV Weekly: Las Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance
• Gentry: Med Board Pres: Enough is Enough!
• NN&V: Angle Says Reid Building Financial House of Cards
• Ralston: GOP in disarray won’t assure Dems an easy ride here in 2010
• NN&V: Bridges for Congress Website Launched
• NNB: Martinovich Named VP of Transportation Association
• NNB: Gibbons to Present Two “Gold Star” License Plates
• Ralston: Campaign memo: Nevada is next state to show GOP stripes

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

TUBE TIPS

Sam Shad’s guest on today’s Nevada Newsmakers program will be, Anthony Marnell III, Chairman and CEO, M Resort Spa and Casino. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas.

KIDS HAPPY HOUR & DECK PARTY

Citizen Outreach Foundation is hosting our first-ever Kids Happy Hour & Deck Party on November 10th from 5 to 7 pm at Joe’s Crab Shack in Green Valley.

Tuesday nights are Kids Night at Joe’s, so kids eat for $2! Better yet, parents have the opportunity to enjoy cheap drink specials, including $3 margaritas and $2 mixed drinks!

Joe’s is roping off a special section for us on their large deck, so you’ll be able to keep a watchful eye out while the kids play on the on-site playground while sitting back and enjoying adult conversation. We are even bringing in a clown to provide entertainment for the little ones!

Please RSVP to karri@citizenoutreach.com with your name and the number in your family that will be attending. We need to know how much of the deck Joe’s needs for rope off for our event.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

• “National pundit Stu Rothenberg has moved Nevada into a ‘toss-up’ for next year, moving the race from ‘narrow advantage for the incumbent party.’ Rothenberg nicely distills the race thusly: ‘The GOP race is still a mess, but so are Reid’s poll numbers.’ And this: ‘Insiders think Sue Lowden has the greatest potential, but she still has plenty to prove.’ Indeed.” – Columnist Jon Ralston
• “The government’s latest count of stimulus jobs significantly overstates the effects of the $787 billion program under a popular federal pre-school program… An Associated Press review of the latest stimulus reports found that more than two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs credited to the recovery act under spending by just one federal office were overstated because they counted pay raises for existing workers as jobs saved.” – Associated Press, 11/5/09
• “The ‘runaway’ costs of unionized employees have municipalities across the nation considering ‘managed competition,’ which forces public employee unions to compete for their public jobs.” – Las Vegas Sun, 11/4/09
• “According to the Republican Party leadership, conservatives are just supposed to vote for the liberal Republican and shut up. That is why we are in a fight. Given no voice in the party, half of all conservatives are no longer in the GOP. Why are conservatives expected to be tolerant, but those who are not conservative are not browbeaten into being broad minded? Why are the moderates not tolerant of the majority of the party?” – Conservative icon Richard Viguerie

CALENDAR

• November 6: First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha at Stoney’s in Las Vegas from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. FREE….but you must RSVP to firstfriday@citizenoutreach.com to get in for the 2-1 drink specials. Visit www.firstfridaynevada.com
• November 6: First Friday Happy Hour RENO! From 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sapphire Lounge at Harrah’s Downtown Reno. Co-sponsored by the Nevada Federation of Young Republicans. 2 for 1 drinks and food specials. For more information, call Paul Jackson at 775-351-7549.