Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki is hosting media conference call at 3:00 pm this afternoon to discuss his 2010 election plans. Jon Ralston, Nevada’s dean of political pundits, predicts Krolicki will announce he’s running for re-election and NOT joining the U.S. Senate race – which would be the smart move and [...]
The federal government was shut down again yesterday thanks to the snowstorms. God bless global warming!
“Naming something in Nevada after our 40th president won’t be simple,” writes Ken Miller of Las Vegas Weekly about the new Reagan Legacy Project launched over the weekend by Citizen Outreach Foundation. “It’s all about shades [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Angle Wins Washoe County Straw Poll (Angle for Senate campaign) – Reno, NV – Sharron Angle (R-NV), a former state legislator who leads Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) in the latest polls conducted by Mason-Dixon and Rasmussen, proved victorious over the weekend by handily defeating all primary Republican opponents [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Reagan Biographer to Keynote Reagan Birthday Party in Vegas (Karri Bragg) – Citizen Outreach Foundation will kick off its Reagan Legacy Project at a birthday party/reception at the M Resort in Las Vegas on February 6, 2010.
Shake Your Fist and Do the Tarkanian Twist (Chuck Muth) – Here [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
Titus to Drop Out on Monday
No, silly. Not Democrat Congresswoman Dina Titus. GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Robin Titus, the first casualty of the “Money Primary.”
Sources close to the campaign say Titus – who has earned a great deal of respect as a thoughtful, serious conservative candidate over [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Reagan Legacy Project
Citizen Outreach Foundation will kick off its Reagan Legacy Project – an effort to name a major landmark in the state of Nevada before what would have been President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday next year – at a birthday party/reception at the M Resort in Las Vegas on February 6, 2010. [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Tarkanian: Vigilance Required in Defending 2nd Amendment (Danny Tarkanian) – You don’t have to be a Constitutional scholar to know that the Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t ambiguous – any more than freedom of speech or the right to assemble. The words are written clearly for all [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
Former Ariz. congressman plans run against McCain
This week, Nevada Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki announced that Arizona Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had recruited him to enter the United States Senate race in Nevada this year. The Associated Press reports tonight:
“Former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth says he’s planning to run [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Citizen Outreach
FOUNDING FATHERS TO THE RESCUE
“Freedom has had its best week in many years. On Tuesday, Massachusetts put a Senate check on a reckless Congress, and yesterday the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision supporting free political speech by overturning some of Congress’s more intrusive limits on election spending. In a season [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
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Supreme Court Hands Free Speech Huge Victory (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Like it or not, the 2010 campaign season is likely to dominate the airwaves more than ever nationally and in Nevada following a decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court repealing a limitation on political spending [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
WAHOO! SUPREMES STRIKE DON’T SPEECH LIMITATIONS
From this morning’s Wall Street Journal:
“The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.
“By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Citizen Ourteach
AND THE JACKASS OF THE YEAR AWARD ALREADY GOES TO.
“I wanted to apologize for calling Senator-elect Scott Brown an ‘irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.’ I’m sorry, I left out the word ’sexist.’”
- Keith Olbermann, MSNBC/NBC anchor
AND THE [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
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More Negro-gate Fallout (Michael Zahara) – Harry Reid will lose in November and take the Democratic ticket down with him. It’s too late to drop out too as Harry Reid has already completely destroyed the Dem ticket for 2010, regardless of what he does now.
Why Is GOP [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Sandoval: My Short Term Budget Deficit Plan (Brian Sandoval) – Currently, the state of Nevada is in the midst of an unprecedented budget and cash flow crisis, which is creating substantial short term budget challenges. Nevada’s financial experts are predicting the budget deficit will grow to between $200 [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
If Harry Reid Does Quit….What Then? (John Fund) – In the end, I don’t believe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will run for re-election. Whether or not the health care bill he muscled through the Senate becomes law, the 70-year-old will bow out of his race for a [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Citizen Outreach
EN BOCA CERRADA
“Harry Reid is in trouble again, which means that he opened his mouth.”
- Blogger James Taranto
POETIC JUSTICE
“Just last month, (Sen. Harry) Reid insinuated that fellow senators standing in the way of ‘Obamacare’ were carrying on the tradition of the racists who stood in the way of civil rights in the [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
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Seems Like Old Times: Ensign Defends Reid…Again (Chuck Muth) – Nevada Republicans, pay attention. Harry Reid OWNS John Ensign now. John Ensign will NOT help you defeat Harry Reid. In fact, John Ensign, as we just saw yesterday, will do everything he can do to [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
More Bad New for Harry Reid
The highly-respected and non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report today moved Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s re-election race from “Toss-Up” to “Lean Take-Over” for Republicans.
Details HERE
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
Chachas Has Money to Spend, Can’t Wait to Debate and Has Ideas for Job Creation
In an exclusive interview with Elizabeth Crum, editor of the Nevada News Bureau, Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Chachas indicates that he’ll report “considerably more money raised externally” than he showed on his first FEC report [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
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Conservative Black Leaders Respond to Reid’s Racial Remarks (NN&V Staff) – Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network are speaking out about the recently-revealed racial comments about Barack Obama that were made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in 2008:
The Standard Double-Standard (Rich Galen) – For [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Candid Candidate: An e-Interview with Elizabeth Halseth (Nancy Dallas) – Elizabeth Halseth is a Republican candidate for Assembly District 13 in Las Vegas. The seat is currently held by fellow Republican Assemblman Chad Christensen who is leaving for a run for state Senate.
Reid’s comments disgusting, despicable, and [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
New Blog Slams Sandoval as a RINO
The battle for the soul of the Republican Party has now spilled over big-time into the gubernatorial race. A new, very hard-hitting anti-Brian Sandoval blog titled “RINO BS” is now up on the ‘net, authored by an anonymous blogger who describes his or [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
“Mt. Reagan” Legacy Project Launched in Nevada (NN&V Staff) – Citizen Outreach Foundation announced on Friday the launch of an effort to name a significant landmark after the late President Ronald Reagan before what would have been his 100th birthday on February 6, 2011.
The Political Money Chase Race [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Citizen Outreach
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karri Bragg
January 8, 2010
(702) 481-0674
“Mt. Reagan” Legacy Project Launched in Nevada – Rogich, Raggio to Serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of Kickoff Event
(Mount Reagan, Somewhere in Nevada) – Citizen Outreach Foundation announced today the launch of an effort to name a significant landmark after the late President Ronald Reagan before [...]
By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
Fight Between Gibbons and Legislature Goes White Hot As Governor Threatens Lawsuit
“In a letter to Speaker Barbara Buckley and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, Gov. Jim Gibbons threatens to sue lawmakers if they do not remove their instructions to legislative lawyers not to draft his legislation intended for an upcoming [...]