By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views
TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
Missing GOP Convention Ballot Box Found, Geraldo on Way to Reno!
(Chuck Muth) – That small band of whacked-out Ron Paul supporters who can’t get over their obsession with the meaningless delegate vote at the 2008 Nevada Republican Convention report that they’ve discovered a missing box of ballots cast for the 2nd congressional district delegate seats and will open the box with great fanfare and excitement on Friday afternoon in Reno.
What A Difference A Day Makes For The Embattled Senate Majority Leader
(National Republican Senatorial Committee) – After several key Senators announced their opposition to Majority Leader Reid’s health care power play today, please see an on-the-record statement from the NRSC, as well as background information below.
Don’t Let the RINOs Keep a Conservative From Going to Congress!
(Richard Viguerie) – Once again, the party bosses are trying to stop a conservative from going to Congress.
Nevadans expected to spend $1.4 billion on holiday gifts
(Retail Association of Nevada) – A national Gallup poll conducted in early October revealed that consumers over the age of 18 expect to spend $740 per person on gifts this year, which is up 16 percent from the $639 reported in December 2008.
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MUTH’S TRUTHS
Return of a Man Called Ryan – The Republican U.S. Senate campaign of John Chachas took a serious turn toward serious yesterday with the announcement that highly-respected Nevada political consultant Ryan Erwin had signed on to run the race. This is a definite game-changer. Erwin knows his trade and knows Nevada, both of which will be needed for a first-time candidate who hasn’t lived in the state for a long, long time.
Combined with the $1 million Chachas has seeded his campaign with, along with another $400,000 he’s raised from friends and colleagues around the country, The Man from Ely now has to be considered a definite viable candidate.
Obama Sacrificing American Lives Until He Gets His Peace Prize? – Political consultant, author and Fox News comentator Dick Morris was the keynote speaker at last night’s annual Keystone Corporation dinner at the Venetian. In addition to detailed remarks on the health insurance reform issue and Sen. Harry Reid’s re-election prospects, Morris said he believed President Obama was dragging his feet on making a decision on what to do in Afghanistan because he doesn’t want to jeopardize actual receipt of his Nobel Peace Prize, scheduled to be presented on December 5th.
That’s a pretty incendiary accusation which, if true, means the lives of U.S. military personnel are being sacrificed right now just to assure that the Norwegian idiots who awarded the American president the undeserved prize in the first place don’t change their minds.
That Was No Joke – Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick also spoke briefly at the Keystone dinner and assured everyone in attendance that Sen. Harry Reid’s remark back in August that he hoped the conservative paper would go out of business was definitely not a joke; that it was intended and received as a serious threat. Frederick also noted that the RJ’s circulation has increased since the brouhaha erupted while other papers are losing subscribers.
Gibbons Supports Public Option – I had breakfast with Gov. Jim Gibbons and his Chief-of-Staff, Robin Reedy, yesterday morning in Las Vegas and enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion of policy and politics. Not surprisingly, the issue of tax hikes came up. And we all agreed that if anyone in the Legislature or outside it wants to raise taxes in the middle of this ongoing recession, they need to do so using the Public Option.
That is, get a sufficient number of signatures from the voting public (approximately 90,000) to place any such tax hike on the ballot in 2010 and then win a public vote on it – the same process Gov. Gibbons followed to qualify and pass his Tax Restraint and Education First ballot initiatives. Finally, a public option Republicans can support!
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.” – Foreign service officer Matthew Hoh, a Marine who fought in Iraq who resigned as a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan
