For Immediate Release: February 16, 2010

Contact: [email protected]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian issued the following statement on this week’s Obama-Reid “Socialism Summit” in Las Vegas

DANNY TARKANIAN:

“This week in Las Vegas, President Obama and Senator Reid are convening a “Socialism Summit” to argue for more government control of our economy. But after a full year of broken stimulus promises, Nevadans aren’t buying what the President and Senator Reid are selling.

“Nevadans are now rejecting the Obama-Reid attempt to base our nation’s economy around government. Their experiment with a government-run economy means Washington gets to pick winners and losers; under their plan, Washington decides which bridge gets built, which bank gets saved and which industry gets a bailout and a new CEO. In their world view, Washington dictates your wages, your health care and your benefits. Their agenda is so invasive, that under their energy tax proposal, you get taxed for turning on the wrong light.

“Unfortunately, even some Republican candidates are echoing this idea that government can ‘fight for your job.’ If the government can fight for your job, than by definition, it must be able to control it. That’s not what our Constitution is about. As Nevada’s U.S. Senator, I will fight for your freedoms. and against the government interference that is threatening your jobs. I subscribe to Ronald Reagan’s admonition that government isn’t the solution, but it’s usually the problem. We need more of that understanding in Washington.

“If I’m elected to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate, I will go to Washington to win back freedom and opportunity for Nevadans – not to implement any political party’s agenda. I will go to Washington to get our economy moving again by slashing taxes and removing onerous regulations. I will work to persuade this administration that Nevadans don’t want handouts and government doles – Nevadans just want their freedom and opportunity returned to them. They know what to do with it.”

Tarkanian also had a slightly different take on the President’s recent remarks where he said; “When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”

TARKANIAN: “I think the President would have been more on point if he had said: ‘When times are tough for Americans, the government should tighten its belt. You don’t go bailing out banks when Americans can barely pay their mortgages. You don’t go blowing a bunch of cash on socialist experiments when you’re trying to save the free market.”

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There are so many different fronts that we in the tea party movement must fight to take our country back.

Frequently, we at the Tea Party Express have focused on the “big picture” if you will: raising money for political campaigns – to support the “good guys” or defeat the “bad guys,” TV and radio ad campaigns on key issues of the day, organizing mass rallies, spearheading petition campaigns and email/letter/phone call/fax campaigns to key Members of Congress, news conferences, press releases to the media, etc…

But there is much more that needs to be done. Thankfully there are some great patriots who are helping to organize a national effort to provide tea party supporters such as yourself a fantastic opportunity to really change the way politics work – and ensure that constitutional conservatives are involved in the decision making process of the major political parties.

If you live in California, both of the following two action items require your attention.

If you live anywhere else in the nation, pay attention just to Action Item #1.

** ACTION ITEM #1 ** (Nationwide): The National Precinct Alliance has been steadily building a network to give tea party supporters and conservative constitutionalists the chance to help take back the major political parties. It involves a grass roots effort at the ground level – to ensure that good people such as yourself can help us take back the political parties by getting involved specifically at the precinct level.

As the National Precinct Alliance explains:

The candidates, democrat and republican, who win public office will almost always be the candidate endorsed by the local PARTY LEADERS. One of those two candidates, either the republican or the democrat, will be elected in November, and go to Congress to make the laws, and determine much of our country’s future. This is very obvious to most Americans. What is not obvious is what is happening at the grassroots level. Every two years there is an election most Americans are not aware of… the election of our Precinct Executives. The Precinct Executives elect the Party Leaders and the Party Leaders endorse the candidates for office. Hence, the only way Americans can fire the current local county Party Leaders is through the Precinct System by electing like-minded Precinct Executives.

So how do you, or someone you know, become a Precinct Executive and help advance this effort? The National Precinct Alliance has all the answers and you can get involved here: http://www.nationalprecinctalliance.org/main/getting_started

** ACTION ITEM #1 ** (California Only): In California an important deadline is coming up – tomorrow, Tuesday, February 16th. The deadline is for applications to the first-ever Citizens Redistricting Committee.

Because of a voter-approved initiative, private citizens such as yourself can apply to serve on the state’s redistricting commission, where the lines are drawn for legislative districts throughout the state.

We are all now well aware of the famous – infamous – examples of district lines being drawn for a congressional or legistlative seat that are ridiculously shaped. They are designed solely to get blocs of voters into one district, to help ensure that the incumbent politicians – in this case now dominated by liberals – can keep their seats and hold on to power.

But not anymore!

Not, at least, if California patriots such as yourself will please, please, please apply to serve on the California Citizens Redistricting Committee.

Full details on how to get involved are here: http://www.wedrawthelines.ca.gov/