Posted in Press | 01/21/12
Las Vegas, NV – With 90% of precincts reporting, more than 12,000 volunteers said “I’m in” for President Obama at today’s Nevada Democratic Caucuses. Volunteers across Nevada gathered at 118 caucus locations and 1,553 precincts to organize and discuss President Obama's vision for a job-creating economy that's built to last – one where hard work pays, responsibility is rewarded, and everyone does their fair share and plays by the same rules. An important opportunity to engage supporters, the more…
Posted in Press | 12/12/11
Las Vegas, NV – During the Republican presidential debate in Iowa last weekend, multi-millionaire Mitt Romney offered Rick Perry a $10,000 bet – shortly after he once again dismissed a payroll tax cut saving middle-class families an average of $1,500 as a “temporary little Band-Aid.” Yep, Romney was willing to bet $10,000 without even blinking. So what does $10,000 buy middle-class Nevadans? More than three years of gas for the average Nevada family ($9,705) 13 months rent for…
Posted in Press | 10/19/11
Las Vegas, NV – In light of recent reports that Nevada Republicans are likely to cave to D.C. Republicans and abandon Nevada’s status as an early voting state, the Nevada State Democratic Party issues the following statement: “Nevada Democrats moved our caucus date to bolster Nevada Republicans’ courage to stand up to Florida, who has violated rules agreed upon by both national Parties and is jeopardizing our hard-fought status as a presidential early-voting state. We are disappointed Nevada Republicans are now…
Posted in Press | 10/11/11
Las Vegas, NV – You can’t make this up. On the same day unelected Senator Dean Heller voted to continue shipping American jobs to China, he voted against creating jobs in Nevada. After again voting to protect the Chinese government’s unfair trade policies that are cheating Nevada workers out of their jobs, Heller then preceded to vote against the American Jobs Act, which would create jobs immediately in Nevada. “Dean Heller had an opportunity today to finally do something…
Posted in Press | 10/10/11
The last two weeks have demonstrated that unelected Senator Dean Heller has abandoned any pretense of being a moderate and that he is outside of the political mainstream. Heller’s political positions are so far on the fringe that moderates, and even conservatives in his own Party, disagree with him on the major issues facing Nevadans. Two weeks ago, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced Nevada had received $13.8 million in federal funding from the Small Business Jobs Act Congress passed last year. These…
Posted in Press | 10/07/11
Las Vegas, NV – What does an unelected Senator do when he has an embarrassing fundraising quarter in which his opponent raises double the amount that he does? He calls up his ethically questionable special-interest friend with benefits, of course! Today, as part of our exposé investigation into Dean Heller’s cheating on Nevadans with Big Oil, Nevada Democrats discovered Dean Heller’s secret plan to bail out his fundraising after Congresswoman Shelley Berkley raised double the amount that he did…
Posted in Press | 10/05/11
Dean Heller: “Inciting a trade war with China will not create jobs in my home state of Nevada.” [Senate Floor, October 5, 2011] People’s Bank of China: Passage of the legislation "may lead to a trade war that we don't want to see". [South China Morning Post, 10/05/2011] LAS VEGAS – In his second floor speech as a United States Senator from Nevada, Dean Heller took his cues not from Nevada’s unemployed workers… but from the People’s Bank of…
Posted in Press | 09/30/11
Las Vegas, NV- In reaction to Florida’s announcement today that they are moving their Presidential Primary date to January 31st, Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Roberta Lange issued the following statement: “Florida’s announcement today risks the integrity and intent of the presidential nominating calendar and is a blatant violation of the rules agreed upon by the national committees of both Parties. The Nevada State Democratic Party has already passed a resolution granting power to the Chair to do whatever…
Posted in Press | 09/28/11
Las Vegas, NV – The extreme right-wing group the Club for Growth today called on members of Congress to vote against jobs-legislation being voted on in the Senate next week to stop Chinese currency manipulation. The legislation would help prevent corporations from shipping American jobs overseas by placing tariffs on countries like China whose currencies are notoriously undervalued. As the Club for Growth threatens Republican Senators into voting against this job-creating legislation with meaningless “score cards”, will unelected Senator…
Posted in Press | 09/22/11
Las Vegas, NV – Tick, tock. Tick, tock. It is day two of unelected Senator Dean Heller’s campaign calling the ad Nevada Democrats released yesterday highlighting Heller’s pay-to-play scheme with Big Oil “untrue," while refusing to say what specifically was not true. Well, in an unprecedented effort to make this as easy as possible for the Heller campaign, we are helpfully providing specific questions about what exactly they find “untrue” in the ad about Dean Heller's ethically questionable connection with Big…