Posted in Press | 07/29/10
Senate Suspends Rule Against Staffers Testifying, Yet Angle Still Cozy with Ensign POLITICO and Jon Ralston are reporting that the Senate has suspended a rule against staffers testifying in order to allow Ensign staffers to testify against him in a grand jury investigation convened by the Department of Justice. This is devastating news for Ensign and another sign that his political career is coming to an end. The Ensign investigation began after Ensign admitted a lengthy affair with a campaign…
Posted in Press | 07/29/10
Says He Didn’t Tell Univision His “Children Don’t Look Hispanic” The lies are piling up around GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval. Last night, Sandoval denied that he ever told Spanish-language television station Univision’s news director, Adriana Arevalo, that he’s not concerned about the impacts of the controversial Arizona immigration law struck down in part by a federal court yesterday because his “children don’t look Hispanic.” Arevalo wrote in a column last week that Sandoval “said in an interview on Univision…
Posted in Press | 07/21/10
Ensign and Angle Would Have Left “Spoiled” Unemployed Out in Cold Despite weeks of Republican obstructionism, the Senate has passed an all-important procedural vote to move forward on extending unemployment benefits for out-of-work people affected by the tough economy. But although Republicans like Sen. John Ensign know that the bill has the votes to pass thanks to Sen. Reid’s leadership, they are heartlessly making the 30,000 Nevadans who have lost their benefits in recent weeks wait one more day for…
Posted in Press | 07/20/10
Angle Allows Group Expelled by National Tea Party to Continue Fundraising for Her As more and more national Republicans – and even other Tea Party groups such as the Tea Party Federation – distance themselves from the Tea Party Express, Sharron Angle continues to cozy up with the group whose public face has been widely condemned for his latest racist rant. Earlier this year, Tea Party Express Spokesman Mark Williams stood next to Angle as she received the Tea Party…
Posted in Press | 07/19/10
As the Senate prepares for a crucial vote to extend unemployment insurance for workers hit hardest by the recession and national Republicans once again oppose this important assistance, we know where Sharron Angle stands. She thinks extending unemployment benefits would be “a terrible thing” [Heidi Harris in the Morning, 6/2/2010]. As usual, she’s siding with national Republicans and against Nevada workers who, through no fault of their own, have been disproportionately hit by the economic downturn. Those workers are “spoiled”…
Posted in Press | 07/19/10
Angle Continues to Allow Williams, Tea Party Express to Raise Funds for Her Senate Campaign Yesterday, Nevada Democrats called on Sharron Angle to denounce the racist writings of Tea Party Express leader and spokesman Mark Williams, who stood on stage by Angle when the Express gave the GOP Senate candidate its endorsement earlier this year. But it was dollars, not distance, that Angle put between herself and the organization, which has been expelled from the national Tea Party Federation for…
Posted in Press | 07/19/10
Or Will She Remain In the Bunker, Support Racist Element of Tea Party? Standing on stage beside Sharron Angle as she accepted http://www.marktalk.com/blog/?p=9458, also the group’s chief spokesman, who has been widely condemned for penning a “satirical” racist screed on his blog, MARKTALK.com. The rant was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln and used the word “colored” repeatedly, attacked the NAACP as a “racist” organization and said the people the NAACP represent “strive for” welfare and “don’t cotton to that whole…
Posted in Press | 07/15/10
Would She Repeal Common-Sense Wall Street Reform? As Democrats, led by Sen. Reid, have finally secured passage of landmark Wall Street reform that will hold big banks accountable after weeks of Republican obstructionism, Sharron Angle says she would stand with John Ensign and the financial institutions whose risky practices created our an economic meltdown. Angle has said that, like Ensign, she would have stood with the big banks. But would she stand with House Minority Leader John Boehner – who…
Posted in Press | 07/14/10
GOP Candidate Confused On Whether He Will Debate Rory Reid If you mistakenly thought GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval was invisible, you weren’t alone. But Sandoval proved us all wrong this week, when he emerged to say something silly on television – once and for all clearing up the mystery of why his campaign staff doesn’t, well, let him say things on television. "We are in discussions right now, the two campaigns," to schedule a series of debates, Sandoval said…
Posted in Press | 07/14/10
State Can’t Afford Team Angle-Ensign’s Brand of “Leadership”Nevadans know that when it comes to fighting for our state no one is more equipped than Sen. Harry Reid. As the Majority Leader of the United States Senate he is making Nevada the leader in clean energy, helping struggling businesses and homeowners, working to get our economy back on track and protecting Nevada from becoming the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground.But now more than ever – with Nevada’s junior senator a walking…