Grab a coffee and bagel and tune into the Alan Stock show tomorrow (Monday) morning at 7:00 a.m. as the local conservative talk-show host and I banter, pontificate, commiserate and pick apart Tuesday’s election races for a full hour.
I wonder if the term "Gumby Republican" will come up?
KDWN 720 AM in the Las Vegas area, or via streaming audio at www.kdwn.com on that thingy Al Gore invented.
DUMPING DUNCAN FOR DUMPING ON TAXPAYERS
Against my better judgment last week, I stuck my neck out and added Republican state assembly District 37 candidate Wes Duncan to my “Chuck’s Picks” list, almost entirely because he’s running against Marcus Conklin, the Democrat leader who will be the next Speaker of the Assembly if he wins re-election.
Duncan is the GOP establishment’s “Golden Boy” this election cycle, and the opportunity to rub out the other team’s lead sled dog would be a nice consolation prize for a GOP caucus that will, once again, be in the minority no matter what next session.
But then I had to go and read the Sunday paper this morning…
In a Las Vegas Sun story about the Conklin/Duncan race written by the estimableDavid McGrath-Schwartz, the issue of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge came up. And I’m guessing you can guess where this is going to go.
In the original web edition of the story, McGrath-Schwartz reports that Duncan boasts “that he hasn't signed the pledge not to raise taxes.”
Nor has he bothered to speak to me or Grover Norquist about it.
Don’t you love candidates who take public policy positions without even bothering to talk to, you know, the leading experts on those issues? Kinda like voting for ObamaCare without bothering to talk to leading doctors and medical professionals about it. You know, the way so many congressional Democrats did.
"I'm not saying I'm not going to raise taxes,” Duncan is quoted as saying. “We have to see what revenues are."
Good…grief.
That’s the exact same position taken by his opponent! So much for contrast. A vote for Duncan, and most every other “Gumby Republican” on the ballot this year, is not, as the saying goes, so much a choice as an echo. Talk about raising a banner of pale pastels.
Making matters worse, on October 24, 2012, Duncan’s campaign issued a press release accusing the Conklin campaign of “trying to steal the election.” According to Duncan, members of Conklin’s “field team” were “caught red-handed” illegally removing Duncan’s literature from neighborhood doors.
So of course Duncan filed an official complaint, right?
Wrong.
All he filed was the whiny press release announcing: “I do not plan to prosecute them.”
Lovely. An underdog challenger candidate going up against arguably the most powerful Democrat in the lower house who has outraised him by almost 4-1 has made the brilliant strategic decision to just “stay positive.” Can’t we all just get along? All we are sayyyy-ing…is give peace a chance.
Wonderful. Another go-along-to-get-along Republican afraid to pick a political fight with an entrenched Democrat opponent. Just what Nevada taxpayers and consevatives need.
Not.
If you’re afraid to run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
As such…and again, thank goodness I didn’t vote early…I am hereby withdrawing and removing Wes Duncan from my “Chuck’s Picks” list.
TOMORROW: Why Romney is about to win in a landslide. Stand by….
CHUCK’S PICKS
Remember, Chuck’s Picks are CHUCK’s picks, not Citizen Outreach’s picks.
President: Mitt Romney (R)
U.S. Senate: Dean Heller (R)
CD-1: Bill Pojunis (LP)
CD-2: Mark Amodei (R)
CD-3: Joe Heck (R)
CD-4: Danny Tarkanian (R)
State Senate 1: Gregory Hughes (IAP)
State Senate 3: Tick Segerblom (D)
State Senate 6: Mark Hutchinson (R)
State Senate 7: Trish Marsh (R)
State Senate District 13: Kathy Martin (R)
State Senate 19: Janine Hansen (IAP)
State Question 1: NO
Carson City Question 1: NO
Clark County Question 2: NO
Henderson Question 1: NO
Assembly District 2: John Hambrick (R)
Assembly District 4: Michele Fiore (R)
Assembly District 5: Bill Harrington (R)
Assembly District 9: Kelly Hurst (R)
Assembly District 10: Tim Farrell (R)
Assembly District 12: James Ohrenschall (D)
Assembly District 14: Amy Groves (R)
Assembly District 15: Megan Heryet (R)
Assembly District 19: Cresent Hardy (R)
Assembly District 21: Les McKay (IAP)
Assembly District 22: Randy Spoor (D)
Assembly District 29: Bob Irwin (R)
Assembly District 31: David Espinoza (R)
Assembly District 33: John Ellison (R)
Assembly District 35: Tom Blanchard (R)
Assembly District 39: Jim Wheeler (R)
Assembly District 40: Pete Livermore (R)
Assembly District 41: Phil Regeski (R)
Assembly District 42: Robert McEntee (R)
Clark County Commission District A: Steve Sisolak
Clark County Commission District B: Ruth Johnson
Clark County Commission District C: Craig Lake
Clark County Commission D: Wesley Cornwell
District Judge, Department 4: Kerry Early
District Judge, Department 5: Carolyn Ellsworth
District Judge, Department 14: Adriana Escobar
District Judge, Department 20, Jerry Tao
Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas, Department 1: Deborah Lippis
Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas, Department 5: Bill Jansen
Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas, Department 8: Amy Chellini
Justice of the Peace, North Las Vegas: Kalani Hoo
Justice of the Peace, Moapa: Tony Terry
Justice of the Peace, Mesquite: Ryan Toon
Justice of the Peace, Laughlin: Tim Atkins
University Regent, District 1: Cedric Crear
University Regent, District 4: Allison Stevens
University Regent, District 9: Ron Knecht
University Regent, District 12: Lonnie Hammargren
State Board of Education, District 1: Alexis Gonzales-Black
State Board of Education, District 2: Dave Cook
State Board of Education, District 3: Ed Klapproth
Clark County School Board, District B: Rose Moore
Clark County School Board, District E: Patrice Tew
Washoe County Commission, District 1: Marsha Berkbigler
Lyon County Commission, District 1: Chuck Roberts
District Judge, Department 9: Scott Freeman
Incline Village GID Trustee: George Del Carlo
Sun Valley GID Trustee: Vicky Maltman
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