THE HICKEY HICCUP
If Assembly
Gumby Minority Leader Pat Hickey
(Reno-RINO) really thought his comment about minorities not voting in 2014
being great for Republicans was going to die down, he got a cold splash of
reality Thursday morning when Gov. Brian
Sandoval threw him under the bus with this prepared statement…
"I disagree with the minority leader's statements. We must earn the trust and confidence of all Nevadans and seek their support on Election Day. Pat's comments do not reflect my views and he should reconsider them."
For
the milk-toast governor, this is about as strong a condemnation as you’re ever
gonna get!
Shortly
thereafter, Senate Minority Leader Moderate
Mike Roberson rochambeaued his GOP colleague, saying in a statement…
"I am deeply disappointed in Pat Hickey's recent comments as they pertain to the youth and minority vote in Nevada. His comments are not reflective of my views and I have shared my concerns privately with Pat."
But
Sandoval and Roberson were pikers compared to this missile Nevada U.S. Sen. Dean Heller shot up Hickey’s wazoo…
“Recent comments from Assemblyman Hickey are divisive, insensitive, and run counter to the basic duties and honor of public service. Assemblyman Hickey should know that it is a privilege to represent Nevada’s many cultures and ethnicities. And furthermore, it is his responsibility, as it is all elected officials, to welcome any Nevadan into the political process, regardless of political affiliation, background, or any other characteristic.”
OUCH!
And
you can bet these aren’t the last Republicans to weigh in and distance
themselves from the Gumby Republican with the “yellow wife” and “olive-skinned
kids” (his words, not mine).
For his
part, Hickey has fallen back on the old “everybody else does it” defense,
telling Reno Gazette-Journal reporter
Ray Hagar…
“There isn’t a politician in leadership in either party who doesn’t occasionally make a gaffe and have to explain what they meant to say. In that moment, apparently, I suffered from some foot-in-mouth disease that seems to infect politicians occasionally.”
This
all is starting to remind me of Mitt
Romney’s totally ineffective effort to explain away his “47 percent”
comment. And the more Hickey tries to explain
what he meant, the worse it gets.
Meanwhile,
Democrats are having a field day with Hickey’s comments, claiming the political
cipher was trying to “suppress” the minority vote…which is giving Hickey WAY
too much credit. He’s nowhere near savvy
enough to even consider such a thing!
Also,
liberal gabber Rachel MadCow is all
over Hickey’s Hiccup today (click
here), as was the liberal Huffington Post yesterday (click
here). They smell blood. They won’t let this go. And it’s hurting all Republicans - not just
here in Nevada, but nationally.
Since
Hickey already had his chance on TV Wednesday night to dig himself out of the
macaca pit of his own making - and instead made the bad situation worse - he
really needs to just step down from his leadership post and stop embarrassing
the entire GOP.
Three-term
Assemblyman John Hambrick - who
recently took one for the GOP team by deciding not to engage in a divisive
Republican primary fight for an open state senate seat that he’s earned despite
the Senate Republican Caucus’s insistence on running a woman in that district –
can immediately and capably step in and competently run the assembly caucus for
the duration of Campaign 2014.
The
only thing standing in the way of fixing the damage Hickey has done is Hickey’s
own pig-headedness. Time to exit, stage
left, Pat. It might not be fair, but it’s
the “right” thing to do.
KIRNER TAX
I know
Assemblyman Randy Kirner doesn’t
like us calling the Kirner Tax the Kirner Tax, but I also know that a lot of
people don’t know what the Kirner Tax is when they hear someone call the Kirner
Tax the Kirner Tax.
So I
went out and bought KirnerTax.com and redirected the domain name to my column
on the Kirner Tax in which I explain how the Kirner Tax came to be called the
Kirner Tax.
So
if you know anyone who wants to know how the Kirner Tax became the Kirner Tax,
just send them to www.KirnerTax.com. #KirnerTax
FREE MARKET SUGAR
The
international Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
recently released new figures showing large increases in government
agricultural subsidies for farmers all around the globe…but not in the U.S. That’s way Rep. Ted Yoho has called for “every
major sugar-producing and sugar-consuming country in the world” to completely
eliminate any and all direct or indirect subsidies to sugar producers.
STOP PATENT TROLLS
Wikipedia
defines a “patent troll” as follows…
“A patent troll is a person or company who enforces patent rights against accused infringers in an attempt to collect licensing fees, but does not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question.”
Others
commonly refer to the lawyers who represent patent trolls, especially when it
comes to Internet applications, as “high-tech ambulance chasers.” In other words, they file lawsuits for an
alleged injury that may or may not be legitimate in the hope that the person or
business sued will pay a negotiated fee rather than incur the cost of defending
themselves in court.
This
is a new issue for Citizen Outreach and you’ll be hearing more about it in the
future. In the meantime, click
here an article explaining what Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) is doing legislatively to fix the problem.
FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR
Our VIP
guest-of-honor at next week’s First Friday Happy Hour will be our 2014 Courage
Under Fire award recipient, Amanda
Collins.
If
this courageous young woman’s name is unfamiliar to you, click
here and read one of the many stories about being attacked in a UNR parking
garage and how she’s valiantly tried to change Nevada law since then so that
her nightmare isn’t visited upon other unarmed college students in the future.
First
Friday will be held next Friday, October 4 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the Blue
Martini in Town Square on the south end of the Strip. Open to the public. $5 donation requested at the door. Happy hour food and drink specials and all
the political banter you can stand!
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Now
that he’s up against Jeopardy, the number of people watching (Jon) Ralston’s
television show has shrunk from how many people you can fit in a McDonald’s
restaurant to how many people you can fit in a McDonalds bathroom.” – Name
withheld
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