MUTH'S TRUTHS 10/29/2013

IRRITATING LIBERALS It is so funny watching Jon Ralston, Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger, going out of his way not to acknowledge my existence or how much I’ve gotten under his skin.  This from his Morning Flash newsletter last Friday… The GOP attack machine revved up Thursday after Erin Bilbray’s performance on “Ralston Reports,” with what seemed like an orchestrated letter/Twitter campaign about her “un-American” comment. She clearly realized the toxicity by putting out both a clarifications list and an email to supporters in which she bizarrely forgot to BCC folks (thus allowing it to get into the hands of at least one Internet troll) and also seemed to construct it a bit hastily (missing word alert!): “Internet troll”!!  Too funny.  Lord, how I love irritating these people. THE WHEELER BROUHAHA Back in 2010, conservative Assemblyman Jim Wheeler – who was not yet elected at the time – and I had a difference of opinion on the job of an elected representative as it relates to fulfilling his constituents’ desires.  Mr. Wheeler’s position was that he was elected to vote how his constituents wanted him to vote, even if he believed they were wrong. To demonstrate my position that an elected official - who has a lot more information at his or her disposal when issues come before the Legislature than the average citizen - has the obligation to do what he believes is the right thing regardless of what the voters favor, I raised the extreme example that if voters wanted to bring back slavery it was incumbent upon the elected official to vote no anyway. Fast forward to this past August.  Now-Assemblyman Wheeler was speaking at a Lyon County GOP meeting and reasserted his position that as an elected official he believes his job is to vote as his constituents want, raising my example about slavery that came up three years earlier. A video of Assemblyman Wheeler’s remarks was uncovered by a liberal activist and released on Monday to a voracious media and establishment Republicans who smelled blood coming from a conservative and began the expected feeding frenzy – as if Wheeler would ever really vote to bring back slavery. Indeed, as Wheeler put it in an email to colleagues last night… “I used an over the top example of something that I absolutely do not agree with, and even mentioned that to get me to vote for such a thing, my constituents would literally have to hold a gun to my head. In reality, that isn’t the case at all. If my constituents wanted to do something as outlandish as bring back an abhorrent system, then I simply couldn’t represent them anymore. They would remove me from office, or I’d have to resign.” Look, the man used an extreme analogy to make a point about his opinion on the proper role of an elected official in which he and I have disagreed for some time.  The context of his remarks was about his obligation to the whims of the electorate, not slavery.  But he did say what he said and he’s taking the heat for it. But let’s not overlook the obvious here.  Obviously, this brouhaha has blown up out of proportion for one reason: Jim Wheeler is a conservative.  Remember just a few short weeks ago, Jon Ralston himself, Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger, referred to the campaigning by black Republican Niger Innis as “spadework.”  It was an extremely poor choice of a “racially insensitive” word, but nevertheless you didn’t hear a peep from anyone about it.  Why?  Because Ralston’s a liberal, that’s why. It’s a well-known and well-established double standard. The bottom line is this: Jim Wheeler would never vote to bring back slavery, his poor choice of words to the contrary.  But because he’s a conservative, Ralston’s lynch mob is out for blood.  It’ll be up to Assemblyman Wheeler’s constituents to decide what, if anything, to do about it. KRASNER FUNDRAISER TONIGHT! Don’t forget, join me tonight in Reno at a "Fun" raiser for conservative Republican Assembly District 26 candidate Lisa Krasner.  Bully's Restaurant & Pizza at 18156 Wedge Parkway (at Mt. Rose Hwy) from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Guests: $20.00 / College Students: $5.00.  Pizza, soft drinks, beer, fun & friends!  RSVP to: Lisa@LisaKrasnerForNevada.com or (775) 830-7232 TRUTH IN POLITICAL ADVERTISING On Saturday, Mi Familia Vota, a pro-amnesty organization trying to pass itself off as bipartisan, announced that Rep. Jeff Denham, R-CA, had signed on as the first Republican co-sponsor of H.R. 15, “a House immigration reform bill which combines the Senate Judiciary Committee's bipartisan immigration bill with a border security bill passed unanimously by the House Homeland Security Committee.” In its press release, Mi Familia Vota declared that “there is no doubt that the Latino community responded in the 2012 election with a mandate for commonsense immigration reform with a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without documents.” What they call “commonsense immigration reform” is what the rest of us call amnesty. And don’t you just love the end of that sentence; “11 million immigrants in the U.S. without documents”? Of course they don’t have documents.  They entered the country illegally!  That’s why people who are honestly discussing this issue refer to them as illegal immigrants, not “immigrants without documents.”  That makes it sound like they just lost their documents or the dog ate them.  No, they don’t have documents because they’re here illegally!  They broke the law.  They’re not supposed to be here.  They didn’t enter the country legally and THAT’S why they don’t have documents.  Sheesh. Oh, and by the way, you don’t think the fact that Mr. Denham is a California almond rancher, who clearly would benefit from cheap labor, has anything to do with his decision to back a major amnesty bill, do you? 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