HICKEY: CONSERVATIVES NEED
NOT APPLY
Assembly
Minority Leader Pat Hickey (Reno-RINO)
was a disaster as leader of his caucus in the 2013 legislative session
primarily due to his hostility towards anything conservative, as well as his
propensity to roll over and hope the Democrats would rub his widdle tummy every
time a controversial bill or issue came up.
When
it comes to appeasement, this guy makes Neville
Chamberlain look like a Mongolian general.
Then
again, running from a fight isn’t exactly something new to Hickey. Indeed, in the chapter titled Conscientious Objector in his
autobiography, Tahoe Boy, Hickey
wrote: “While I thought it was cowardly to run and hide in Canada (to avoid the
draft during the Vietnam War), I was anything but brave.”
He continued…
“As
ordered, in May of 1970 I reported to Oakland for induction into the U.S.
Army. The officer in charge read what he
was supposed to and the 249 men beside me took the symbolic step forward into
the service of the nation. I was the
lone soul who didn’t.”
So
it should come as no surprise that Hickey has consistently ducked legislative confrontations
as leader of his caucus, as well. He’s
no wartime consigliere, that’s for sure.
But it’s
one thing for Hickey to dodge fights with the Democrats; it’s another to be systematically
undermining efforts to elect conservatives to his caucus who will stand up when
he stands down. Here’s the latest
example of just how much Hickey loathes the idea of conservatives joining “his”
caucus.
Assemblyman
Tom Grady in rural District 38 in
northern Nevada has been one of the worst Republicans in the Legislature when
it comes to voting like a conservative.
Thankfully, he’s term-limited out and can’t run for re-election again.
Dr. Robin Titus – who briefly ran for the
U.S. Senate in 2010 – has had an interest in running for Grady’s seat for a
while, but out of respect and as a courtesy would not run against the incumbent. But now that Grady’s finally being kicked to
the curb, Dr. Titus is running…and has been actively campaigning since last
summer.
Titus
is not only a longtime Nevadan and immensely qualified, but she’s also a
staunch conservative.
Yesterday
morning, Hickey tweeted that he was in district 38 “visiting candidates.” Word on the street is that he was really
there trying to RECRUIT candidates to run against Titus, namely former
Churchill County commissioner Norm Frey
- who is nowhere near as conservative as Titus and far less likely to rock
the boat.
Both
Hickey and Grady, who’s said to be part of the Anybody-but-Robin recruitment
effort, have reportedly told others they think Titus is just “too conservative.”
Now,
that concern *might* be legitimate if Titus was running in a Democrat-majority
district, or even a “swing” district.
But get this…
According
the voter registration numbers for November 2013 on the Nevada Secretary of
State’s website, there are more than TWICE the number of registered
Republicans in this district than Democrats…16,818 to 8,361!
Genghis Khan could
get elected in this district!
So
despite his assertions to the contrary, Hickey does NOT support the most
conservative candidate who can win.
Indeed, we now have further proof that what Hickey is looking for are
moderate Gumby Republicans – such as tax-hiker Kelly Kite, who Hickey has encouraged to run against conservative
Assemblyman Jim Wheeler - who will
follow him in the next session whenever he again turns tail and runs from a
fight with the Democrats.
The good
news: While Hickey’s out trying to stab
Dr. Titus in the back while cutting her off at the knees in District 38, he has
a serious, credible primary opponent of his own to deal with in the form of
conservative Richard Fineberg.
With
any luck, Titus will get elected AND Hickey will be sent packing. Bring on Conservageddon!
MUTH’S TRUTHS
In a
Las Vegas Review-Journal article
headlined, “Obamacare gives Western governors a headache,” reporter Laura Myers writes…
Western
governors are paying a political price for trying to implement President Barack
Obama’s health care insurance plan.
Here
at home, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who opposed Obamacare, is getting
criticism from the conservative right for starting a state health insurance
exchange and expanding Medicaid under the law. He is the only GOP governor to
do both, at a time when he is running for re-election in 2014. . . .
Chuck
Muth, a staunch conservative and columnist who distributes a political
newsletter, said Sandoval’s decision to fully implement Obamacare “could come
back to bite him.”
Sandoval
faces no strong GOP primary opponent, although perennial candidate Ed Hamilton
is running as a Republican. He also has no major Democratic foe, yet.
Libertarian David VanDerBeek also is running and could take some votes away
from Sandoval’s column.
Muth
argues that those unhappy with Sandoval might vote for the libertarian or a
conservative Democrat, especially if Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak
jumps into the race.
“Sandoval
is not yet the shoo-in that many are pretending him to be,” Muth wrote Friday.
That
Muth guy makes a lot of sense!
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“A
poll released yesterday by the Associated Press and GfK demonstrated a point
I've been making with eye-glazing regularity: The problems with healthcare.gov
will be solved; when they are solved they will reveal a far more damaging
problem for the Obama Administration and its Democratic supporters: Obamacare
itself stinks. It was ill conceived, ill
designed, ill written, and is being ill implemented.” – Rich Galen, Mullings.com,
12/15/13
“Two
sociologists have found that parents who have daughters are more inclined to
support the GOP and turn a cold shoulder to Democrats. In newly published findings that challenge
earlier research, Dalton Conley of New York University and Emily Rauscher of
the University of Kansas found that having more daughters than sons and having
a daughter first ‘significantly reduces the likelihood of Democratic
identification and significantly increases the strength of Republican Party
identification.’” - Rich Morin, Senior Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Social &
Demographic Trends Project
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