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Quitter is Not a Fighter
I
got a kick out of my moderate Republican opponent in the race for lieutenant
governor, state Sen. Mark Hutchison, telling folks in a “What’s Your Point?”
television interview last week that Republicans are going to vote for him
because they know he’s a fighter; that he fought ObamaCare pro bono, yada,
yada, yada.
Problem
is, what many folks still don’t know is that the full-time attorney with no
experience in economic development or tourism fought ObamaCare as a part of a
multi-state lawsuit in which he played a minor role, lost the case, gave up the
fight, and then voted three times in last year’s legislative session to
IMPLEMENT ObamaCare here in Nevada.
Indeed,
what Hutchison did was sit on the bench during the first inning of a baseball
game, watched as his team fell behind 1-0, quit the game and went home, then
joined the other team the next day.
I
guess it all depends on your definition of “fighter.”
It
was also humorous to see Sen. Hutchison dance around the mining tax
issue. As many people know, he proposed a massive $600 million tax on
Nevada’s mining industry in the 2013 legislative session; a tax hike that would
cripple many rural counties and probably put hundreds of mining industry
employees out of work.
But
after his proposal went nowhere and Sen. Hutchison decided to run for statewide
office - which includes counties where mining is critical to their economic
well-being as opposed to his suburban Las Vegas district where virtually no one
cares about mining - he suddenly had an “election conversion” and now
thinks maybe his proposal isn’t such a hot idea after all.
In
other words, like with ObamaCare, Mark Hutchison was against the mining
industry before he was for it. Can anyone really trust such a John
Kerry-like politician?
Memo
to Jon Ralston: “Yes, Really”
Last
January, I submitted an updated plan to settle remaining debts from my 2010
race against Sen. Harry Reid for FEC approval. And because the debt
settlement plan has not yet been approved by the FEC, I am not allowed to continue
making the payments that I have been making for the last three years.
When advised of this, Jon Ralston wrote on his blog, “So she can't pay her
creditors even if she wanted to? Really?”
Yes,
really. Click here to find out why
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Things Hutchison Doesn’t Want You to Know about Me and the FEC
My
opponent’s campaign continues to beat this dead horse and make false
accusations about debts remaining from my 2010 campaign against Sen. Harry
Reid. Last week Ryan Cherry of Team Hutch emailed the following to their
supporters…
“You may have seen the news stories over the past few months about Sue Lowden's refusal to pay over $600,000 in past due bills to small businesses who she asked to work on her 2010 campaign. In fact, several of these businesses were forced to file lawsuits against her in an effort to collect on past debts.”
Again,
it’s a good thing Sen. Hutchison isn’t required to campaign with one hand on a
Bible.
The
problem here is that dealing with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) is an
extremely complicated and drawn out process and just as bureaucratic as dealing
with the IRS. So let me lay this all out, hopefully in a way that even
his ghost-writing minion, Mr. Cherry, can understand.
Paid for and authorized by Sue Lowden for Lieutenant Governor
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