WARNING
A Republican So Bad Even Ronald Reagan Would
Break the 11th Commandment!
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“Senate
Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, was rated
the
worst senator…” – Las Vegas
Review-Journal, 6/9/13
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Dear Fellow
Republican,
Since
the media in this town doesn’t exactly do a great job of covering local
politics in races other than Governor and Congress, what you are about to read
might shock you.
Indeed,
you might find it hard – impossible, even - to believe.
But
first, this is NOT a fundraising letter.
So put your checkbook away.
In
fact, the only purpose of this letter is to warn you about a very dishonest and
deceptive Republican – YOUR Nevada state senator, Michael Roberson (Senate District 20) – before you go to the polls
(if you haven’t gone already).
I
can assure you that every word is true.
But don’t take my word for it.
You can very easily verify everything I’m about to tell you. Now, here’s the troubling story…
Michael
Roberson ran to be your state senator for the first time in 2010. He ran as a card-carrying, fire-breathing,
limited-government conservative Republican.
See for yourself by visiting www.ModerateMike.com.
Indeed,
he not only signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising you that he would
“oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes,” but he
symbolically signed it on April 15th – Tax Day.
At a TEA
PARTY RALLY!
Republicans
in District 20 believed him. Trusted
him. Supported him. Elected him.
But don’t feel badly; he fooled me, too…and I’ve been actively involved
in politics for over 20 years!
Anyway,
once he got into office, “Conservative Mike” Roberson horrifically transformed
into “Moderate Mike” Roberson…
- He voted to extend the $620 million worth of “temporary” tax hikes from 2009 that were supposed to expire last year…including the sales tax you pay and your vehicle registration fees.
- He voted to not only raise your gas tax, but put the hikes on auto-pilot so your gas tax will jump every year with inflation!
- He proposed and fought for a new $600 million tax on the state’s mining industry – an industry that all but keeps many of our rural communities from being subsidized by Clark County taxpayers.
- He voted not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES to implement ObamaCare here in Nevada, including the disastrous Nevada “ObamaCare” exchange.
- He voted to expand Medicaid – a fateful decision that will inevitably mean even higher taxes for you and me down the road.
- He voted to give driver’s licenses to persons who are in this country illegally!
- He sponsored a bill to use your tax dollars to teach English to children whose parents are in our country illegally.
- He refused to co-sponsor a “campus carry” bill that would allow young women with concealed carry permits to protect themselves from being raped, assaulted or murdered on our college campuses.
- And the list goes on and on and on…
A proven
record of failure!
Remember
how Ronald Reagan said that someone who agrees with you 80% of the time is an
ally, not an enemy. Well, wait ‘til you
see “Moderate Mike’s” record!
But before I share with you the
senator’s ratings from three well-established conservative organizations, you
should know that all three ratings are based SOLELY on the senator’s
voting record. You don’t get points for
talking like a conservative but voting like a Democrat.
American
Conservative Union: 47.00%
Nevada Policy
Research Institute: 44.80%
Citizen
Outreach:
You thought I was kidding when I
told you how bad his voting record was, didn’t you?
It
truly is unbelievable that that a Republican claiming to be a conservative
voted like a conservative Republican LESS THAN half the time, let alone
80 percent!
And then
there’s his one-man “War on Women”!
In 2012, after longtime Senate
Minority Leader Bill Raggio retired, Roberson seized control of the Republican
Senate Caucus and kicked Sen. Barbara Cegavske – the senior Republican in the
caucus and only Republican woman – out of her leadership position and off the
powerful Finance Committee…and put himself on it!
There’s more…
The state Senate is currently split
11 Democrats/10 Republicans. And there
are two seats in play in Clark County that could give Republicans the majority
next year if they win both of them.
However…
Roberson hand-picked his own two
candidates – both inexperienced, unaccomplished moderates who did as Roberson
instructed and refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that he, himself,
signed in 2010 – over two far better qualified conservative candidates … including
one sitting state assemblyman!
There’s good
news, however…
Bad Republicans like Michael
Roberson are the reason for primaries.
In fact, as you’ll recall Ronald Reagan himself challenged a moderate
incumbent Republican in the 1976 GOP presidential primary.
Fortunately, we have a very
Reaganesque conservative, Carl Bunce, who has stepped forward to challenge Sen.
Roberson in this Republican primary. If
you’re not familiar with Mr. Bunce, let me give you a little background…
- He’s a member of the Nevada Republican Central Committee
- He’s a former Precinct Director and Vice Chairman for the Clark County Republican Party.
- He was a Republican candidate for Congress in 2008
- He was the State Chairman of a presidential campaign in 2012
- He was named Citizen Outreach’s “Conservative of the Year” for 2014
- He’s signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge…and swears that, unlike Sen. Roberson, he’ll honor his promise to you.
So
you have a legitimate viable, credible, believable conservative alternative to
a man who betrayed you and me and everyone else who helped elect him four years
ago.
For
all of your Star Trek fans out there, you’ll remember this great line from
Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott: “Fool
me once, shame on you. Fool me twice,
shame on me.”
Please,
don’t be fooled by Michael Roberson again!
Conservatively
yours,
Chuck Muth
Conservative |
Republican
P.S. I guess I should share with you by “bona
fides” even though this letter isn’t about me.
Still, it might help you trust what I’ve written if you know a little
about me…
I’m a former
Clark County Republican Party chairman.
I’m a former Nevada Republican Party executive director. I was once the National Chairman for the
Republican Liberty Caucus. And I’m also
a former executive director of the American Conservative Union.
In addition,
I’m Nevada’s #1 conservative blogger (www.MuthsTruths.com), sponsor of the
annual Conservative Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, publisher of a
conservative online “newspaper” (Nevada News & Views), author of a book
about the 2004 presidential campaign (“Ketchup with Your Crow, Mr. Moore?”), and
a weekly columnist published in a dozen Nevada newspapers.
I’m also
president of a conservative grassroots advocacy organization called Citizen
Outreach which is heading up the Mount Reagan Project – an effort to name a peak
on the top of Frenchman Mountain just east of Las Vegas after our 40th
president (www.MountReaganProject.com).
Oh, I’m also
married with three children, two dogs, a cat, a bunny rabbit, a guinea pig, a
horned lizard, three parakeets, two desert tortoises, three aquariums and two
chinchillas. But please don’t tell the government or some bureaucrat
pencil-pusher is liable to raid our home and force me to get a zoo license!
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