SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 06/09/2014

BILBRAY-KOHN’S STUNNINGLY STAGED “STUNT” EXPOSED

Did you hear about Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn's supporters at the "non-partisan" Progressive Liberal Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) supposedly getting the door slammed in their face and "arrested" simply for trying to talk to Rep. Joe Heck about immigration reform?

Well, it turns out to have all been nothing but a pre-arranged political stunt.

It is now known that PLAN informed Metro of their plan to "occupy" Congressman Heck's office in advance and Metro officers were already standing by when Heck's office staff called Metro after the loud, bullhorn-toting occupiers refused to leave.

We also now know that the occupiers weren't arrested, as Bilbray-Kohn claims.  They were merely issued a citation for trespassing or something.

"This was a planned stunt," writes a certain liberal blogger, "designed to get media attention, and Heck’s office staff decided to call Metro because….Metro told them to.  This was scripted from start to finish."

What's it tell you about a candidate when she has to lie about a staged political stunt?

TEA PARTY POSERS

You know, this really shouldn’t be that difficult to understand.  The “tea” in the “tea party” movement stands for “Taxed Enough Already.”  As such, candidates who have voted to raise taxes are NOT who real tea party activists support.

And yet faux tea party activist Cathie Lynn Profant-Gisi-Johnson-Martinez-Boudreau is bending over backwards trying to elect Mark Hutchinson to the lieutenant governor post despite his support for the $620 million “sunset” tax extension and his co-sponsorship of Sen. Moderate Mike Roberson’s new $600 million mining tax, as well as voting for 55 of 56 other tax and/or fee hikes in the 2013 legislative session.

That’s over a BILLION dollars worth of higher taxes, and yet this self-professed “tea party” gal has gone all in for the tax hiker.  So much for honesty, consistency and integrity.

Oh, and Profant-Gisi-Johnson-Martinez-Boudreau now has a tea party fraud soulmate in Reno.

Over the weekend, Roger Stockton – last seen trying to block the Nevada Republican Party from endorsing candidates in primaries – scrawled a letter-to-the-editor in the Reno Gazette-Journal in which he hypocritically...endorsed a candidate in a GOP primary.

But he didn’t endorse either of the two candidates in the race who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising to, you know, oppose and vote against any and all efforts to, you know, raise taxes. 

No, the Stockmeister endorsed incumbent Assemblyman Randy “Kirner Tax” Kirner, father of the Kirner Tax, who has voted not once, but twice to extend the $620 million worth of “temporary” tax hikes from 2009 that were supposed to expire in 2011.

Stockton is every bit the establishment tool that Profant-Gisi-Johnson-Martinez-Boudreau is.  And he can’t even see the absurdity of his own arguments.

In his LTE, Stockton writes that “It is not good enough for a candidate to say they support conservative principles” and that “Candidates will say anything to get elected, and who knows what they will really do?”

Good grief.  This clown is describing HIS OWN CANDIDATE!

Kirner is saying he supports conservative principles but scored a lousy 50% conservative rating on both of Citizen Outreach’s 2011 and 2013 scorecards.  That means Kirner only votes for conservative principles half the time!

In other words, Kirner votes one way but “says anything” to get elected.  And we know what he’ll do once in office: Vote like a Democrat half the time.  Yet Stockton claims “We cannot afford to lose Kirner’s leadership”?

Frauds and clowns.  Welcome to establishment GOP politics, folks.

RAISING CAIN

The Las Vegas Review-Journal published an article over the weekend in which former GOP presidential candidate and now conservative talk-show host Herman Cain discusses the tea party movement…

Ever since the rise several years ago of the conservative tea party, which is against increasing taxes and for limited government, the Republican Party has been torn by divisions that have hurt the GOP at the ballot box.

But Cain argued the conservative movement has been good for the party in some ways because it has allowed fresh voices into the GOP and caused Republicans to focus more on basic small-government values.

“The tea party movement is causing some establishment candidates to move to the right, for example,” Cain said in a telephone interview.  “Even though the quote, unquote tea party-backed candidates may not be winning a lot of these contests, their influence is causing some of their establishment candidates to modify their views.”

Cain noted that establishment GOP candidates often have an edge in elections because they’re well-funded incumbents.

Exactly.  And Nevada’s GOP primary is a textbook example of exactly what Cain said. 

The establishment candidates – from Brian Sandoval to Mark Hutchison to Moderate Mike Roberson to Pat Hickey and on down the ballot to the candidates these folks are backing – have the edge solely because they are so much better funded than their challengers.  And they are all moving to the right because of the conservative challenges.

Yes, indeed.  The tea party has been very good for Nevada.  And it will keep getting better and stronger once we winnow out the posers such as Profant-Gisi-Johnson-Martinez-Boudreau and Stockton.