Friday, July 25, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 07/25/2014

RINO SHEDS CONSERVATIVE CLOAK, COMES OUT OF CLOSET

In her Republican primary against conservative Taxpayer Protection Pledge-signing GOP candidate Vick Gill, Becky Harris – Senate Minority Leader Moderate Mike Roberson’s handpicked candidate for the critical Senate District 9 seat – ran and campaigned as a conservative while simultaneously refusing to ink the Pledge.


And now that she fooled enough Republican primary voters to get the nomination last month, Harris is reverting to form.  In her new campaign flyer Harris claims she’s “not your typical Republican.”  In other words, she’s really just Democrat-lite, as demonstrated by these new, decidedly NOT Republican, positions…

  • She now agrees with Democrats, liberals and the teachers union in declaring that “our schools are underfunded.”  As if more money would fix education.
  • She now supports “reducing class size,” an expensive, failed, feel-good notion that Nevada has been experimenting with in grades 1-3 for over two decades with no noticeable improvement whatsoever.
  • She now supports “increasing teacher pay” with no mention whatsoever of increasing teacher accountability or parental school choice.
  • She claims to be “the only candidate for State Senate who has a plan to fund education.”  No she isn’t; especially if her plan is to increase spending on education.  Every Democrat candidate running for the Legislature has a plan to increase spending on education.
  • She now supports a $600 million tax hike on the state’s mining industry as proposed by her master-and-commander, Sen. Roberson.
  • She now supports forcing taxpayers to pay for her birth control pills.
  • She now supports the expansion of Medicaid, a foolish decision that is going to cost Nevadans up the wazoo in a couple years once the feds stop contributing to the program and taxpayers here get stuck holding the bag.

I can’t support Harris’ Democrat opponent, incumbent State Sen. Justin Jones, as his radical anti-gun rights agenda.   But sorry folks, I can’t support Harris either.  A two-faced, forked-tongued, Roberson-controlled Stepford assemblywoman isn’t any better.

Put me down for “None of the Above” in this race.

MUTH’S TRUTHS

--> Vice President Joe Biden was in town this week, paying homage to the race-baiters at the NAACP convention.  And in televised remarks, Biden complained about the politics of personal attacks and urged candidates to simply tell the truth and stop mischaracterizing the positions of their opponents.

Interesting.  I thought Biden was here to campaign FOR Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn, not criticize her campaign!

-->  Saw GOP lieutenant governor candidate Mark Hutchison at a lunch yesterday.  What a campaigner.  I think he shook hands with every single person in the room…except, um, one.

Was it something I said? 

-->  The Secretary of State’s office has dismissed a lame complaint filed by Clark County Republican Party Chairman “Dave 4 Nevada” McKeon against State Controller Kim Wallin, whining that Wallin was paying her own bookkeeping company to professionally do the bookkeeping for Wallin’s 2014 campaign for State Treasurer.

Seriously?  Time and energy was wasted on something so silly?  Time that could have been better used to, you know, raise money, organize precincts or register voters?  What a ‘shroom.

-->  A friend of mine just got the May TV ratings for the Las Vegas market, and it doesn’t look good for Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger, “Jonny Boy” Ralston.  The Goateed Gabber, host of Ralston Reports, the lamest political show on Nevada TV (both of the state's U.S. senators are boycotting the program), is hemorrhaging viewers. 

Don’t be surprised if the program is cancelled by the end of the year.

-->  Former Democrat Assemblyman Steven Brooks, who was kicked out of the Legislature for allegedly threatening Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick and other bizarre behavior, has been sentenced in California to two years and eight months in the slammer for evading a police officer and resisting arrest on I-15 near Barstow in March 2013 on the same day as his expulsion.

On the positive side, this now makes him a prime future candidate for mayor of Washington, DC!

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Obama picks female, non-pilot general to head US Air Force in the Pacific. Next up: picking an aquaphobic to lead the Navy.” - @FredThompson

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