Saturday, August 30, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 08/30/2014

ERIN EMBARRASSED!

On Friday, Erin Bilbray-Kohn, the liberal Democrat candidate for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, issued a thoroughly desperate email pitch for money in an effort to take her faltering campaign off life-support and somehow at least survive in a comatose state through Election Day.

“Erin is fired up - it’s time to pull out all the stops and win in November!” wrote, well, um, “The team @ Erin Bilbray for Congress HQ” because, well, Bilbray-Kohn’s finance director either fled the sinking ship or was tossed overboard a few days ago and apparently no one else has yet to step up and fill the job.


Sunday is our last end-of-month deadline before our big media buy and Erin needs to hit her goal to get on air,” The team @ Erin Bilbray for Congress HQ declared, continuing Bilbray-Kohn’s disingenuous practice of not telling her financial supporters exactly what that “goal” is.

“Erin cannot win without you,” The team @ Erin Bilbray for Congress HQ advised.  “It’s crucial that we get her message out to every voter in Nevada!  It’s go time!”

Actually, for this monumentally embarrassing campaign it was time to go long ago. 

ROMERO HUMILIATED!

Sometimes embarrassing things happen to people who richly deserve to be embarrassed.  Such is the case with Hispanic race-hustler Fernando Romero of Hispanics in Politics.

As noted here about a week ago, the members of HIP voted to endorse Republican Rep. Joe Heck over his liberal Democrat challenger, Erin Bilbray-Kohn, in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District race. 

But Romero – a pleasant enough chap who nevertheless serves as a partisan towel boy for Nevada Democrats - engineered a political stunt whereby HIP’s executive board actually OVER-RULED the membership’s endorsement vote!

That, in itself, was embarrassing enough.  For both Romero and Bilbray-Kohn.

But on Friday, clearly under pressure, Romero completely and totally reversed himself and sheepishly announced, “Joe Heck gets the endorsement.”

Those two huge tractor trailers from Brady Industries seen pulling into Romero’s driveway this morning were delivering a sufficient number of towels to wipe the humongous amount egg from Fernando’s face.

By the way:

In the gubernatorial race, HIP endorsed the Republican candidate. 

In the 1st Congressional District race, HIP endorsed the Republican candidate. 

And in the 3rd Congressional District race, HIP has now officially also endorsed the Republican candidate.

So, um, where are the mainstream news stories about Democrats “losing the Hispanic vote,” huh?

HICKEY UNCHAINED!

As I mentioned yesterday, GOP legislators were outraged on Thursday after Democrat Assemblyman Paul Aizley, Chairman of the Legislative Committee on Public Lands, ruled unilaterally that his committee would not pursue state control of certain federal lands in Nevada during a work session of his committee.

The response from Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey (Reno-RINO) was delivered via Pony Express late yesterday morning, well after the news stories about the matter had already been written, published and broadcast. 

And what a shame, because Hickey’s statement really let Aizley have it (not)!

Summoning up all the partisan fire-and-brimstone he could muster, Hickey called down the thunder and unloaded on Aizley in an email press release with the indecipherable headline, “Who's pulling the strings on Nevada's public lands?”

“The Chairman's surprise decision to table recommendations on the issue of Nevada's public lands, is a slap in the face to all 63 Nevada lawmakers who voted for the study, and all 17 Nevada counties who funded and staffed the legislatively-mandated task force," declared Hickey in a sentence bearing at least two too many commas and a “who” that should’ve been a “that.”

Gotta wonder which English major in the GOP caucus wrote that sentence for Hickey and how Hickey, a former newsman, ever approved it.  But that’s digressing into Ralstonesque territory, so let’s move on.

"The purpose of an interim committee is to study issues, take input from the public, and report back to the Legislature the conclusions arrived at by its members,” declared the former conscientious objector.  “Whoever it was that influenced the Chairman to reject the Nevada Land Management Task Force's recommendations, has done a disservice to the Nevada public and their elected representatives.”

Wow!  What a scathing indictment…even with yet another comma that has no place being there.  How will Aizley and the Democrats ever withstand such a virulent public display of Hickey wrath?  Why, I’m sure Aizley will now “pull a Romero” and reverse himself immediately, right?

Yeah, right. 

Come on.  Hickey’s statement – issued not only well after the horse left the barn but after every news outlet in the state had already reported on the horse’s escape – was as lamely written and ineffectively delivered as…well, just about every other press release/statement issued by Hickey in the past.

And all kidding aside, exactly what is Hickey going to do about this “outrage” on Aizley’s part? 

Well, if history is any guide, absolutely nothing.  Hickey talks a good game – well, no, not really – but when it comes to taking firm, effective action, the man is a bronze statue.  It reminds me of this old comedy bit from Robin Williams

“In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say ‘Stop…or I'll say stop again.’”

So Aizley will get away with the stunt he pulled because there is no opposition leader who will make him pay a price for what he did. 

Hickey’s title should be changed from Minority Leader to Minority Eunuch.

If Republicans in the Assembly re-elect this guy to “lead” their caucus in November they will deserve every bit of humiliation and frustration they will inevitably again suffer in 2015.

You can’t fix stupid.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“The president of every airline should fly in coach as a nobody, on an empty stomach, eating from his pockets, in a middle seat, at least once a month.  Every state’s governor should be put, anonymously, inside his state prison for a week.  Elected officials should live by ALL the same laws they enact.  Congress, the president and IRS executives made to do their own income taxes, televised live on C-SPAN.  Oops, off on a rant.” – Marketing expert Dan Kennedy

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