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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