Wednesday, September 17, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 09/17/2014

ANOTHER BILBRAY ATTACK BOOMERANGS ON HER

The problem with playing the high-and-mighty card comes when you’re guilty of the exact same thing you accuse someone else of (he writes ending a sentence with a preposition). 

Such is the case with the following tweet from Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-without-the-Kohn on Tuesday afternoon…

A friend just called. Someone is out there with a horrible push poll against me.  It is time to end mean spirited partisan politics.

My Twitter response…

erinbilbray: You mean like when you called your opponent, Dr. Joe Heck, an Army doctor w/2 tours in Iraq, "un-American"?

Punching holes in this embarrassing campaign’s messaging is like, as my friend George Harris puts it, shooting fishsticks in the freezer.  It’s almost too easy.  For example, here’s the campaign’s latest lame fundraising pitch…

“Our race is getting even hotter.  Joe Heck has made an ad buy close to $200k to distract voters from his Tea Party extremism and dismal record in Congress.  We’re officially 50 days from Election Day and we’ve got to double our own airtime to get the REAL story out.  Can Erin count on you to chip in now?”

How is a race that most campaign professionals and prognosticators have now all but written off “getting even hotter”?  I mean, doesn’t it have to at least be warm…or even room temperature…first?

And who, other than the 12-year-old who’s writing this flapdoodle, actually thinks Dr. Joe Heck is a “Tea Party extremist”?  I mean, can’t we get “REAL”?

That said, boy, oh boy, do I hope Democrats on Erin’s email pitch-list chip in BIG. After all, as the saying goes, a fool and his money are soon parted.  And every dime foolishly going to the Bilbray-without-the-Kohn race is a dime not going somewhere else where the money might actually do some good.

So come on, Democrats.  Give ‘til it hurts to your champion and #1 draft pick for the 2014 campaign season.  Erin!  Erin!

MUTH’S TRUTHS

--> The Denver Post is reporting that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez is leading Democrat incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper by ten points in a new Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters, 50-40%.

I first met Bob in 2000 when he was chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.  I was driving back to Las Vegas in my RV from the GOP national convention is Philadelphia, stopping in a different city every couple of days to conduct a campaign training seminar for candidates and activists.  Chairman Beauprez had, by far, the biggest turnout of any stop I made.

Let’s hope they’re all engaged in this race to help turn Colorado red!

--> Despite Nevada’s last-in-the-nation crappy schools, Tesla is coming to Nevada.  And despite our crappy schools, Apple came to Nevada.  And despite our crappy schools, IKEA is coming to Nevada.  So explain to me again how businesses won’t locate in Nevada because of our crappy government-run schools?

Hey, here’s a radical idea: Suppose Nevada offered universal school vouchers so that the employees of any company that located here could send their kids to the school of THEIR choice, not the government’s choice.  Do you think that might spur economic development and business relocations?         

--> So the Clark County Commission has banned walking on Strip sidewalks while carrying a glass bottle of Coke.  Or a glass bottle of cough syrup.  Or a glass bottle of beer.  However, you can still carry a PLASTIC bottle of Coke, cough syrup or beer.  So this is nothing short of container discrimination.

Seriously though, this is yet another example of punishing the many for the actions of a few.  What should be unlawful is littering, not carry a glass container – and it is.  So what we should be doing is enforcing our existing littering ordinances, not creating yet another means for police officers to stop and harass individuals who are doing nothing but carrying a glass container.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“On this day in 1787, the framers of our nation met & signed the U.S. Constitution.” – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

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