“Lyin’ Ted” Isn’t the
Only Whopper Teller
on the Campaign Trail this Year
on the Campaign Trail this Year
But Cruz is far from
alone in this department.
Indeed,
the Queen of Prevarication, Hillary Clinton, is the subject of a new video that’s
gone viral showing her “lying for 13 minutes straight.”
To be fair, though, she’s been at it a
heckuva lot longer than Cruz!
But
telling whoppers isn’t an offense committed only by presidential
candidates. Indeed, we have world-class
whopper-tellers right here in Nevada, as well.
For example: Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto-Reid.
In
her new TV commercial, Cortez Masto claims she “took on the big banks when they
preyed on homeowners and forced them to pay $1.9 billion to Nevadans.”
But reporter Mark Robison investigated the
claim and concluded that “Cortez Masto did not force multiple banks to pay
Nevadans $1.9 billion, as her ad claims.”
If
only there were truth-in-labeling laws for political ads.
Then
take Republican Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson (please!).
On Tax Day in 2010, Roberson “pledged to the
taxpayers of Senate District 5, and to all Nevadans, that if elected, I will
oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase your taxes.”
Last
year he LED the effort to pass the largest tax hike in Nevada history!
Roberson
was joined in saying one thing on the campaign trail and doing another in the Legislature
by tax-hiking Senate GOP colleagues Ben Kieckhefer, Greg Brower, Patricia
Farley, Scott Hammond, Joe Hardy, Becky Harris and Mark Lipparelli.
Then
there’s freshman Assemblyman P.K. O’Neill of Carson City. When he ran two years ago, his campaign
mailer stated in bold, unmistakable lettering: “No New Taxes For Nevadans.”
P.K.
went even further, describing the proposed new “margins tax” that appeared on
the ballot as “A JOB KILLER.”
In
addition, he declared that “Nevada should grow, and not tax, our way out of the
recession.”
Six
short months later P.K. shamefully voted for the $1.4 billion tax hike, the
largest in state history, which included a new margins tax very similar to the
one that 80 percent of his constituents rejected at the polls.
P.K.
was far from alone in back-handing Nevada’s taxpayers by running on a “no new
taxes” platform and then voting for the Mother of All Tax Hikes.
He
was joined in the Assembly by tax-hikers John Hambrick, Paul Anderson, Derek
Armstrong-Anderson, Pat Hickey, Randy Kirner, Stephen Silberkraus, David
Gardner, James Oscarson, Erv Nelson, Glen Trowbridge, Lynn Stewart, Melissa
Woodbury and Chris Edwards – who enjoys the unique, two-faced, fork-tongued,
John Kerry-like distinction of voting for the tax hike before voting against
it.
And
some still wonder why a non-politician outsider like Donald Trump is doing so
well?
(Mr. Muth is
president of Citizen Outreach and publisher of NevadaNewsandViews.com. You can reach him at ChuckMuth.com.)
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