Friday, October 3, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 10/03/2014

MUTH’S TRUTHS

--> If someone can lawfully come into the U.S. from Liberia and bring the Ebola virus with them, can you imagine what someone could bring into our country illegally through our porous borders?

--> That cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal hasn’t been executed for his crime is itself a crime.  That he’s been selected by Goddard College president Bob Kenny to give the commencement address at his alma mater in Vermont via recorded video is beyond outrageous.  Water-boarding shouldn’t be out of the question in this case.

--> The left incessantly whines that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer while the middle class is being wiped out.  Alas, a new study by the Senate Budget Committee reveals that it’s the Obama administration’s policies that are responsible for the collapse of the middle class!  Click here to read it and weep.


--> As if there isn’t enough to be disgusted with how the NFL is ruining football, a Kansas City Chiefs player was penalized Monday night for dropping to his knees in prayer in the end zone after intercepting a pass and running it back for a touchdown.  Idiocy.

--> “Redskins” is not a slur to Indians.  As the name of a football team, it is a term of respect and admiration.  Anyone who thinks otherwise should be scalped.

--> Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-without-the-Kohn wrote in an email on Thursday afternoon: “Because of you, we surpassed our goal for the FEC deadline and sent a clear message that Nevadans are ready for change this November – thank you!”

Except…no one knows exactly what the goal was.  The Bilbray-without-the-Kohn campaign never tells its supporters what the fundraising goal is BEFORE the deadline.  We’re just supposed to trust the campaign.  And, thankfully, many foolish Democrats are doing just that!

--> The good folks over at the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) have released their 2014 “Piglet Book,” a compilation of how government misuses and misspends our tax dollars.  Click here to read more.        

--> Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller had another ethics complaint filed against him, this time for putting his name and mug on the home page of a government website where military service personnel go to vote in the general election. Since Miller himself is a candidate in the November 4 election – he’s running for attorney general – this is totally inappropriate use of his official position as secretary of state.

--> Funny development: After initially ridiculing the complaint as “silly” and an election year “stunt,” Miller’s office removed the offending name and photo from the website the very next day.  Guess it wasn’t such a “silly stunt” after all.

--> And speaking of Miller, Citizen Outreach’s appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court of Miller’s lawsuit against us for a pair of issue advocacy mailers we did way back in 2010 is scheduled for oral arguments in Carson City on Monday, November 3rd.  We’re hopeful that the court ultimately rules in favor of free speech over Miller’s re-writing of the definition of “express advocacy.”

--> Republicans who were outraged by the Democrats’ cowardly hike-and-seek tactic in 2008, whereby they refused to allow state Senate candidates Allison Copening and Shirley Breeden to debate their opponents or be subjected to media interviews, should be equally outraged by the GOP’s embrace of the exact same tactic for state Senate candidates Becky Harris and Patricia Farley this year.

If the two continue on this path – as well as Senate Minority Leader Moderate Mike Roberson, who similarly is ducking debates and media interviews – then none of them deserve election and Republicans sure as shoot don’t deserve the majority in the Senate.  Running scared is no better than Obama’s strategy of leading from behind.

--> Big day on Thursday for Clark County sheriff candidate Joe Lombardo.  First he was endorsed by a former challenger in the race, Ted Moody.  Then he landed the endorsement of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, thanks at least in part to the fact that his opponent, Larry Burns, is the candidate of the police union.

Who am I to argue with Moody or the RJ?  Put me down for Lombardo, too.

--> Why are taxpayers paying for the PR services of Mitch Fox on behalf of North Las Vegas City Councilman Isaac Barron who owns the home where 52 dogs were killed in a fire a few days ago? 

That incident has nothing whatsoever to do with the councilman’s duties as a councilman.  That incident has to do with the councilman’s duties as a private landlord.  Yet all media inquiries of Barron into the incident are required to go through Fox, and Fox has been issuing statements and press releases on the matter on behalf of the councilman.  That’s just not right.

--> Some of you conservatives have been there for quite some time.  Other conservatives aren’t quite there yet.  (Let’s call them “Dagny Taggart Conservatives.”)  But I’ve finally seen the light and am joining the boycott.  I will no longer vote for a bad Republican simply because the Democrat is worse.  So don’t be shocked by some of my general election endorsements coming out over the next few weeks.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“If people of the left really believed government spent money well they would make voluntary contributions to gov.not charities.They don't.” - @GroverNorquist

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