WHERE’S YOUR FREAKING PERMIT?!!
Three – THREE!! – government agents surrounded a ten-year-old kid and shut down her lemonade stand last week. Read all about it HERE (but take your blood-pressure medicine first).
WITH DEEP REGRET
For those of you who voted for Barack Obama last November – or have friends or relatives who did – and now see the error of your/their ways, you can apologize to the world on a new website HERE. Some of the comments are priceless.
A TALE OF TWO APOLOGIES
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was Citizen Outreach’s keynote speaker at the first annual Conservative Leadership Conference we held in Reno back in 2007, and I received a letter from him this week addressing the issue of his recently-disclosed extra-marital affair.
“I have struggled with how best to convey my regret in letting you down,” the governor wrote, “and in this regard I realize this letter does not do justice in my attempt to begin the process of saying I am sorry.”
Sanford continued:
“…I wanted to write to apologize for, in the most profound of ways, letting you and so many others down. In life it’s always the people closest to us that we hurt the most, and given our friendship and shared belief in limited government and liberty, I know I’ve hurt you. I apologize for this, and more than anything ask for your forgiveness going forward.
“…I want to thank you for your kindness and support over the years. I plan to be a better friend going forward to indeed honor all you and others have done for me over the years. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I apologize again.”
Now contrast that with Sen. John Ensign’s apology a couple days ago in his first public appearance since his own extra-marital affair was revealed:
“I haven’t done anything legally wrong.”
Is it just me, or does anyone else find this far from adequate?
NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN
As he prepares for a run for the seat of term-limited moderate state Sen. Randolph Townsend, conservative Assemblyman Ty Cobb (R-Reno) this week stepped down as chairman of the conservative Nevada Republican Study Committee (NRSC), turning the reins over to Assemblyman Ed Goedhart (R-Amargosa Valley).
Goedhart – who also serves as the legislature’s Tax Pledge Caucus chairman – intends to start a PAC to assist conservative candidates running for Assembly seats in primaries next year, as well as hire a Legislative Director to assist the group in developing, researching and analyzing legislation.
The NRSC mirrors a similar GOP caucus-within-the-caucus in Congress and was formed here in Nevada after the start of this year’s legislative session. The late start prevented the group from doing much or causing much of an impact, but conservatives can expect bigger and better things next time around under Goedhart’s leadership.
THE SMELL OF FEAR
Anyone who doesn’t think Harry Reid and the Democrats are scared to death that Nevada GOP Chairman Sue Lowden might run against the Majority Leader need only read the following from Reno Gazette-Journal reporter/blogger Anjeanette Damon:
“Republican officeholders across the state received a public records request earlier this month from a DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) researcher. The letter requests ‘any correspondence, in any form’ between Lowden and the officeholder ‘for all years.’ Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, Assemblyman Lynn Stewart and Gov. Jim Gibbons have received the letter. Stewart also said Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert has received it.”
Run Sue, run.
HEIDI, HEIDI, HEIDI….NO
Speaking of Heidi Gansert, news that Brian Sandoval would soon enter the GOP gubernatorial race was apparently enough to shake her back into reality. The Assembly Minority Leader announced yesterday that she’s decided to run for re-election next year instead of mounting a quixotic run for governor.
So the GOP will once again be blessed with her uninspiring campaign managerial oversight in 2010, as well as her go-along-to-get-along, I-love-table-scraps, rubber-stamp Gumby legislative leadership in the 2011 legislative session.
Oh…joy.
SUE, HARRY AND THE REPUBLICANS
One of our more intrepid readers dug up some old contribution records which show that Republican Sue Lowden and her husband, Paul, gave Friends for Harry Reid five contributions of $1,000 or $2,000 totaling $8,000 over the span of five election cycles dating from 1982 through 1989 while they were owners of the Hacienda Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
Fine. Fair enough. Legitimate criticism.
However, note for the record that the Lowdens estimate that over the same period of time though today they have donated directly to hundreds of Nevada Republican candidates – not to mention what they’ve donated to the party itself in cash and in-kind contributions – a sum well over a quarter-million dollars.
I venture to say that’s probably more than all of the other prospective GOP candidates running against Reid combined. Next?
THE RACE AGAINST RORY
Here are the results of our decidedly unscientific survey of Muth’s Truths readers on which Republican candidate should take on Harry Reid’s boy in next year’s gubernatorial race:
- Former State Sen. Joe Heck – 40%
- Former N. Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon – 13%
- Former Attorney General Brian Sandoval – 13%
- Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki – 13%
- Gov. Jim Gibbons – 12%
- Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert – 6%
- Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio – 2%
Note: Since launching the survey, Gansert (see above) and Krolicki have both announced that they will be running for re-election next year rather than for governor.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“(I)f he can give his ‘no new taxes’ speeches and deride lawmakers for a day or two (in a fall special session), Jim Gibbons might get to the requisite 25 percent needed to win a four-way GOP primary.”
- Jon Ralston, Flash, 8/17/09
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