TODAY’S NEWS & VIEWS HEADLINES
Hey, gang. I’m in Newport Beach, CA, today for the start of this year’s Western CPAC conference an am WAY behind. So even though it’s rather ugly, I find I need to send out today’s Nevada News & Views without “hot linking” all the items and gussying up the formatting. But I figure better than nothing and I assume you can figure it out today. So here goes….
Legislative Panel Recommends Four Proposals as Finalists for Revenue Study
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=846
Rory Reid Announces His Gubernatorial Bid in Reno
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=848
Roberson Announces for Senate District 5
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=854
Lowden: Reid’s Claims not Grounded in Facts
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=859
Tark: Reid’s Reckless Promises of Jobs and Economic Recovery
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=850
Biden, Reid Tout “Success” as Nevada Unemployment Skyrockets
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=873
Dems Blast Gibbons on Stimulus Spending, Governor Fires Right Back
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=829
Reno Chamber to Host Supply-Chain/Global Business Forum
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/?p=856
BTW: Nevada News Bureau editor Elizabeth Crum is coordinating “blog row” here at the Western Conservative Political Action Conference. Catch the who’s-who details HERE
http://www.westerncpac.com/blogrow
MUTH’S TRUTHS
A Taxing Observation – Jim Gibbons campaigned on a promise not to raise taxes. Though he fell off the wagon once on the room tax earlier this year, he’s otherwise kept that promise.
So we have a candidate who campaigned on a specific platform, was given a mandate to carry out that platform by a majority of voter, and has pretty much honored his campaign pledge. And that’s a bad thing?
While there are many things to criticize about the governor’s administration, keeping the campaign promise he made to the voters shouldn’t be one of them. And yet Gov. Gibbons is hounded and ridiculed regularly, and often with reckless abandon, by his political opponents for digging his boots in the sand and saying he won’t raise taxes.
Which, by the way, is the same thing his Republican primary opponent Brian Sandoval has said.
And his Republican primary opponent Mike Montandon has said.
And, get this, what his likely Democrat general election opponent Rory Reid said this week.
Of course, the big difference is that Gov. Gibbons has put his promise in writing.
Brian Sandoval has not.
Mike Montandon has not.
And Rory Reid certainly will not.
I wonder why? Should we just read their lips and take it as gospel?
OTHER NEWS
Politico: Ensign pulls in less than $33K
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28378.html
RGJ: Governor Jim Gibbons still expects to be re-elected
http://www.rgj.com/article/20091015/NEWS/91015045/1321/NEWS
NYT: GOP Radio Ad Goes After Reid, Biden in Nevada
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/gop-radio-ad-goes-after-reid-biden-in-nevada/
American Spectator: Harry Reid’s $200 Billion Sleight of Hand
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/15/harry-reids-200-billion-sleigh
LV Sun: Harry Reid to Launch TV Ads
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/15/harry-reid-launch-tv-ads-friday-re-election-campai/
The Hill: Reid to Begin 2010 Campaign Ads
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/63267-reid-to-begin-2010-campaign-ads
Politico: Re-Branding Harry Reid
http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1009/Rebranding_Harry_Reid.html
Hot Air: Reid Wants Illegals Counted in Census
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/15/vitter-reid-wants-illegals-counted-in-the-census/
Smith: Former state Sen. Bob Beers out of politics?
http://www.lvrj.com/news/former-state-sen-bob-beers-out-of-politics-you-make-the-call-64478487.html
Schumacher: Gen X Steps Up to Political Plate
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/my-generation-64478377.html
OTHER OPINION
LVRJ: State to spend more money on another examination of tax system
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/study-hall-64478362.html
Ralston: Why Harry Reid has gotten a head start on advertising
http://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/16/why-harry-reid-has-gotten-head-start-advertising/
Powers: Nevada full of running Reids–Harry, Rory, both in trouble
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/10/harry-reid-nevada-politics.html
Sebelius: Reid Announces for Governor
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/various-things-and-stuff/2009/10/15/reid-announces-for-governor/
Gleaner: Gubernatorial candidate unveils plan to paint hundreds of lines across U.S.
http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2009/10/gubernatorial-candidate-unveils-plan-to-paint-hundreds-of-lines-across-us.html
Frederick: Rory Reid Gets the Question Right: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/Rory_Reid_gets_the_question_right_Jobs_jobs_jobs.html
Smith: Lowden’s bake sale: What’s the point?
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/smith/Lowdens_bake_sale_Whats_the_point.html
LV Sun: Zero-tolerance policies in the schools lead to ridiculous punishments
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/15/no-common-sense/
CONSERVA-CALENDAR
Dr. Joe Heck, candidate for Congress in Nevada’s Third Congressional District, will be holding a town hall meeting in Moapa Valley to discuss pending healthcare legislation in Washington DC. The event is open to the public. Saturday, October 17, 2009. 3:30 PM (Doors open at 3:00 PM) at the Moapa Valley Community Center located at 320 North Moapa Valley Boulevard in Overton. For more information, please contact the Heck for Congress campaign at (702) 518-1467
The Leadership Institute. Will be offering 2 days of classes FREE Oct 23 & 24 at the Atlantis casino Reno. Subjects will include. Raising money on the Internet, Organizing with Face book, Raising money with house party’s, Earned media and many more. To get times and Register go to. www.leadershipinstitute.org Setting is limited so Register NOW.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Nevada Senator John Ensign’s fundraising has collapsed. . . . (H)e’s seen his campaign fundraising fall to just $33,000 last quarter, down from almost 10 times that during the previous period…” – Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic Online, 10/16/09
“A new report shows the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the so-called “stimulus plan,” has thus far created just 30,383 jobs nationally and 159 in Nevada.” – Ben Spillman, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 10/16/09
“Sue Lowden, former head of the state GOP, could beat him right now. Danny Tarkanian, son of a famous basketball coach, could beat him. We’re sure Garth Brooks could beat Reid, too, though his status as a Nevadan is about as shaky as John Chachas’.” – Ashley Powers, Top of the Ticket blog, L.A. Times, 10/15/09
“Our sense? These (television) ads represent a gamble by (Sen. Harry) Reid but a necessary gamble. He is in deep political trouble and must find ways to change the way he is perceived by voters before Republicans pick their nominee and the negative ads wars begin.” – The Fix, Washington Post, 10/16/09
“Because he will have so much more money than his opponent – and help from outside groups – (Sen. Harry) Reid can sit back and watch his GOP foes spend their resources to kill each other. The GOP winner is likely to be damaged and broke come June, and even though the Republican cash infusion from outside Nevada will help, Reid will far outspend his rival.” – Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston, 10/16/09
“If there is one idea his opponents are sure to copy from Rory Reid, it is the commissioner using the umpteenth tax study as an excuse not to talk about the looming budget cataclysm.” – Jon Ralston, Flash, 10/15/09
“Since the well-compensated purveyors of ‘state services’ have never been known to say, ‘Whoa, that’s enough!’, even during boom times, it’s hard to imagine what a ‘stable tax structure’ would look like, unless the Legislature proposes to hire Kublai Khan and his Golden Horde to thunder through the Silver State on horseback, looting the villages and burning everything in their path.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, 10/15/09
“Where are the jobs?” – House Minority Leader John Boehner in a letter to President Obama last week noting that the president’s stimulus plan has been a failure
“Republicans won a pair of special elections on Tuesday in Tennessee and Oklahoma, picking up seats held by Democrats for decades. Combined with this month’s capture of the Albuquerque mayor’s office by a Republican for the first time in 28 years, Democrats have reason to be nervous about the approaching November 3 off-year elections.” – John Fund, Political Diary, 10/15/09
“You — particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people — you’re going to have to pay more. And by the way, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive . . . so we’re going to let you die.” – Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich in a 2007 speech at UC Berkely
