Due to yet another mail server glitch over the weekend, here’s Saturday’s NN&V a couple days late.  We apologize for this inconvenience which was clearly caused by global warming. – Publisher

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

• Tark Attacks: Penalties, Fouls and Cheap Shots (Chuck Muth) – At a meeting of the Mt. Rose Republican Women on Thursday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian was asked what he was going to do to ensure that his GOP primary race doesn’t become a scorched earth campaign where whoever comes out on top is so wounded that they can’t win in the general election against Harry Reid.  Here’s how Danny answered….

• Danny Tarkanian looks like another Harry Reid up close (“Average American”) – Clouds are forming over the Tarkanian camp as we speak. Both the Review Journal and the Las Vegas Sun recently covered an emerging story about a land and loan deal that seems from a distance to be the same old story of bank fraud combined with poor management of a business.

• Brian Krolicki’s Big Announcement (Elizabeth Crum/The Blog) – Brian Krolicki announces that his candidacy for the U.S. Senate is….

• Americans are becoming more pro-life (Don Nelson) – Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Allison Gaulden’s op-ed “There are good reasons to celebrate Roe v. Wade” illustrates important differences between pro-life and abortion advocates on abortion issues, and who is shaping the direction America is heading on abortion.

• Don’t Miss the Reagan Revolution in Nevada! (Karri Bragg) – Join Citizen Outreach Foundation as we kick off our newest project with a Ronald Reagan Birthday Party one week from today at the M Resort & Casino on South Las Vegas Boulevard. 

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

SURVEY SAYS!

Should Republicans now abandon being “the party of no” and start compromising with President Obama and congressional Democrats?

·         Yes

·         No

·         Hell no!

To cast your vote in today’s online survey, click here!

MUTHS TRUTHS

On Friday, Sen. Harry Reid said: “President Obama and I have worked closely to stop dumping taxpayer money into Yucca.”  Only…that’s not true. 

As blogger Randi Thompson points out, “it’s NOT taxpayer dollars.  Its nuclear power users’ dollars.  And the government continues to collect those monies from these power users and place them in a fund to build Yucca, as the law requires.  But if Yucca is ‘dead’ and there is no alternative, then they are committing a fraud by continuing to collect these monies under false pretense.” 

Congress doing something under false pretenses? Say ain’t so, Joe.

TARK TALES

U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian – who has been critical of fellow Republican opponent Sue Lowden who donated to Harry Reid’s campaign way back in the 1980s – was asked on Thursday about his own contributions to liberal Democrat Shelley Berkley in 1998 when she was running in a tight race against conservative former judge Don Chairez for conservative John Ensign’s congressional seat in Las Vegas. 

Here’s Danny’s response:

“Shelly Berkley was on the Board of Regents when I was at UNLV when UNLV was forcing/firing my Dad from his position.  There were two members of the Board of Regents that fought the President and tried to keep my dad’s job – Lonnie Hammargren and Shelley Berkley.  I donated to Shelly Berkley because of what she did to help my dad keep his job.”

So Sue Lowden and her husband making contributions to Harry Reid in an effort to protect their business and all the employees who worked for them in the 1980s was wrong, but it was absolutely OK for Danny to give money to a liberal Democrat congressional candidate simply because that candidate had done a favor for Danny’s dad?

This guy has a lot of nerve casting stones from his own glass house.

In any event, we now know that Danny is perfectly willing to sell out his political and philosophical principles; we just don’t know yet for what price they’d be for sale, or if it only applies to issues where his family is personally the direct beneficiary.

Some paragon of virtue there.

OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

The Next Party-Switching RINO?

“Is Florida Governor Charlie Crist the next Arlen Specter? . . . As Mr. Crist’s poll numbers sink, he may have no choice but to drop out of the GOP Senate primary and run as an independent or Democrat.  Mr. Crist’s dwindling support can be chalked up to the resurgence of small-government, hard-line conservatives angered by Mr. Crist’s tax hikes and his embrace of President Obama’s stimulus back in February.

“On Tuesday, Quinnipiac reported that Mr. Crist now trails his GOP senate rival Marco Rubio by 44% to 47%. Half a year ago, Mr. Crist led by nearly 30 points was outraising the little-known Mr. Rubio at a 12-to-one pace. Last quarter he raised only about 10% more money than Mr. Rubio did.”

- Allysia Finley of Political Diary

(Editor’s Note: Marco Rubio’s surge last summer began shortly after his campaign jettisoned Brian Seitchik, currently the campaign manager for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian in Nevada.  But I’m sure that was just a coincidence.  Well, pretty sure. OK, I don’t believe in coincidences either.)

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“So far, I haven’t heard (Republican U.S. Senate candidate) Sue (Lowden) name a single department, agency, or program she would eliminate. . . . Without objective cuts in government spending there can be no decrease in the overall tax burden. . . . Tax cuts follow spending cuts. So what spending does Sue want to cut? As a disabled veteran, I can think of waste at the VA. I see no sacred cow and when it comes spending cuts; I think scorched-earth.” – Blogger Mark Anderson

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