Tea Party Patriots Leader Calls On Candidates To Repudiate Tea Party Express Support

Posted in News Clips | 07/22/10 | By Evan McMorris-Santoro Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, told me today that in his opinion, candidates who have received endorsements from the ostracized Tea Party Express should work to distance themselves from the group. Speaking after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) debuted her Tea Party Caucus, Meckler told me that candidates who have relied on the Tea Party Express for help -- a list that includes Sharron Angle and Marco Rubio -- should repudiate the group and its controversial spokesperson Mark…

GOP Senate candidate Angle avoids press at own event

Posted in News Clips | 07/22/10 | By My News 4 U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle invited local media to attend a press event in Reno Wednesday morning, but when members of the media tried to ask the candidate questions she didn't answer. To view the video... At the event this morning Angle signed a pledge to repeal the estate tax-or "death tax"- if she's elected, made a few brief statements and walked away with several members of the local media in tow. News 4 Reporter Karen Griffin was one of…

That’s a quick turnaround

Posted in News Clips | 07/22/10 | By Steve Sebelius On Monday, U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle said she was ready to start answering some questions from reporters, something she’s been dodging since she won the Republican primary June 8. (My own list of unreturned calls and e-mails has now reached double-digits). Here’s Angle, quoted by Politico from an interview on her favorite media network. “We have been staffing up for over one month and we’ve also been building our war chest,” Angle said Monday night during an interview with…

A brighter future

Posted in News Clips | 07/21/10 | Las Vegas Sun Editorial Cooperation between state, federal government a key to solar energy growth Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, and Rep. Dean Heller, a Republican, have introduced legislation that would provide money to Nevada for solar energy plants built on federal land. Under the bipartisan proposal, the federal government would auction leases for land to be used for solar developments. The companies that win the leases would pay royalties, and some of that money would be given to the home states…

Solar energy company to bring 278 jobs to NLV

Posted in News Clips | 07/20/10 | By Erin Dostal North Las Vegas officials announced Monday that a new solar project will bring 278 jobs to the economically struggling city. Amonix, a Califoria-based solar power company, announced in May that it would build a manufacturing plant in Southern Nevada. The company has chosen North Las Vegas as its location for the expansion, city officials said in a statement. Mayor Shari Buck and Amonix CEO Brian Robertson planned to discuss the new jobs and the company’s expansion on Tuesday, but said…

Nevada Press: “Sharron Angle is Dead”

Posted in News Clips | 07/20/10 | By Alex Pareene Harry Reid has successfully painted his opponent as kooky and crazy (it helps that she actually is)  With multiple polls showing Harry Reid with a lead, including last Friday's Mason-Dixon survey that had him up seven points, Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston is declaring Republican challenger Sharron Angle dead. Reid had the wherewithal to go negative hard and early, and to define Angle as kooky and extreme. Of course, he was helped in this effort by the fact that by…

Sharron Angle’s take on separation of church and sta

Posted in News Clips | 07/19/10 | By Anjeanette Damon Candidate insists that founders intended for religion to guide policy Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle describes her motivation for seeking elected office as a religious calling. Politics, including her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is God’s purpose for her life — one he has long been preparing her for, she says. “When God calls you, he also equips you and he doesn’t just say ‘Well, today you’re going to run against Harry Reid.’ There is a…

On the Media: Las Vegas papers take sides on Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race

Posted in News Clips | 07/19/10 | By James Rainey The Las Vegas Review-Journal has gone to great lengths to make clear its loathing for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. The newspaper's publisher regularly writes about why the Senate majority leader is "so dumb." The editor gives moral support to Reid's election challenger, "tea party" darling Sharron Angle. Nevada's largest daily newspaper even raised the dead this week in its Reid fatwa. It prominently featured a news story about an octogenarian's obituary because the old woman's relatives made clear in her…

Legislation would grant states revenue from clean-energy projects

Posted in News Clips | 07/18/10 | By Stephanie Tavares Reid, Heller seek to change BLM policy on leasing solar sites Nevada could finally make some money off the dozens of giant solar arrays and wind farms planned for its deserts and mountain peaks if legislation introduced this week by Rep. Dean Heller and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid passes. The Clean Energy, Community Investment and Wildlife Conservation Act would change the system for acquiring federal land for solar and wind developments from revolving around rights of way, a process…

Harry Reid takes the lead over Sharron Angle in Nevada

Posted in News Clips | 07/16/10 | By Chris Cillizza 1. A new independent poll shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  (Nev.) opening up a seven-point edge over former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle -- by far the most encouraging survey of this election cycle for the top ranking Senate Democrat. Reid takes 44 percent to Angle's 37 percent in the poll, which was conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Mason Dixon Polling & Research. Since Angle emerged as the surprise winner of the Silver State's June 8 primary, Reid…