Supporters, business leaders extoll Harry Reid’s virtues at roundtable

Posted in News Clips | 08/10/10 | By Jeff Gillan When Nevada votes in November there will be one issue above all others: Who has the solution to pull Nevada out of its worst recession ever? It’s all about the economy and the Harry Reid campaign Monday tried to drive home the point that now is not the time to vote out the majority leader. Inside a trendy Las Vegas restaurant a collection of small business owners, movers and shakers had one message. “…and the one thing that is just…

Social Security Back on the Agenda for GOP Candidates?

Posted in News Clips | 08/10/10 | By Chris Good President Bush's effort to privatize Social Security in 2005 failed, but that doesn't mean, by any stretch, that Republicans have stopped supporting the idea. Republican Senate candidates, in particular, have evinced big changes to the way Social Security works. Nevada's Sharron Angle, most notably, wants to end Social Security as we know it, phasing it out for younger generations. In Colorado, Ken Buck has questioned Social Security's constitutionality, and his primary opponent, Jane Norton, has said that Social Security has…

U.S. Senate bill could put more teachers back in Nevada classrooms

Posted in News Clips | 08/09/10 | By Michael Martinez The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a measure that could provide $10 billion to keep K-12 teachers and support staff employed, including $83 million for Nevada, the state's top education official said. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to return from its August recess in the coming week to pass the final version of the bill. State Superintendent Keith Rheault said that money would pay for salaries, benefits and support services for K-12 school staff. He said the bill…

Lois Tarkanian likes Harry Reid, Danny aids GOP

Posted in News Clips | 08/09/10 | By Delen Goldberg Las Vegas Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian, mother of defeated Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian, pledged her support last week to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Tarkanian, a lifelong Democrat, said she would have voted for her Republican son if he were the candidate chosen to go head to head with Reid, but because he lost the GOP primary, Reid will get her vote. Tarkanian spoke to her son about her decision, and while it led to “interesting conversations,” she said,…

A matter of survival

Posted in News Clips | 08/09/10 | Las Vegas Sun Editorial Social Security and Medicare are a part of America’s social fabric It would be difficult to overstate the positive effect that Social Security and Medicare have had on the lives of Americans since the two massive federal programs were enacted in 1935 and 1965, respectively. Without these programs, the United States would be without a safety net for tens of millions of individuals who rely each year on the monthly checks and medical services essential to their lives. Last week’s…

Women gather to denounce Sharron Angle comments

Posted in News Clips | 08/06/10 | By Delen Goldberg A Las Vegas city councilwoman, a comedian, a lawyer, a restaurant owner, a Realtor and an executive, along with a handful of other Nevada women, gathered today at a downtown café to send U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle a message: Don't tell us how to live our lives. The women, all working mothers, came together to pledge their support for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and to speak out against his Republican challenger, who has said that one parent…

Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice

Posted in News Clips | 08/06/10 | By My News 3 The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice and fourth woman, selecting a scholar with a reputation for brilliance, a dry sense of humor and a liberal legal bent. The vote was 63-37 for President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Five Republicans joined all but one Democrat and the Senate's two independents to support Kagan. In a rarely practiced ritual reserved for the most historic votes, senators sat at their desks…

Group promoting Angle event: Medicare “evil’ and “immoral”

Posted in News Clips | 08/06/10 | By Jon Ralston Obama is a “covert hypnotist” and HIV may not cause AIDS  As GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle attempts to parry charges from Harry Reid's campaign that she is "just too extreme," she is the headliner at an event Saturday promoted by a physician's group that is far out of the mainstream. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which is a major promoter of the Doctors Tea Party in San Diego on Saturday, has given voice to some bizarre theories,…

Sharron Angle’s views rooted in biblical l

Posted in News Clips | 08/06/10 | By Anjeanette Damon When Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a Christian news interviewer this year that “entitlement programs (are) built to make government our God,” she voiced a central tenet of Christian Reconstructionism, according to academics who study the movement. Christian Reconstructionism is a political-religious movement formed in the 1960s and ’70s that seeks to return American society to the rule of biblical law. Any attempt to expand government beyond the dictates in the Old Testament — for example, by establishing Social…

Senate OK $26.1 billion state aid bill to save teachers’ jobs

Posted in News Clips | 08/06/10 | By Lisa Mascaro The Senate on Thursday approved a $26.1 billion state aid bill to save teachers' jobs and extend healthcare for low-income people, but liberal House Democrats may have to swallow hard before accepting some of the offsetting cuts in social programs dear to their hearts. And some more conservative Democrats are expressing concern about more federal spending even though the bill is fully paid for with offsets because Republicans are making the rising federal deficit a major issue in the fall…