Posted in News Clips | 09/28/10 | Erin Dostal
U.S. Reps. Dina Titus and Shelley Berkley met with a crowd of about 100 friendly supporters Monday to discuss benefits of the recently passed health care bill alongside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.Although the event was billed as a chance to clarify elements of the health care bill, it also served as a campaign stop. Both Berkley and Titus are seeking re-election in November, and both supported the bill, which passed in March.Sebelius said she had…
Posted in News Clips | 09/28/10 | Cristina Silva
President Barack Obama's health care chief said Monday that animosity toward health care reform will continue to wane as insured and uninsured Americans learn more about the sweeping legislation that was signed into law in March.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blasted health insurance companies for denying coverage to the nation's neediest patients. She said the health care law will foster a competitive market that forces companies to provide affordable and thorough coverage or lose customers."No longer do insurance…
Posted in News Clips | 09/28/10 | My News 4
Two Nevada Assembly members blasted GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle today over statements she made about autism during a 2009 tea party event.Nevada State Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblyman James Ohrenschall, D-Las Vegas, called the former state legislator's comments about children living with autism "callous" and said Angle believes that those children and their families don't deserve health insurance.Democrats last week emphasized Angle's opposition to mandating insurance coverage for autism and pregnancy by using a video of…
Posted in News Clips | 09/27/10 | My News 4
Nevada's Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle says she wants to save the nation's Social Security system. However, KRNV News 4 has uncovered a KNPR.org radio interview from May 19, 2010, in which Angle says she wants to privatize the program. Here is the verbatim from the interview: Host: "You talked about privatizing Social Security, which makes me think offering the option of a private account. Are you talking about offering that option along with or compared to Social Security…
Posted in News Clips | 09/27/10 | Lisa Jo Rudy
Whose problem is autism? Who should pay for the needs of families with autistic members? Why should anyone outside the autism community give a !@#$ for someone else's disabled kid, teen, or adult child? Yesterday, we heard from two very different voices. In one corner, Sharron Angle - who is running against Harry Reid in the Nevada Senate race - managed to anger autism advocates across the nation yesterday with a callous approach to health care. Not only did…
Posted in News Clips | 09/27/10 | LV Sun Editorial
Angle cannot run away from her words no matter how hard she tries; The more Nevadans learn about Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle, the more they are realizing just how out of touch she is with the residents of this state, even on policies that have enjoyed broad bipartisan support. As reported last week by the Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, a video of Angle at a Tea Party rally last year captured her mocking a 2009 Nevada law that requires health…
Posted in News Clips | 09/27/10 | Jon Ralston
Such as Big Autism or Big Colonoscopies or Big PregnantWomen, perhaps? That last one may be politically incorrect, but it is political correctness Angle cited last month in a speech to the Association ofHealth Underwriters on August 10 in explaining her opposition to mandates oninsurance companies. Recent revelations about Angle's disdain for mandates -- her vote against including colon cancer screenings and her deriding autism coverage-- reflect a consistent belief that government should not tell insurancecompanies what they have to…
Posted in News Clips | 09/24/10 | Fox 5 News
Republican Accused Of Insulting Autistic AmericansThe national Autistic Self Advocacy Network on Friday called for Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle to apologize for a statement she made regarding health care and autism treatment.Video of Angle speaking at a 2009 Tea Party rally surfaced this week, where the former state legislator slams Democratic health care policies.“You’re paying for things that you don’t even need, they just the latest one is everything they want to throw at us is covered under…
Posted in News Clips | 09/24/10 | Steve Sebelius
Sharron Angle refused to be interviewed for this story.And we really tried, too.After trying unsuccessfully to e-mail, telephone or otherwise convey messages to Angle's campaign Press Secretary Jerry Stacy, we met with two of Angle's newer staffers, Communications Director Jarrod Agen and Deputy Communications Director Ciara Matthews. We explained all the reasons Angle should agree to be interviewed, not least of which was the fact that she's asking Southern Nevadans -- you readers -- to make her their United States…
Posted in News Clips | 09/24/10 | AP Las Vegas
Casino magnate George Maloof is the latest gambling executive to rally behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.The Palms hotel-casino owner will endorse Reid Thursday at a news conference featuring business owners. He joins executives from MGM Resorts International and Harrah's Entertainment who also say Reid is a friend to the state's business leaders.Reid is in a tight race against Republican Sharron Angle.Maloof's endorsement is not surprising. Maloof held a fundraiser with President Barack Obama earlier this year that aimed to…