Posted in Press | 06/21/10
Sharron Angle’s been hiding from the media and Nevada voters and attempting to whitewash her extreme record on everything from Social Security (kill it!) to Yucca Mountain (build it!). But if the company this GOP Senate candidate keeps is any indication, it will be hard to hide those radical leopard spots for long. A look at Angle’s severely scrubbed campaign website shows she is aggressively touting an endorsement by The Declaration Alliance. The Desert Beacon reports that this group,…
Posted in Press | 06/14/10
Las Vegas, Nev. – As Sharron Angle continues her East Coast trip – meeting with wealthy New York investors that support her agenda to eliminate all oversight of Wall Street and conducting her right-wing-only media tour – news has surfaced that embattled Sen. John Ensign will introduce her tomorrow morning to the Senate Republican Caucus. In order to avoid another debacle like the usually-safe Fox & Friends interview, and because we suspect Sen. Ensign and his staff are very busy…
Posted in Press | 06/14/10
To: Interested Parties From: Nevada State Democratic Party Date: June 14, 2010 Re: ICYMI – Please Watch Heidi Harris. No, seriously. Conservative talker Heidi Harris went on MSNBC’s Ed Show late Friday afternoon, and rhetorically lit up GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s already-floundering campaign. View the blistering clip of Harris on Sharron Angle here. “I think Sharron Angle’s campaign has gotten off to a terrible start,” said Harris, taking Angle to task for hiding out from the media – except…
Posted in Press | 06/10/10
This week seniors across Nevada and the country who are facing high prescription drug prices are beginning to receive $250 checks to help make ends meet, thanks to Rep. Dina Titus and Democrats in Congress. Meanwhile, Joe Heck is letting his right-wing cronies do his dirty work: attacking Rep. Titus for supporting the health insurance reform bill that made those checks possible. Their ad targeting Rep. Titus is filled with lies and misinformation about what health insurance reform will do.…
Posted in Press | 06/10/10
As NevadaRepublicans attempt to unite a fractured party, Brian Sandoval will have todecide whether he will stand with Sharron Angle and her dangerous vision forour state. And there's no time like the present for the Republicancandidate for governor to answer a few simple questions. Does Brian Sandoval agree with Angle's plan to "phase out" Social Security and Medicare? Does he support her views on Nevada’s hospitality workers – that they do work “Americans don’t do”? Does Sandoval agree with Angle…
Posted in Press | 06/10/10
Chants “Drill baby, drill” and promotesderegulation in midst of nation’s worst ever oil spill Meet Sharron Angle, the self-proclaimed “wacky” GOP senate candidate whosepositions are so far right they’re just plain wrong – and dangerous for Nevada. Hear Sharron's "wacky" views from her own mouth in this new video by the Nevada Democratic Party. In her eightyears as a state legislator and during months of campaigning for Senate, Anglehas made it clear that she’s out of touch with all but the most conservativeNevadan.…
Posted in Press | 06/09/10
“[Mainstream Republicans] always try to marginalize me, treat me like I don’t exist. They say, ‘You’re too conservative.’ Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I’m tired of some people calling me wacky" –Sharron Angle, 3/21/2010 Las Vegas, Nev. – Meet Sharron Angle. In eight years as an assemblywoman, she has defined herself as the most out-of-touch legislator in the state, even among other Republicans. She wants to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, said the financial crisis was caused by "too…
Posted in Press | 06/03/10
GOP Senate candidate Sue Lowden’s campaign is so broke, she’s turned to illegally spending general election money and six figure infusions of her own cash to fund her primary bid. A week ago, Lowden admitted to violating federal election laws yet. Campaign manager Robert Uithoven was forced to admit they had illegally spent nearly $18,000 in earmarked general election funds in the Republican primary. Uithoven told the Review-Journal the Lowden campaign was “spending money as it comes in,” dismissing…
Posted in Press | 06/01/10
Lowden Admits Illegal Use of $18,000 in Campaign Funds The Nevada State Democratic Party today filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission over GOP Senate candidate Sue Lowden’s illegal use of general election funds for her primary bid – a violation that Lowden's campaign literally admitted to in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Pressed by the R-J on how the campaign's cash-on-hand equaled less than the amount of general election contributions it had taken in – contributions that cannot be…
Posted in Press | 05/28/10
Three-way GOP Bloodbath too Close to Call As Republican Senate wannabes scratch it out in an ever-tightening primary, the Review-Journal has attempted to spin their latest poll to show Sue Lowden as the ticket to Republican victory in November – never mind that every other report on the poll shows all three frontrunners within the margin of error. The R-J, as usual, ignores their own data that shows that Reid can beat any of the three Republicans they tested –…