Nevada MAGA Mayhem – Weekly Senate Update
Another week, another round of infighting for Nevada’s Republican Senate candidates. This is Nevada MAGA Mayhem, your weekly update on the latest news from the Nevada GOP Senate Primary.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Sam Brown is still trying to cover up his role as the local president of an extreme anti-abortion group, Brown once again picks partisan politics over Nevadans as Senate Republicans block bipartisan border security measures *again*, Brown’s plans to gut federal agencies comes to light in a scathing new column, and former Senator Richard Bryan wrote an op-ed about Brown’s dangerous plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
SAM BROWN LED EXTREME ANTI-ABORTION GROUP, CONTINUES HIDING ANTI-ABORTION RECORD FROM VOTERS 🫣🫣
New reporting from Axios details MAGA extremist Sam Brown’s tenure as the local president and chairman of an extreme anti-abortion group, the Faith and Freedom Coalition. He is now trying desperately to cover up his prominent leadership role at this radical anti-abortion organization. Yikes!
As recently as October 2023, Brown led the Nevada offshoot of the national Faith and Freedom Coalition, a staunchly anti-abortion organization that has supported an extreme Texas’ ban on the abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and called Roe v. Wade a “moral atrocity.”
Read the highlights here:
Axios: In Nevada, another GOP Senate contender downplays stance on abortion
- The Republican frontrunner in Nevada’s hotly contested Senate race is quietly reframing his work with a conservative group he led last year, de-emphasizing its opposition to abortion and playing up his focus on other issues.
- Why it matters: Sam Brown appears to be the most recent Republican to try to cloud their anti-abortion views ahead of the 2024 election, after a series of elections in which the GOP has been punished for orchestrating the fall of Roe v. Wade.
- Brown … was featured prominently on the state organization’s website before declaring his Senate candidacy last July, according to archives of the site.
- Today, Brown’s footprint on the organization’s website essentially has been erased, aside from a 2022 press release announcing his appointment as the group’s chair.
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AGREE: “NEVADANS CAN’T AFFORD” SAM BROWN’S ☢️TOXIC ☢️PLAN TO RESTART YUCCA MOUNTAIN⛰️
In a new Op-Ed, former Nevada Governor and U.S. Senator Richard Bryan lays out the risks if Sam Brown’s toxic plan to restart the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository became a reality.
Bryan reminds Nevadans of the long-standing bipartisan opposition to Yucca Mountain, as well as the scientific and economic consensus that this project would be a dangerous move for Nevadans.
Read Sen. Bryan’s op-ed here: Nevadans can’t afford a senator pushing for nuclear waste in our state
Meanwhile, Jeff Gunter has continued his attacks toward Brown over his toxic Yucca stance.
SENATE REPUBLICANS AGAIN BLOCK BIPARTISAN BORDER BILL, BROWN SIDES WITH MAGA EXTREMISTS OVER NEVADANS
Yesterday, Senate Republicans again blocked a major Border Security bill that was negotiated by both parties and MAGA extremist Sam Brown has continued to put his own partisan politics ahead of solving problems for Nevadans by refusing to support this bipartisan package of common-sense reforms.
Sam Brown followed Donald Trump’s orders in opposing the first Bipartisan Border Security Deal before the text of the bill was even released. After the bill was released, Brown doubled down on immediate opposition to this bipartisan plan which had the endorsement of border patrol agents.
Brown’s staunch opposition to solving the crisis at the border put him at odds with the National Border Patrol Council, the acting chief of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and key Senate Republicans who all supported the bipartisan package.
SAM BROWN WANTS TO MAKE “PAINFUL” ✂️CUTS✂️ TO CRITICAL FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND AGENCIES
A column by Nevada Current editor Hugh Jackson outlines Sam Brown’s plans to “ax” all federal departments and agencies that have state-level counterparts, including the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Education causing massive cuts to Nevada schools and ending the enforcement of Clean Air and Water Acts.
According to Jackson, Brown is keeping up with tactics he has employed the entire campaign – avoiding answering any questions about his plans and backtracking on the extreme stances he previously had. When asked about the comments he made during the 2022 debate: “Brown’s answer: Pay no attention to that 2022 version of Sam Brown” and “Brown, confronted with his own words, is pretending he never said them.”
Read more about the “painful” cuts Brown wants to make to Federal agencies here:
Nevada Current (OPINION): Brown said he wants to ax multiple federal departments, promised spending cuts will ‘be painful’
- What Brown had just described was cutting federal funding by eliminating entire federal departments, and leaving states to fill the void.
- Now Brown, confronted with his own words, is pretending he never said them.
- He has only been in the state since 2018, and spent almost all of that time laser-focused on launching a career in the U.S. Senate. It would be understandable if the barriers and hardships posed to Nevadans by threadbare public services and programs have escaped his attention.
- Brown will be just another interchangeable Republican cog in the Trump machine, his one job being to do whatever Trump says.
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