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“I’m not the one with the checkbook. The consequences of inaction have been conveyed.” – Robert Uithoven, Sue Lowden’s campaign manager, 4/30/10
Almost exactly four years ago, Sue Lowden’s U.S. Senate campaign was struggling for money.
She was still well ahead of her primary opponents, Sharron Angle and Danny Tarkanian, in her own polling. But she was getting pounded on the "Chickens for Checkups" issue by Patriot Majority, a front group for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Pollster Todd...
Lieutenant governor hopeful Sue Lowden has filed a "no activity" report with her still-unresolved U.S. Senate campaign from 2010, indicating she has not paid any of the $600,000 debt she owes.
The form, attached here, is required because her campaign committee cannot be closed until the Federal Election Commission accepts a debt settlement plan she submitted weeks ago. But nothing prevents her from paying off her creditors, something she has chosen not to do as she runs for lieutenant governor...
FOX's Sean Hannity and Planet Loon's Michele Fiore were on his show together Monday evening and let yours truly have it. Enjoy:
The state Republican Party has no money or respect, but it overflows with chutzpah.
How else to explain Chairman Michael McDonald's remarkable attempt to raise money through a golf tournament next week asking for up to $10,000 in sponsorships and touting a gushing, airbrushed bio of himself?
The Inaugural Chairman's Cup Golf Tournament looks like a parody, but it's real. Why?
"THE CHAIRMAN NEEDS YOUR HELP!" Does he ever!
And how clever is this:
"President Obama has played more than 160 rounds...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership PAC gave $5,000 to lieutenant governor's hopeful Lucy Flores last month, trying to boost her chances in the race to keep Gov. Brian Sandoval from running against him in 2016.
The Searchlight Leadership Fund, which was boosted by about $50,000 from health care PACs, also gave $5,000 to Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager, who is being challenged in a Democratic primary by ex-state Sen. Mike Schneider, who is backed by labor and some progressives...
Good morning, everyone. Beyond the surreality of Harry Reid at a Review-Journal event (none of the higher-ups wore Sharron Angle t-shirts), the strangest moment came not when the Senate majority leader presented his “domestic terrorists” line. That came after RJ columnist Steve Sebelius asked if the senator’s gushing praise for Gov. Brian Sandoval was the reason the Democrats don’t have a candidate for governor.
Suddenly, a man stood up, holding up his literature and asserting he is indeed a...
Good morning, everyone. I hate to say it, but I finally watched the season opener of “Mad Men” last night, and I have to ask: What happened to that series? I remember when the dialogue crackled, when Don Draper was a misanthropic jerk, when Roger Sterling was interesting. Few series have been as good as this one was and then became so – the biggest insult I can give – boring.
I feel like I should see the series through to the end, but it will not be easy. Maybe I should just stick to “Game of...
Good morning, everyone. Two former speakers, a former Ways and means chairman and a former legislator/AG/governor/senator in front of the establishment run by the longest-serving speaker in history? That’s a keeper. Right in front of Dini’s Lucky Club, where I had a nice chat with Yerington Mayor George Dini, right beforehis father’s funeral.
I thought of Mr. Speaker a lot Tuesday, including as drove the easy 75-minute drive from Reno to Yerington, thinking of how much of the road had been...