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3:40 PM, UPDATED BELOW WITH REID AD, TOO:
No one has spoken out more against The Education Initiative than Gov. Brian Sandoval.
He has described the margin tax in terms generally reserved for what the world would look like after nuclear armageddon.
So I find it quite delicious that the Clark County Education Association, in the first ad in the battle for education funding this cycle, uses Sandoval in its pitch. No mention of the margin tax. But it's there, in spirit.
Narrator: Everyone agrees...
After Mark Hutchison went up on the air with a relatively small buy and a gauzy, positive ad, Sue Lowden is putting an ad on the air reiterating her attack on the state senator for voting to enable Obamacare.
The ad is a distilled version of a one-minute ad Lowden ran earlier before a non-televised Elko debate in that rural county.
It's a FOX buy. I hear inveterate Republican voters watch that station.
Here's the ad:
A dark money outfit forced to settle with the secretary of state, a vehicle for an independent expenditure war to come and an echo chamber so we can hear them roar: Those are the new PACs registered last week in Nevada.
They are:
►Alliance for America's Future, which had to register, because of that settlement with the SOS.
►Women's Empowerment PAC, which is designed to help female Democratic candidates and run by state Sens. Debbie Smith and Joyce Woodhouse. I read this as a way to get more...
State Sen. Mark Hutchison: Beloved by the most popular elected official in Nevada, fighter against Obamacare, "committed conservative."
So says the lieutenant governor hopeful's first ad, now running on cable stations. This was to be expected. Hutchison is unknown, so the simple strategy is: Boost his name ID, define him (really, he is a conservative!), maybe bait Sue Lowden into spending money, then go after her.
By the way, I had a forensic lip reader look at the spot, and he tells me this is...