Angle’s Selective Memory: Conveniently Forgets Husband Draws Federal Pension

By now we’re used to Sharron Angle’s lies about her plan to kill Social Security, her offensive comments about out-of-work Nevadans and her downright terrifying suggestion that her supporters resort to “Second Amendment remedies”  if she doesn’t succeed at the ballot box.

But Sharron Angle isn’t afraid to engage in a little hypocrisy, either.

This week she told the Las Vegas Sun she “has learned that some public employees – she named Reid - have retirement accounts that are safe from government intervention.”

You mean, like your husband’s retirement account, Sharron?

Angle’s husband was a longtime employee of the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency, in Nevada. And now he’s a retiree in the very same federal pension program Angle claims she’s just now heard about.

According to Angle’s personal financial disclosures, her husband draws pension income from a public employee retirement account earned while he worked for the federal Bureau of Land Management.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, he earned his retirement income – as did the nearly 400,000 Nevada seniors who paid into the system all their working lives and now rely on Social Security to put food on the table, gas in the car and a roof over their heads. Unless, that is, you’re Sharron Angle and you believe Social Security is “difficult to justify.”

“The idea that Sharron Angle just learned about government pensions when she and her husband collect one is ridiculous, and the latest lie from Sharron Angle,” said Phoebe Sweet, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “And to claim that imaginary revelation is behind her 180 on Social Security is, frankly, absurd. The truth is, Sharron Angle believes the program that helps nearly 400,000 Nevada retirees who worked hard all their lives put food on the table – Social Security – should be phased out. Sharron Angle may have selective memory about those ‘mysterious’ retirement accounts, but voters will remember her hypocrisy and he dangerous, extreme position on killing Social Security when they head to the ballot box to defeat her in November.