Joe Heck and Dean Heller: Where are the Jobs?

Las Vegas, NV — Today’s announcement that Nevada’s unemployment rate increased to 14.5% is yet another reminder to Congressmen Joe Heck and Dean Heller that they should ask themselves this question: where are the jobs? Instead of two weeks of political grandstanding they should get to work on creating jobs for struggling Nevadans.

 

Sadly, it is apparent Heller and Heck believe more in spending their time voting to repeal health insurance reform, which will raise taxes on over 30,000 Nevada small businesses, explode the deficit by $230 billion and burden Nevada families with rising health care costs.

 

But this is no surprise coming from a Republican Party more concerned with appeasing its radical base than growing the economy.

 

In fact, just this morning MSNBC’s “First Read” team sent out this missive:

 

“So after spending months talking about how the Obama administration wasn’t talking about jobs, House Republicans are, well, not talking directly about jobs. First impressions are everything in politics. And the House GOP’s first impression has not been jobs.”

 

And just yesterday Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski told Alaska’s KTVA the Senate “should not spend its time on ‘messaging’ and should instead focus on more pressing economic issues.”

 

Our sentiments exactly.

 

“It’s time Reps. Dean Heller and Joe Heck finally got to work creating jobs,” said Sam Lieberman, Chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party. “Instead of spending their time focused on repealing health insurance reform and engaging in political grandstanding, they should be focused on working across the aisle with Democrats to grow Nevada’s economy and get people back to work.”