Commentary: Who’s Left for Angle to Anger

Posted in News Clips | 10/20/10 | 8 News Now Is there anyone Sharron Angle hasn’t offended yet? Since she announced her candidacy, Angle’s gaffes and controversial positions have piled up to the point where she has seemingly alienated just about anyone and everyone in and out of Nevada.If you think I’m exaggerating, let’s recap all the groups, towns and, yes, countries that have taken issue with the Republican Senate candidate in recent months.Latinos – Angle invoked the ire of the Latino community withher campaign ad targeting Harry Reid on immigration.…

Angle silent after presented with Nevadan’s questio

Posted in News Clips | 10/19/10 | MyNews4 GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle is still not answering questions submitted by KRNV News 4's viewers after last week's Senatorial debate in Nevada.News 4 first contacted Angle's representatives on Friday with questions posed after Thursday night's debate between her and Sen. Harry Reid.News 4 continued to call and send emails yesterday (Monday) and today (Tuesday) with no response yet.Reid did respond on Friday afternoon, and News 4 produced that story Monday-read it here.Here are the questions posed to Angle:Please give a…

Harry Reid: Give extra $250 to Social Security recipients

Posted in News Clips | 10/18/10 | Karoun Demirjian When Congress reconvenes after the election, lawmakers will vote on a measure to give an extra $250 to Social Security recipients, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised Monday.Democrats are billing the measure as a necessary helping hand for seniors in a year when they won’t be seeing any incremental increase in their benefit checks, as usually happens from year to year.Since 1975, those annual increases have been tied to inflation – but according to the Labor Department, there hasn’t been…

Sharron Angle’s war on Canada

Posted in News Clips | 10/18/10 | Adam Serwer Last week during their debate, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told Democrat Harry Reid to "man up." But it's time for Angle to own up to her own incessant race-baiting over immigration.A couple of weeks ago, Angle released an ad with sinister overtones showing Latino "illegal immigrants" sneaking through a "border fence." It even uses a stock photo Republican Senator David Vitter deployed in a similar advertisement. The ad restates a number of debunked claims about Reid's record on immigration, but the most egregious…

Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to m

Posted in News Clips | 10/18/10 | Jon Ralston As more of the video surfaces from GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle's meeting last week with Rancho High School's Hispanic kids, the more bizarre it gets. Elsewhere on this blog, I have posted the video of her claiming an infamous still she and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter used in an ad, an incendiary image of Hispanic thugs, may not have been an image of Hispanics. That was nutty enough. But at the same meeting, according to video I have obtained…

Rural Nevada paper endorses Reid as mining champ

Posted in News Clips | 10/15/10 | Bloomberg Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has picked up the support of a rural newspaper in northern Nevada that says it doesn't like his liberal views but that the state's mining industry can't afford to lose his clout in Congress.The Elko Daily Free Press says longtime readers in the GOP stronghold 300 miles east of Reno "will be shocked and dismayed" it is not supporting the tea party-backed conservative Republican Sharron Angle.The paper endorsed Republican John McCain against Barack Obama. It…

Substance over extremism

Posted in News Clips | 10/15/10 | LV Sun Editorial Nevadans have been bombarded by 30-second television ads during this U.S. Senate campaign. But Thursday, during the one-hour debate between Sharron Angle and Sen. Harry Reid, Nevadans finally had the chance to see both candidates, side by side, talk about the issues.For nearly the entire campaign, Angle has robotically avoided deviating from prepared scripts given to her by the Washington handlers shepherding her campaign. Part of the reason for them doing so is to keep the public from finding out…

Largest newspaper in northeast Nevada endorses Harry Reid

Posted in News Clips | 10/15/10 | Karoun Demirjian The largest paper in Nevada’s conservative northeast came out with its Senate endorsement today – for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.With a circulation of 6,500 in a city of about 18,000, the Elko Daily Free Press isn’t used to its editorial page sparking national notoriety.But Elko is the biggest population center in Nevada’s predominantly rural 2nd District, where Republicans outnumber Democrats by a ratio of about 2 to 1.The paper’s editorial page usually reflects the spirit of those numbers. But,…

Sharron Angle to Harry Reid: It’s Not Your Job to Create Jobs

Posted in News Clips | 10/14/10 | Lucy Madison In tonight's Nevada Senate debate, Republican candidate Sharron Angle hammered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid over a legislator's role in generating economic growth. "Once again, Harry Reid: It's not your job to create jobs," she said, after moderator Mitch Fox asked both candidates if job creation was part of a Senator's job description."I believe my job is to create the policies that will encourage private sector to do what they do best," she said."That'd be a no," Fox prompted, pushing…

Reelect Reid

Posted in News Clips | 10/14/10 | Reno News & Review On Jan. 5, 2008, a Truckee Carson Irrigation District canal was breached and the escaping water flooded Fernley, putting more than 3,000 people—perhaps a third of the community—out of their homes, which were filled with 3 to 6 feet of water.When word reached U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s office, he moved quickly. The White House and federal agencies were contacted to make sure assistance would quickly become available. Reid and his Republican colleagues Sen. John Ensign and Rep. Dean Heller jointly…