Posted in News Clips | 08/17/10 | By Ashley Powers
It has been an undoubtedly strange campaign season here in the Silver State: Nevada’s economy is in the toilet, and yet its Senate candidates keep sparring over theology. Sharron Angle (R-Southern Baptist) has taken some hits for describing her campaign as a "calling" from God and dismissing federal entitlement programs as a form of idolatry. On Monday, Angle and her opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Mormon) – who are neck-and-neck in the polls – whacked each other over a…
Posted in News Clips | 08/16/10 | By Erin Kelly
While U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Republican U.S. Senate challenger Sharron Angle, a former assemblywoman, debate whether the federal government has helped or hurt Nevada, economists say there’s little doubt the state would be in even worse shape without aid from Washington. Money from the feds — including about $3.2 billion in stimulus funds awarded to the state from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus bill — has helped prevent layoffs of state workers and extend…
Posted in News Clips | 08/16/10 | By Marianne Weinzinger, Pahrump
Regarding Bob Jack’s Friday letter to the editor, headlined “Candidate’s detractors are missing the point”: Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle may be a very personable individual and look people in the eye when meeting them, but does that qualify her to represent us in the U.S. Senate? Her ideas on Social Security are so off that it is scary. Ms. Angle’s latest statement regarding private accounts for a portion of Social Security, if implemented, would devastate even more hard-working Americans’…
Posted in News Clips | 08/16/10 | By Eric Kleefeld
Sharron Angle has taken a long, winding journey on Social Security -- only to end up back in the same place, at least in some respects. She started off calling for the program to be phased out, then scrambled to walk that position back, and is now kind of creeping back toward the original -- perhaps unintentionally. In many ways, Angle's motions on this big issue reflect the classic pattern of a political campaign: Go to extremes for the primary,…
Posted in News Clips | 08/16/10 | By Michael Ray, Incline Village
These are Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle’s Ten Commandments for Nevada: 1. The idolatry of unemployment insurance, Social Security and Medicare must be forever removed from our midst. 2. Blame Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for everything — forget about Gov. Jim Gibbons, Sen. John Ensign, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the Bush ownership society, please. 3. Avoid the media — my words will be used against me. 4. Any day I can raise money without answering real questions…
Posted in News Clips | 08/13/10 |
Social Security is turning 75 years old and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a rally for senior citizens in Reno Thursday to celebrate. Social Security has been a hot topic in the race for Reid's Senate seat against Republican opponent Sharron Angle. Angle says Reid is trying to kill Social Security by raiding its "trust fund." Reid is reminding voters of Angle's words during before the Republican primary election. At that time, Angle said Social Security needed to be…
Posted in News Clips | 08/11/10 | By Michael Martinez
A $26 billion federal jobs bill to protect and restore jobs for 300,000 teachers and non-federal government workers was approved on Tuesday by the U.S. House and signed by President Barack Obama, sparking local education officials to begin identifying critical areas where teachers might be hired. About $10 billion of the jobs bill to prevent election year layoffs would go to hire teachers and some classroom support staff, with $83 million potentially coming to Nevada, including between $12 million to…
Posted in News Clips | 08/10/10 | By Jeff Gillan
When Nevada votes in November there will be one issue above all others: Who has the solution to pull Nevada out of its worst recession ever? It’s all about the economy and the Harry Reid campaign Monday tried to drive home the point that now is not the time to vote out the majority leader. Inside a trendy Las Vegas restaurant a collection of small business owners, movers and shakers had one message. “…and the one thing that is just…