Posted in Press | 09/01/11
Las Vegas, NV - Third time – not so charming. Last night, on Face to Face with Jon Ralston, Rep. Joe Heck tripled down on calling Social Security a “pyramid scheme”. Heck had previously said he “misspoke” when he compared the program that millions of senior citizens rely on to something Bernie Madoff would have cooked up – then doubled down on calling it a “pyramid scheme” on a conservative talk radio show days after. Then, Heck held a trainwreck…
Posted in Press | 08/30/11
Las Vegas, NV – This morning, the Las Vegas Sun reported that career politician and lobbyist Mark Amodei opposes decades of bipartisan work by Nevada’s Congressional delegation to close the dangerous Yucca Mountain project. In a meeting with the Las Vegas Sun editorial board, Amodei said “he would be happy to keep funding the development of the Yucca Mountain project,” and that he doesn’t “celebrate every time somebody says it’s funded to zero.” In fact, during the interview, Amodei stated he supported…
Posted in Press | 08/19/11
Las Vegas, NV – Well, he might as well have just used Paul Ryan himself. Today, Republican Leader John Boehner held a high-dollar fundraiser for career politician, lobbyist, avid truth-avoider, and Medicare-ending supporter Mark Amodei. Boehner, who shepherded the GOP plan to end Medicare through the House of Representatives earlier this year only to see it thankfully die in the Senate, is not holding any public events with Amodei -- a sign both politicians know how toxic their Medicare-killing plan…
Posted in Press | 08/17/11
Las Vegas, NV – You truly have to see this to believe it. Last night, in response to Shelley Berkley kicking-off her “Focus on Jobs” Tour yesterday, unelected Senator Dean Heller actually said that now is not the time to talk about jobs. That’s right, at a time when Nevada suffers from the highest unemployment rate in the country, Dean Heller doesn’t think “today is the time to talk about it.” When the heck is it time to talk about…
Posted in Press | 08/11/11
After calling it “excellent”, career politician & lobbyist tries to pretend he’s against Medicare-ending GOP plan Las Vegas, NV – Well, you didn’t need a crystal ball to see this coming. After repeatedly being called out for his support for the job-killing Republican plan to kill Medicare, career politician and lobbyist Mark Amodei is now trying to backtrack and hide his support for ending Medicare. This comes after Amodei had previously said that he thinks the Medicare-killing parts of the…
Posted in Press | 08/10/11
Las Vegas, NV – Today, over six months before Nevada’s 2012 Democratic Presidential Caucuses, the Nevada State Democratic Party launched PledgeToCaucus.com, an innovative social networking platform to organize Nevada Democrats for our upcoming caucuses. “With Medicare and Social Security on the Republican chopping block, the stakes of the 2012 campaign could not be higher,” said Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Roberta Lange. “Nevada’s 2012 Democratic Caucuses are the first step in organizing our state’s Democratic voters who will lead the charge…
Posted in Press | 08/08/11
Las Vegas, NV – Facts can be stubborn things, especially for Mark Amodei and Washington Republicans. As Mark Amodei and his Republican friends in Washington desperately try to distract the voters in CD 2 from Amodei’s plan to kill Medicare, their false smears against Kate Marshall are being pulled from the air as fast as they can put them up. The ad had already been discredited by the Las Vegas Sun, and now, in an extremely rare move, Reno television stations are taking…
Posted in Press | 08/03/11
Las Vegas, NV – This week, our nation successfully averted a potential economic meltdown when Congress voted not to default on its obligations. However, unelected Senator Dean Heller chose his hard right-wing TEA Party ideology over doing what's right for the country -- voting for default that would have jeopardized seniors' Social Security checks, veterans' benefits and led to massive job losses. Heller's unreasonableness is getting noticed: As noted by Jon Ralston on Face to Face last night, Heller was “one of…
Posted in Press | 08/02/11
Las Vegas, NV – Unelected Senator Dean Heller today cast an extreme, irresponsible vote to send the United States into a catastrophic default that would have led to a financial meltdown and cost millions of job losses across the United States. Heller's vote was in contrast to responsible conservative Republican leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, and more extreme than dozens of TEA Party members of the Republican caucus who voted in favor of avoiding an economic catastrophe. …
Posted in Press | 08/01/11
Las Vegas, NV – With the Senate set to vote on the bipartisan, compromise legislation to prevent the United States from defaulting on it's financial obligations, unelected Senator Dean Heller has not yet indicated how he will vote on the legislation. So the question is: will Heller vote to appease his TEA Party base who don't believe that a default would devastate Nevada by leading to massive job losses, seniors and veterans not receiving their benefits and skyrocketing interest…