Posted in Press | 10/19/10
After it was revealed that a right-wing Republican front group is attempting to suppress the Latino vote in Nevada with an ad urging Hispanics NOT to vote, local Hispanic leaders condemned the ad. They urged local stations not to run the ad, and called on Republican US Senate candidate Sharron Angle and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval, who is Hispanic, to denounce the ad.Watch video of the news conference here. Watch coverage from Las Vegas’ KLAS Channel 8 here. Watch coverage from…
Posted in Press | 10/18/10
Reno Residents Sour on Angle, Just Like Her Hometown Paper, Mayor and ColleaguesReno, NV – Today in Reno, Sarah Palin said common sense is an “endangered species.”And no wonder. After all, she was in town stumping for Sharron Angle. But seriously. It’s easy to see how Palin could believe that Angle has taken leave of her senses. ***View new video here.*** Angle lied about lying to a group of Hispanic students in Las Vegas who she said "look Asian" She's lies pathologically…
Posted in Press | 10/14/10
Las Vegas, NV – While Team Angle attempts to characterize their crazy candidate as a humble grandmother who will meekly walk into the Vegas PBS studio tonight to take on Sen. Reid, the reality is that Sharron Angle is a career politician with extreme views who has been on the ballot every election cycle for the last 15 years.But nevertheless, in honor of the “grandma” narrative they’re so fond of, Nevada Democrats would like to share Grandma Sharron Angle's secret…
Posted in Press | 10/07/10
Controversial figure has endorsed both Heck and Angle, but only Heck has rejected her help “Birther Queen” Orly Taitz has endorsed GOP candidates Sharron Angle and Joe Heck. But only Heck has rejected the controversial figure’s political help, saying he doesn’t even know who she is. Heck campaign officials were quick to say Heck isn’t a Birther, like Taitz, who will campaign here this month for both GOP candidates. And Heck’s campaign told the Las Vegas Sun that Heck doesn’t…
Posted in Press | 10/05/10
Sun reports Angle may be illegally coordinating with another “independent” PAC influencing the race Just days ago, Sharron Angle and her campaign were caught red-handed illegally coordinating with former GOP opponent Danny Tarkanian and his political committee. Now, a shocking tape of a secret meeting between Angle and Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian – who Angle tried to cut a deal with to exit the race in exchange for access to powerful DC Republicans she claimed to have "juice" with…
Posted in Press | 10/03/10
File it under “saw that coming.” Today the Las Vegas Review-Journal “newspaper” endorsed Sharron Angle, the extreme GOP Senate candidate it’s been shilling for since June 8. That was the day Angle upset the RJ’s last chosen candidate, Sue Lowden, in the Republican primary. Back then Sherm called an Angle nomination “suicide.” But since Publisher Sherm Frederick has some kind of strange personal vendetta against Nevada’s senior senator, Majority Leader Harry Reid, it was only natural that he would then…
Posted in Press | 10/03/10
Does the RNC chairman support Sharron Angle's extreme ideas? Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will try to rally an increasingly fractured Nevada GOP in Las Vegas today. Sharron Angle will have to miss Steele’s rally at Nevada GOP headquarters (since, you know, they have one of those now). But why not ask Steel what he thinks of the nation’s most extreme U.S. Senate candidate? How does the leader of so-called mainstream Republicans feel about Angle’s outside-the-mainstream movement? And what…
Posted in Press | 10/01/10
Leaders meet to discuss state’s high domestic violence rate, recall Angle’s extreme positions on restraining orders Today state leaders are meeting in Las Vegas to discuss ways to combat Nevada’s high incidence of domestic violence. But in Sharron Angle’s Nevada, police would have one less tool to prevent domestic violence, and more women would be at risk. The state has the highest rate in the nation of women murdered by men, a shocking statistic that prompted today’s summit. But Sharron…
Posted in Press | 09/28/10
Put corporations ahead of Nevada workers to oppose closing tax loophole for companies that outsource Today Sen. John Ensign and GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle once again put tax breaks for big corporations that ship jobs overseas ahead of working Nevadans. Ensign voted against a bill that would have closed tax loopholes for corporations that outsource jobs, while rewarding small manufacturers that bring jobs to the U.S. But Ensign and Senate Republicans again played politics with American jobs, refusing to…
Posted in Press | 09/24/10
James Roosevelt, former Rep. Barbara Kennelly join senior advocates to call Angle’s plan to kill the program “too extreme" James Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, called Sharron Angle’s position on Social Security “too extreme and dangerous for Nevada seniors” during a conference call today. Roosevelt, whose grandfather signed the program into law in 1935, said the 400,000 seniors in Nevada who receive Social Security must mobilize to defeat Sharron Angle, who has repeatedly said she would get rid of…