It's another exciting episode of Nevada Week in Review, people! I'll be on tonight with my 8NewsNow colleague Jonathan Humbert, KVVU Fox 5's Kevin Bolinger and the Review-Journal's Laura Myers to talk about issues ranging from the U.S. Senate race, Rory Reid's budget plan and the fallout from a particularly
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Heck on EMILY’s List
The pro-woman fund is targeting Joe Heck, most particularly for voting against an insurance mandate to cover the HPV vaccine that is linked to cervical cancer. Heck says it did it because it drives up costs, but I have to wonder: Does it drive up costs more than treating an advanced case of cervical cancer? And isn’t an increased cost worth it if it saves lives?
Coburn lied about Ensign affair, too?
DailyKos reviews a recently published account of the C Street residents confronting John Ensign about his affair, and finds some discrepancies from the story told by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn about his role in the matter.
Angle: ‘I’ll be a mainstream senator’
Sharron Angle tells CNN that Harry Reid has misquoted her and that “I’ll be a mainstream senator” if elected.
Heller, Porter make ‘what if’ list
Politico’s Top 10 “What Ifs” of the midterm election wonders what would have happened had Dean Heller or Jon Porter challenged Harry Reid for re-election. We’d have avoided debates about chickens and black jerseys, to be sure, and Reid might be facing a much more difficult job today.
Ensign confronted repeatedly over affair
John Ensign‘s fellow believers had to confront him twice before he finally ended his affair with Cindy Hampton, the New Yorker finds in an article that delves into the quasi-Christian group behind the infamous C Street house.
Some Democrats run from health care
Democrats who cast “no” votes on health care reform earlier this year are highlighting those votes in their re-election bids, while Politico couldn’t locate a Democrat running on having voted “yes” on the law. Maybe if it had included a public option?
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Leaps in logic in Senate races
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Michael Roberson is a Republican candidate for state Senate who is running against incumbent state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse, D-Henderson. He is also a lawyer, having obtained his law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1996, according to the biography on his website.Remember that. It will
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Democrats just don’t want to keep America safe?
Friday, August 27th, 2010
That's the conclusion you might draw from the congressional scorecard of Keep America Safe, the group formed by former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney and warmongering magazine editor William Kristol. Keep America Safe rated each member of Congress using letter grades, and, big surprise, all of Nevada's
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Anti-gay group targets Reid on DADT
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The Family Research Council, a Christian group that opposes gays pretty much all the time and in every respect, has a new ad up attacking Harry Reid for his support of repealing the noisome Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. And it's a whopper. Take a look:
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Rory Reid’s budget plan not a bad place to start
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
"Nevada's state government is fundamentally broken. It is a patchwork of inefficiencies, leftover bureaucracy and duplicative services. It is an organization designed for the 19th century that has inched forward with shortsighted fixes and no long-term planning." -- from Moving Nevada Forward, Rory Reid's plan to fix Nevada's budgetThere are
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Avoiding (some) police shootings: A one-step process
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Editor's note: This column appears in this week's issue of Las Vegas CityLife.The coroner's inquest in the death of Trevon Cole predictably resulted in the finding the slaying of the small-time marijuana dealer by police was "justifiable." This despite conflicting statements and a comedy of errors,
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Love story? Ewwwwwww!
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Sharron Angle's new ad ties Harry Reid directly to House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi and President Barack Obama via legislation the three have pushed, as well as pictures of Reid embracing both (not, thankfully, at the same time). It's part of Angle's overall attempt to pin the Democratic agenda on Reid,
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2006 Angle on Millennium Scholarship: ‘Lose it’
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
When she was running for Congress in 2006 against Dean Heller and Dawn Gibbons, Sharron Angle said in a debate on the show of her favorite radio host Bill Manders that Nevada should "lose it." The state kept the scholarship, and Angle lost.
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The whole enchilada
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Harry Reid has a new ad up that reviews some of rival Sharron Angle's greatest hits, from "Second Amendment remedies" to entitlement programs leading people into idolatry. He even throws in the Scientology thing! It's part of his "just too extreme" meme. Check it here:
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Angle explains ‘domestic enemies’ remark
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Sharron Angle was only saying that some in Congress have failed to follow the Constitution and live up to their oath of office, not that there were traitors within the legislative branch, her campaign explained today.In a 2009 radio interview with Bill Manders, released today by the Harry Reid campaign,
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