Tuesday, March 13, 2012

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 03/13/2012

FINGER-LICKIN’ CHICKEN RIC

Ric Truesdell is running against Bob Beers (and others) for a vacant Las Vegas city council seat. 

His son-in-law, Steve Redlinger, is running his campaign.  Redlinger is a Democrat campaign consultant who is also a fundraiser for Obama.  Yet Truesdell wants Republican voters to believe HE’S the true conservative in the race.

Another thing: Truesdell is afraid to debate Beers in a public event – and ducked just such a debate Monday night that was hosted by Alan Stock of KDWN 720 AM.  But he’ll attack Bob in the mail. He’ll attack him on Twitter.  He’ll attack him on TV and radio. 

But in person?  Bawk!  Bawk! Bawk! 

Just what our local government needs, right?

ENDING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

“Would ending the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause, which guarantees U.S. citizenship to most American-born babies, curtail illegal immigration?” asks Political Diary’s Jason Riley. “A new report from the National Foundation for American Policy says that repealing birthright citizenship could be counterproductive.”

“Although proponents of a change to the Citizenship Clause often argue that changing the clause will deter undocumented immigrants from coming to the U.S. and having babies here, thereby reducing undocumented migration, evidence from other countries suggests that a change to the birthright citizenship rule will not be a deterrent to unauthorized migration," writes Margaret Stock, the author of the report and a former professor of national security law at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

OK, fine. Then what’s the harm in passing such a change, hmm?

NORQUIST VS. SANDOVAL

Anjeanette Damon of the Las Vegas Sun reported the following on Tuesday morning:

“Anti-tax organizer Grover Norquist reportedly called Gov. Brian Sandoval ‘a rat’ for extending a 2009 tax increase that he had promised to let sunset, according to an account of a conservative gathering in New York by the online news site BuzzFeed.”

I checked in with Grover to verify the BuzzFeed report and here’s the email response I received:

“I have received two e-mails asking if I called Gov. Sandoval a ‘rat’ in a speech last night in NYC.  I don't think so.  I called him out at a meeting of 200 New York conservative leaders when I pointed out that we fought and stopped any tax hike in Washington in 2011, and I expect that with the November 2012  elections coming we will have similar success in 2012.

“I added that this was not a fluke of DC leadership.  Forty-five states reduced spending rather than raise taxes in 2011. Only five states raised taxes: New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland and Nevada.  In the first four states the Democrats owned the House, Senate and Governor.  Only in one, Nevada, were taxes raised by a Republican governor.  Sandoval is alone in folding before the spending interests.

“Ten years or twenty years ago he might have been one of many...now he stands alone as an R governor who decided not to govern but to raise taxes rather than reform government.”

‘Tis true.

DON’T HEDGE, SIGN THE PLEDGE

Every Republican legislator who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge voted AGAINST the $620 million tax hike last year.  And every Republican who voted FOR the tax hike refused to sign the Pledge.  So if you don’t want your taxes raised in Nevada, it’s simple: Tell candidates: “If you don’t sign the Pledge, you don’t get my vote.”

To download a copy of the Pledge, go to http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CitizenOutreach/e875164de7/3add5de2bd/e271a11ecb

A RATHER UNUSUAL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

Lauren Scott has filed to run as a Republican candidate for Nevada’s Assembly District 30, the seat currently held by Democrat Debbie Smith, who is abandoning the seat for a shot at the State Senate next year.

Scott was as an active-duty member of the US Air Force for nearly seven years. She served three years in Nevada at the Tonopah Test Range as a military firefighter in support of F-117A Stealth Fighter operations. She was awarded two Achievement Medals and a Commendation Medal for her service during Operation Desert Storm. She received an honorable discharge in 1994.

Formerly a Democrat, Scott registered as a Republican for the first time last year.

“I will bring leadership and common sense back to the Republican Party,” she promised in a press release announcing her candidacy, complaining that “Republicans want to lower taxes, which decreases revenue and decimates social services and higher education.”

Uh-oh.

Scott’s press release also noted that, “If elected, Lauren would be the country's first openly transgender person to serve as a state legislator.”

Yes, you read that correctly.

THE IRISH PRIEST AND THE IRISH COP

Here’s a story you probably haven’t heard before about Michael McDonald, the former Las Vegas city councilman who quite possibly could be the next chairman of the Nevada Republican Party.

Back in the mid-90s, an Irish priest from New York was driving down the Strip on St. Patrick's Day towards what used to be the Dunes Hotel and was stopped for speeding by then-Metro police officer McDonald – a good Irishman himself. McDonald smelled alcohol on the priest's breath and then noticed an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.  

“Sir, have you been drinking?” he asked.

“Just water,” replied the priest.

“Then why do I smell wine?” McDonald asked.

The priest looked down at the empty bottle and said, “Good Lord! He's done it again!”

(No, Assemblyman Sherwood, this isn’t a true story.)

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Obama: ‘I'm going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas.’  Guess he'll be voting GOP in November, too, then.” – Tweet from former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson
 

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