MUTH'S TRUTHS 10/03/2013

THE LAST GREAT GOP VOTER REGISTRATION PROGRAM

For all the talk about Republican voter registration efforts in Nevada and all the money being spent on third-party and independent voter registration programs, there’s only been one truly successful voter registration program in Nevada over the last 20 years…thank you very much.

In October 1994 – the year John Ensign defeated Rep. Jim Bilbray and was elected to Congress - Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Nevada by 11,520 voters. 

In January 1995, I was elected chairman of the Clark County Republican Party.  And using funds raised by Ensign and under the direction of GOP uber-consultant Benay Stout, we launched an innovative, never-been-done-before voter registration program that then-Clark County Registrar of Voters Katherine Ferguson threatened to sue us over to stop.

In October 1995 – just before the Nevada GOP hosted the Western States Republican Leadership Conference at the new MGM Grand, and after I moved up to executive director of the Nevada GOP under then-Chairman John Mason - Nevada became a Republican-majority state for the first time since Reconstruction.

In March of 1996, Dan Burdish took my job as executive director of the Nevada Republican Party and continued the program with money raised by then-Nevada GOP Finance Chairman George Harris.  By October of that year, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 4,211 voters for the ’96 election…a lead it maintained for the duration of the 90s before Burdish, Harris and I all moved on from party politics.

How’d we do it?

 

As the Joker said in The Dark Knight, “When you’re good at something, never do it for free.” 

We take Visa and MasterCard.

SEN. ELBERT GUILLORY

For those of you who missed Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory at September’s First Friday Happy Hour in Las Vegas, my old friend Star Parker has a video of the Democrat-turned-Republican state legislator speaking at the CURE Pastor's Policy Summit recently.  In it, Guillory speaks “about freedom and God in government -- something you never hear from the liberal black establishment.”

Click here

RALSTON RETORTS!

In effort to bash conservative Sen. Barbara Cegavske, Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger, Jon Ralston, displays remarkable ignorance of Nevada’s ID cards! http://ralstonretorts.com/?p=62

Also, Ralston’s cup of sour grapes & whine was served up yesterday by Lowden's "inferior" team of "clowns." http://ralstonretorts.com/?p=69

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Finally, Ralston “reported” today in his Morning Flash that GOP candidate Vick Gill will be running for the state senate in District 9 next year…which I reported on in Silver State Confidential over a week ago. 

Talk about Pony Express!  Ralston’s “flash” is more like a slow crawl.

THE BILBRAY FILES

Last week, Emily Davis, Deputy Communications for the Congressional Leadership Fund, called Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-without-the-Kohn to task for ignoring the Keystone XL pipeline issue (along with just about every other issue other than abortion)...

As you may have read in Ralston Reports, Erin Bilbray-Kohn is having trouble deciding what to say on policy issues. For example, her first draft on energy doesn’t even mention the Keystone XL pipeline, which reached its five-year delay anniversary last week.

It’s not surprising she’s ducking the issue given her record of supporting liberal policies and a troubling pattern of not answering questions on key issues. A new report out this week shows how her fellow Democrats are helping ship money and jobs to the Middle East by blocking the Keystone pipeline.

As reported in the DailyCaller, the continued delay of the Keystone pipeline means:

- The U.S. will send up to $7.7 billion more to oil suppliers in the Middle East from 2013-2015.

- Americans lose out on 42,000 jobs and $2.1 billion in earnings.

- Our nation loses out on approximately 700,000 barrels a day in imported energy from Canada.

"Since career Democrat operative Erin Bilbray-Kohn wants to vote in Congress, does she support or oppose Keystone Pipeline jobs and energy?" Davis asked.  "Nevadans deserve to know the views of a candidate running to represent them."

Indeed.

FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR

This month’s First Friday Happy Hour is this Friday, October 4 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the Blue Martini in Town Square on the south end of the Strip in Las Vegas.

Our VIP guest-of-honor at tomorrow night's First Friday Happy Hour will be our 2014 Courage Under Fire award recipient, Amanda Collins.  If this courageous young woman’s name is unfamiliar to you, click here and read one of the many stories about being sexually assaulted in a UNR campus garage and how she’s tried valiantly to change Nevada law so that her experience isn’t visited upon other unarmed college students in the future.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Average work hours have dropped to below 30 in the three lowest-wage sectors since ObamaCare passed.” – Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform