Saturday, August 16, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 08/16/2014

THE BILBRAY FILES: ABANDON SHIP!

Pope Paul VI died on August 6, 1978.  His successor, Pope John Paul I died just over a month later.  And I remember a Saturday Night Live skit back at the time where the news anchor for “Weekend Update,” reporting on John Paul’s passing, stopped in mid-sentence and queried, “Hey, didn’t we already do this story?”


aI was reminded of that skit this morning when I woke up and read that liberal congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn lost yet another campaign manager!

“Congressional candidate Erin Bilbray on Friday parted ways with her second campaign manager as the Democrat moved to bolster her struggling bid to defeat U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., in the Nov. 4 general election,” Laura Meyers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. 

“Bilbray and (Erica) Prosser ‘agreed that it would be in the best strategic interest for her to step down as manager,’ the campaign said in a statement.”

Prosser - an abortion rights activist imported from Washington, DC - had only recently come onto the campaign after well-regarded local campaign manager Bradley Mayer abandoned ship. 

Bilbray-Kohn’s campaign has been plagued by one gaffe after another – including infamously calling her Army surgeon opponent “un-American” last fall.  But what’s a comical campaign without a punch line, right?  So get this explanation for the latest wheel to fall off the Bilbray-Kohn apple cart straight from the candidate herself…

“We had a bit of a string of bad luck.”

A string of bad luck?  Seriously?

Isn’t that the same thing General Custer said right before he died at Little Big Horn?  

Isn’t that what Captain Joe Hazelwood said after crashing the Exxon-Valdez? 

Isn’t that what the Soviet Union said after the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl? 

And isn’t that what the Chicago Cubs continue to say to this day?

The new captain of the Titanic-class SS Bilbray-Kohn will be Adriana Martinez, who I’ve heard through the grapevine got stuck with the job after drawing the short straw among remaining staffers and then losing a game of rock-paper-scissors to Democrat political consultant Dan Hart.

The most embarrassing part of this most embarrassing campaign is that Bilbray-Kohn’s job is that of professional campaign trainer. 

Then again, maybe we’re missing something here.  Maybe, just maybe, this entire futile exercise is a case study of what NOT to do in a campaign for future Democrat campaign training programs.

Yeah, that’s the ticket!

MUTH’S TRUTHS

Is it just me, or should illegal aliens be begging to remain here in our country rather than demanding it?  I’m just saying.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Nevada’s public schools remained the worst in the nation for the third year in a row.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal

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