Thursday, August 21, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 08/21/2014

HILLARY CLINTON: TOTAL DIVA

Laura Myers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal has the poop on Madame Hillary Clinton’s upcoming six-figure speech at UNLV, and the former First Lady and Secretary of State loves to be pampered like a queen.

“Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to travel in style,” Myers writes.  “She insists on staying in the ‘presidential suite’ of luxury hotels that she chooses anywhere in the world, including Las Vegas.  She usually requires those who pay her six-figure fees for speeches to also provide a private jet for transportation - only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 or larger will do.


“And she doesn’t travel alone, relying on an entourage of a couple of ‘travel aides,’ and a couple of advance staffers who check out her speech site in the days leading up to her appearance, much like a White House trip, according to her contract and supporting documents concerning her Oct. 13 speech at a University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation fundraiser.”

Interestingly, while her hubby, Bill Clinton, spoke at UNLV two years ago and pocketed a cool $250,000, his wife, performing the exact same job, will “only” be paid $225,000.

So much for equal pay for equal work!

Madame Clinton also insists that she “be the only person on the stage during her remarks,” “will remain at the event no longer than 90 minutes” and “will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people.” 

She also “won’t allow any press coverage or video- or audio-taping of her speech.  The only record allowed will be made by a stenographer whose transcription will be given only to Clinton. The stenographer’s $1,250 bill, however, will go to the UNLV Foundation.”

Looks like Hillary is trying to out-diva Barbra Streisand!

BECKY HARRIS: TOTAL RINO

“In a piece of campaign literature,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Steve Sebelius, “state Senate District 9 candidate Becky Harris declares she’s ‘not your typical Republican.’  In fact, her stances on education funding, certain taxes, and other issues sound downright Democratic.”

In other words, while she may not be your typical conservative Republican, she’s absolutely your typical moderate establishment Republican; what you might call a “Sandoval Republican.”

In a 30-minute interview with Sebelius, Harris declared that she might support Michael Bloomberg’s gun control petition now being circulated to require background checks for private gun sales, demurring, “I don’t know that I don’t support the petition.”

Oh, come on.  Of course she does. 

Harris was a Democrat until just a couple years ago and appears to have switched parties out of pure political calculation, not some change in philosophical heart.  Indeed, Sebelius writes that “Harris said she’s not philosophically opposed to requiring background checks for all gun sales.”

Harris also divulged in the interview that if elected she intends to screw the state’s mining industry to the wall! 

“Harris said she will vote for Senate Joint Resolution 15, which will appear on the November ballots as Question 2, a measure to repeal a constitutional cap on taxation of the net proceeds of minerals in Nevada. That would allow the Legislature to pass a new mining tax at its next session,” reported Sebelius.  “And why? Harris says in her flier that ‘…our schools are underfunded and overcrowded,’ and that she wants to reduce class size, pay teachers more and expand reading programs.”

Spoken like a true Democrat.

Harris went on to declare that electing her “as a moderate Republican would be a fantastic thing because I can do great things for everybody.”

Fantastic things?  Like constrict gun rights and raise taxes to spend ever more money on our failed public education system.  What’s so “fantastic” about that?

The only thing worse than voting for a gun-grabbing, tax-hiking, big-spending Democrat is voting for a gun-grabbing, tax-hiking, big-spending Republican.  Such Republicans, as my friend Grover Norquist of American for Tax Reform is wont to say, ruin the brand. 

Indeed.  Better the real Democrat than a fake Republican.  In the Senate District 9 race, I think I’m going to urge conservatives to boycott voting for either candidate.  No sense in aiding and abetting a fraud.

LET SUMMER BE SUMMER

Do you agree that the school year shouldn’t start until after Labor Day?  Cast your vote in my online poll by clicking here: http://www.muthstruths.com

And speaking of letting summer be summer, the Muth Family is lighting out this morning for our annual two-week camping trip at Campland on the Bay in San Diego.  Will return after Labor Day.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Robert Uithoven, an adviser to (Republican attorney general candidate Adam) Laxalt’s campaign, suggested Laxalt probably wouldn’t agree to debate on ‘Ralston Reports.’  ‘If we’re going to agree to debate, it would have to be before an audience that is impartial,’ Uithoven said. ‘And that’s not going to happen on that show.’” – Las Vegas Review-Journal, 8/19/14

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