Another high profile Republican endorses Harry Reid
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 23:07 This from the Reno Gazette-Journal -
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. has endorsed Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, saying it would be a mistake for Nevadans to elect Republican Sharron Angle and lose Reid’s clout to protect the state’s lifeblood gambling industry.
“It’s disturbing that she (Angle) is taking money from people who oppose gambling,” Fahrenkopf told The Associated Press. “She may not even know it, but Gary Bauer has been a longtime, outspoken opponent of legalized gambling. I did a double-take when I read she was re ceiving assistance from someone who has opposed Nevada’s chief industry for so long.”
To paraphrase an Angle ad - “what more do you need to know?”
Doesn’t it figure that Angle is apparently getting an endorsement from Gary Bauer’s friend, Newt Gingrich. It looks like she’s well into the Citizens for The Republic PAC.
“We just can’t take any more assaults on us tax-wise or otherwise,” Fahrenkopf said. “We need someone strong to protect the state and the industry. No freshman senator would have clout. To trade the most powerful position in the Senate for a freshman senator doesn’t make sense.”
MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren, a Republican, agreed.
“For a small state like Nevada to have the most powerful person in the Senate is not something we should be willing to let go,” he said in a statement. “Simply put: Harry Reid is a better choice for Nevada’s future. He has far more experience and can wield far more authority and influence on our behalf than any freshman senator.”
As usual, neither Angle nor her campaign staff, feel obligated to return phone calls from the RGJ to respond to all this. She and her staff have also not thought it important enough to answer additional questions - although she agreed to prior to the debate - from the night of her televised debate with Reid. Harry Reid had guts enough to respond and answer questions submitted by the public after the debate.
What you need to know here: Follow the big money. Gary Bauer just lanched a $1 million ad campaign against Harry Reid this week. Follow it right to Sharron Angle’s doorstep of her ‘modest home’ in Sparks.
Yup, this is the same woman who thinks it a bad thing that Harry Reid rose from impoverished miner’s son to live in something besides a shack in Searchlight, Nevada.
What would Sharron have done?
-maven
