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The Spectacle Blog
Given what has transpired over the past week, I think it’s important that we begin setting our sights not only on House members who betrayed our trust, but also the leadership that encouraged and enabled it. That’s why I’m jumping in early on the Nevada race to do my part.
Perhaps not surprisingly given the kind of leadership America is seeing in Washington, Republicans — and more important — conservatives are blessed with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to candidates. Across the country, conservatives committed to our nation’s founding principles are stepping up and challenging Democrats in local and state elections.
Nevada is no different. In the Senate race to defeat Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, we have several candidates who want the opportunity to challenge and defeat him. Each candidate has different skills and a particular constituency. But to defeat a sitting Senate Majority Leader will take someone with the “total package” — an experienced leader, who has run the political and public gauntlet, who can raise money on a national level and who can clearly communicate their principles. For Nevada, that person is Sue Lowden.
In the health care legislation fight, we’ve just seen what a liberal majority in Congress, backed by a radicalized White House, is capable of. There is no better way to send a Chicago-style message to Barack Obama and his team, than to take out one his ringleaders next November — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man who quaintly promises to “vaporize” his Republican challenger.
Conservatives have just emerged from a bruising fight, but there are more fights to come: over a federal budget that the CBO says will increase publicly held debt to $20.3 trillion, or 90 percent of GDP in 2020; over immigration, over tax increase proposals, over federal and Supreme Court nominations. And the point man for all of this for Obama in the Senate will be Harry Reid.
This is a man who says our economy is experiencing “robust growth” and thinks it’s good news when “only” 36,000 Americans lose their jobs. This is a man who has not met a tax or spending cut he liked. This is a man who shows his concern for women by claiming that their unemployed husbands may become spouse-abusers. This is a man who at one time claimed to be pro-life, but who has rubber-stamped every liberal judicial nominee to pass his desk, and who cared so much about reassuring liberals that Sonia Sotomayor, their “5th vote”, would keep Roe v. Wade the law of the land, that he said, “I understand that during her career she has written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven’t read a single one of them. And if I’m fortunate…I won’t have to read one of them.”
For years, Republicans have been looking for someone strong enough to stand up to Reid and his bullying political ways and to send him home permanently. This year, we have a candidate to do just that in Lowden.
While there are other Republican candidates in this race, I am convinced Sue is the only conservative Republican with the toughness and experience to go toe-to-toe with former boxer Harry Reid. Harry seems to be acknowledging that, because Sue is the only Republican who Reid is regularly attacking. Beyond promising to “vaporize” her, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported, he has set his organized labor thugs against her back in Nevada. Recently, when Sue held a fundraising event in Washington, Harry actually had his staff in front of the restaurant where the event was being held taking pictures of anyone who entered the event. Think maybe he’s a worried just a bit about Sue?
Polling indicates Sue can win this race. If the election were held today she’d knock out Reid by 13 points; 52% of Nevadans would vote him out of the Senate. And within Sue’s Republican primary race she holds an 18-point margin, 47 to 29 percent. In the first quarter of the year, she’s raised almost a million dollars, far more than any other candidate. Her fundraising prowess nationally will be important, because Reid has promised to raise $25 million to keep his job.
Sue is the conservative in the race who can win, and she has the experience and record that shows she won’t fold on us when she comes to Washington. As a Nevada state senator, she fought off special interests when she chaired the senate taxation committee, and blocked higher taxes. She promised her constituents their taxes would not be increased, and she kept her promise. As Republican State Party chair, Sue knows what it takes to run a winning campaign in a state where Republicans have won statewide before, and will again.
Perhaps most important, on issues that go directly to our conservative values of personal freedom, free markets, the rule of law and respect for life, she’s rock solid. She signed tax and government reform pledges with Americans for Tax Reform, Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, and Citizens Against Government Waste. Sue has received an A+ from the NRA and is a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, has a strong record on cutting taxes and opposing tax increases, supports the appointment of judges who understand their role in the courts. On the issue of life, the past week has made it clear to us what it means to be a “pro-life” Democrat. Sue has made it clear she knows where she stands and how she will legislate. She will be pro-life. Today, that means a bit more than it did a week ago
Sue has the private sector experience of balancing a budget, paying payrolls and bills, to understand what it takes to grow a business and create new jobs. Harry Reid? Like so many of Obama’s cronies, he’s never held a private sector job. Isn’t it time we helped him check that box?
Warrior | 3.26.10 @ 11:13AM
Dopey Harry will almost certainly cast his vote in November for the wrong person and try to change it. You should be able to run prairie dog in Nevada against Harry and defeat him.
Nick| 3.26.10 @ 11:32AM
Mrs. Thompson,
This a very classy pitch for Mrs. Lowden's candidacy. I commend you.
No gratuitous attacks on Mr. Tarkanian, or the other candidates.
If only Charlie Crist and other Republicans could follow your example.
Raoul Bloodworth| 3.26.10 @ 11:33AM
I've met and chatted with Ms Lowden. I was left with a lingering doubt that she is not a RINO. Danny Tarkanian seems to be a formidable candidate as well but has little legislative experience - his main claim to fame comes from being a college basketball star and the name recognition he inherits from his Dad. Nevadans are well informed on the issues and most are determined to retire Harry.
My gut is to go with Lowden - she's battled the Unions before, who are Harry's main weapon. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive to the RINO thing. Tarkanian's main appeal is his support for opening Yucca Mountain, which, unfortunately, may be his undoing.
Justin Barasky, Reid Campaign| 3.26.10 @ 12:48PM
Sue Lowden's record on health care is a disgrace
http://www.harryreid.com/ee/in.....are_record
J.A. Williams| 3.26.10 @ 1:10PM
Justin Barasky...you are here telling clear thinking, CONSERVATIVE folks that Ms. Lowden's record on healthcare is a "disgrace"? Are you kidding me you Socialist troll? WHO'S record is a disgrace?? The Socialist Democrat Party led by your fearless little boss "Dingy" Harry. Go find a hole to climb in with the rest of your kind.
Nick| 3.26.10 @ 1:11PM
Go tell Dusty Reid it's time to vote "NO" on health care again!
What a moron!
Hope you have a job lined up, after November, Justin.
ZerObama| 3.26.10 @ 5:17PM
This guys got to be a plant--Reid's campaign couldn't be this stupid! On second thought...
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Hmmm. Why Did Jeri Thompson Endorse Sue Lowden Today? : The Other McCain links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
james wilson| 3.26.10 @ 1:44PM
Tarkanian is an unprincipled fool, and Lowden is a the type of conservative who will be undergo the usual metamorphosis in Washington. She has not one important idea or commitment to turning government in the opposite direction.
Josh Yeth, Loves Nevada| 3.26.10 @ 2:24PM
There's no question that Sue Lowden is THE candidate in this race. "Justin" from the Reid campaign should begin dusting off his resume while he's got time....Harry Reid has got to go.
Bob Hastings | 3.26.10 @ 2:43PM
Jeri -
I'll tell you why Sue "The Ego" Lowden is not the right person. First in the last 15 years she has switched her views on taxes, Yucca, abortion and Harry Reid. In addition her business practices are in question as well as her bailout stance. And just a couple weeks ago she got caught lying about a vote to the RJG. She made herself out to be a hero. The problem. There was never such a vote. But most disturbing in the contributions made to Democrats by her and her husband Paul. According to www.newsmeat.com she has ALL of the following donations:
Harry Reid (D) - 13 times
Democratic National Committee - 1 time
James Bilibray (D) - 10 times
George Miller (D) - 1 time
Walter Mondale (D) - 1 time
Democratic Congressional Campaign Comm. - 1 time
Howard Cannon (D) - 1 time
Jimmy Carter (D) - 1 time
Can you say RINO?
www.tark2010.org
ZerObama| 3.26.10 @ 5:15PM
RE: Reid--can you say Marxist?
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Jeri Thompson Endorses Sue Lowden | Sue Lowden for U.S. Senate from Nevada links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Marc Jeric| 3.26.10 @ 3:52PM
Last time Reid ran he won by 560 votes, thanks to the Culinary Union votes by illegal aliens, members of that union. As for her political contributions to Democrats - that was to protect her business interests, i.e., extortion money.
Howard Hirsch| 3.26.10 @ 7:35PM
Marc, he won by that margin in 1998. In 2004 he beat Rich Ziser by a much more comfortable margin, as they say, beyond the margin of fraud.
Otherwise, there's no doubt in my mind that Sue is the right candidate at the right time.
Howard Hirsch
past chairman, Lyon County Republican Committee
Dayton, Nevada
Nadine| 3.26.10 @ 4:02PM
I'll tell you why Sue Lowden isn't the right choice for the people of Nevada. She IS a RHINO. When it was convenient for her to have views to the left - that's what she did. Now it's convenient for her to have views to the right - so that's where she stands today.
She was pro-choice now she's pro-life. Her reason for the change? Ultrasounds. Unfortunately, for her anyway, ultrasounds were around when she was still in favor of murdering innocent babies.
Ms. Lowden also says she is “pro-jobs”. However, she and her husband just laid off 100+ employees from their business. Not unusual in this economy, right? However, when you take into account that both Lowden and her husband took their full salaries and her husband took a $200,000 BONUS things look different. . .
Maybe if the Lowden's had taken a cut in pay (like many Nevadans have) and if Paul had turned down his bonus (how many Nevadans got a bonus last year) - these employees would have food on their tables, a roof over their heads - oh and MEDICAL COVERAGE for their families.
Ms. Lowden has a habit of getting angry when she is caught in a lie - oh excuse me, misrepresenting the truth. She immediately starts yelling "mudslinging" and "personal attack" but dances around the original issue, never actually answering You can't attack the facts Ms. Lowden.
Bob| 3.26.10 @ 4:44PM
The only people that keep lieing and "misrepresenting the truth" are Danny Tarkanian and Harry Reid. Little Tark was caught lying about falsely saying Sue supports "socialism" this week and Reid ... well can really trust anything that man says?
Tark is just as bad as Harry Reid in doing nothing but telling half truths and lies as his entire campaign strategy.
Long time conservative leader, Chuck Muth is correcting Little Tark's lies here: http://tarktales.com/
On Donations, you bring up some as old as Jimmy Carter -- over two decades ago -- but ignore the contributions Little Tark gave to Democrats in the 1990s ...
Half truths and lies is all Reid and Little Tark have to run on.
Bob Hastings | 3.26.10 @ 5:11PM
Bob - Stop listening to Chuck Muth. He is a dishonest liar. I have been trying to debate him on TarkTales and other sites for weeks. Everytime I post references to articles, Lowden's own quotes and even quoted an OpEd piece he wrote he pulls it down. The man is a coward. As I have asked him a dozen times if his facts are so solid and mine are such crap he should post them and debunk them. But obviously he can't.
Also - he did not call Lowden a Socialist. That is her spin. He stated that the idea and/or vote for the bailout was a Socialist act.
Marc - Am I to understand that she put her business (i.e. MONEY) above doing what is right? Now there is a principaled reason to vote for her.
Nick| 3.26.10 @ 5:13PM
Pay no attention to 3/5 Bob's comments, folks.
For those who don't know, he is known as 3/5 Bob, because until last June, he thought that blacks had 3/5 of a vote, under the original U.S. Constitution.
He also doesn't know the scientific fact of when human biological life begins because he is unsure of when "ensoulment" happens.
He also claimed he translated the Bible from the original Aramaic when he was a teenager.
He is a pseudo-intellectual and an anti-Christian bigot.
Don't waste your time arguing with him.
Nick| 3.26.10 @ 5:14PM
Plus, if 3/5 Bob supports Mrs. Lowden, that is a big strike against her.
Bob Hastings | 3.26.10 @ 5:19PM
Hey Nick -
Help me out. You were referring to "Bob" and not "Bob Hastings". Don't throw me in with the crackpot!!!
Nick| 3.26.10 @ 6:00PM
Mr. Hastings,
You are correct.
Hence, the moniker "3/5 Bob."
Missy| 3.26.10 @ 6:51PM
LM*O!!
Bob Hastings | 3.26.10 @ 5:17PM
Regarding donatios:
Tark has two. $300 to Partick Clary in 1994 and $950 to Shelley Berkley in 1998. The Berkley donations is due to the following:
Shelley Berkley and Lois Tarkanian are long time friends. Lois currently is a city councilwoman in Las Vegas and is a Democrat. That has been repeatedly acknowledged by Danny. Shelley Berkley served on the UNLV Board of Regents from 1990 to 1998. At the end of the 1991/1992 season the issues surrounding Jerry Tarkanian and the NCAA were boiling over. UNLV was attempting to remove Jerry Tarkanian as Head Coach of the basketball team. Shelley Berkley and one other member of the Board of Regents were the only ones showing public support for Jerry Tarkanian. Ultimately Jerry Tarkanian was released from UNLV. Several years later Shelley Berkley asked for a donation to her campaign, Danny, as a way to thank her for her support of his father, gave a one-time donation to her campaign.
A note those who would like to point the finger at Jerry Tarkanian’s coaching controversies. Following Tarkanian’s forced resignation in 1992, Jerry sued the NCAA for harassment over his 2 decades of coaching. In 1998 the NCAA settled out of court for $2.5 million.
2 Donations for the Tarkanians vs. 29 for the Lowden's.
Repeat after me Lowden = RINO.
MTB| 3.26.10 @ 4:50PM
I leave it to the good people of Nevada to elect whoever they feel would best represent them . . . as long as it is NOT Harry Reid. I think Harry just turned 70 in Dec, so it is time for him to retire. Know what I think would be funny? I think it would be funny after the Republicans take over the House and Senate, knowing that they can't override an Obama veto, that they mandate that all elected officials involved in passing this health care legislation must be covered by the same legislation they passed. You can just hear the screaming and howling from these self-righteous, elitist, holier-than-thou thugs. It's good enough for "regular Americans," but not for them.
Al Adab| 3.26.10 @ 5:04PM
As Conservatives our problem is that the RINOs are the Republican Party. Only when Conservatives preponderate as in 1980 and 1994 does the GOP enjoy success. In other instances the GOP waffles and attempts to preserve the status quo for its own comfort.
Conservatives must once again fight two enemies, both the Left and the GOP in order that principle once again may triumph. Refer if you will to Craig Shirley's recent book "Rendezvous with Destiny" to understand the scope of the battle.
Missy| 3.26.10 @ 6:52PM
You're right, of course--but we can do it! We have to.
RON LAYMAN| 3.26.10 @ 8:50PM
Danny is really a Dem. Just like Lois.He may trick some people but not this Marine I vote for Sue Lowden .We dont need another Reed in Nevada. Make your vote count " VOTE SUE LOWDEN A TRUE AMERICAN"
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Jeri Thompson Comes Out In Support Of Sue Lowden | Reid-B-Gone links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Sue is Pro Abortion| 3.27.10 @ 7:02AM
Sue filed a survey with Nevada Roll Call during her state senate campaign admitting to be pro-abortion. Sus is a RINO.
Bob Hastings | 3.27.10 @ 3:19PM
Lowden 2010 Spin: In 2009, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate named Sue Lowden told a conservative publication, Human Events, that Roe v. Wade was a “bad decision.” (Las Vegas Sun/Dec. 16, 2009)
Lowden insisted her evolution is personal and not political, providing me with a lengthy statement and declining to speak on the record beyond it. “I am pro-life and I will defend life as a U.S. senator,” the statement began. (Las Vegas Sun/Dec. 16, 2009)
Reality:
LAS VEGAS SUN/May 18, 1996
Joining Ernaut in opposing an abortion ban: Las Vegas Assemblywoman Deanna Braunlin, state Sens. Kathy Augustine and Sue Lowden of Las Vegas,
Lowden and Hettrick said the national party ought to follow Nevada's lead and take abortion out of the platform.
LAS VEGAS SUN/Dec. 16, 2009
In 1993, a GOP state senator named Sue Lowden expressed to a reporter support for Roe v. Wade on the 20th anniversary of the decision.
If circumstantial evidence is to be believed, Lowden is easily convicted of not one, but perhaps two acts of political convenience, tacking left when it was advantageous and then shifting right when the race called for it.
But her comment about not standing on the Senate floor to salute Roe v. Wade is disingenuous because other senators in favor of abortion rights were caught off-guard by then-Minority Leader Dina Titus’ call for everyone to stand.
RECORD COURIER/Jan. 15, 2010
(Lowden): “I voted for choice in 1990.”
1992 Candidate Questionnaire /Nevada Roll Call/ Christian Coalition
When asked the question if she would “Prohibit abortion except when the mother’s life is endangered” her response was “OPPOSED”.
'53 Korean Vet| 3.28.10 @ 12:58AM
Seen that Sue Lowden did stay married for 26 yrs-is a statement in Defense of Marriage-! Also, the fact that she took time for USO Tours with Bob Hope--with the risks of War-time flying, gets her an appreciation among older War Veterans--who doubtlessly will not discredit her country's Love-!