The race to replace Harry Reid in the Senate is one of the most closely watched and highly contested elections in the nation this year. The most recent poll has Republican Rep. Joe Heck leading Reid’s hand-picked Democratic opponent, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, by 3 points — 38 percent to 35 percent with the substantial remainder undecided. More … [Read more...]
Heck considered front-runner for GOP nomination
The race to become the Republican nominee to fill the Nevada U.S. Senate seat that has been held by Harry Reid for 30 years features an incumbent congressman, the woman Reid defeated in the 2010 election and what can best be described as seven others. Early voting is about to start and the primary election day is June 14. Three-term congressman for southern Clark County, … [Read more...]
Reid hypocritical in his arguments about Supreme Court nomination process
Some people are ambidextrous. Harry Reid is ambioratory. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth. This past week one of Sen. Reid’s staffers penned an op-ed column that ran under his name in The Washington Post on the topic of replacing the late, great, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who had died only days earlier. The Democratic Senate minority … [Read more...]
High court apparently finds Republicans who support Reid are disreputable
It’s like in the movie “Miracle on 34th Street,” if the court says Edmund Gwenn is Santa Claus, then, by golly, he must be Santa Claus. Now that the Nevada Supreme Court has said a libel case can go forward, it must have concluded that a Republican who supported Harry Reid’s re-election committed a disreputable act. How else to interpret it? During the 2014 Republican … [Read more...]
The Donald and The Church Lady run among us
Donald Trump and Sharron Angle? Christmastime for us columniators! Just after I learned that The Donald will darken the Sparks Nugget this Thursday, I heard a scurrilous political rumor (is there any other kind?) that moonhowlers are pushing perennial pol Sharron Angle to enter the GOP primary to replace the departing Sen. Harry Reid, D-Searchlight. Gomorrah South … [Read more...]
Reid keeps Nevadans rolling in the aisles with his antics
Are you sure there isn’t some way to talk Harry into running for re-election? Nevada will be a barren, mirthless desert without Harry Reid’s unpredictable and always outrageous pronouncements, provocations, proposals and pontifications. He should come with a warning label: Past performance is no predictor of future results. Harry provides a perpetual game of rhetorical … [Read more...]