Conservative GOP Assembly candidate Jim Wheeler on Monday called out his opponent, incumbent Assemblyman Kelly Kite (R-District 39), over his vote last year to raise $620 million worth of taxes by extending the “temporary” taxes that were supposed to “sunset” last June, as well as his refusal to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising not to do it again.
“I publicly ask the incumbent if he will once again vote for these job-killing taxes, or will he stand up with the majority of the constituents of the 39th Assembly District and fight these new taxes?” Wheeler asks of Kite in a press release. “My own position is crystal clear: The voters don’t want it, so I won’t support it.”
“Unlike my opponent,” Wheeler added, “I proudly signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. This means not only will I vote to carry out my fellow citizen’s wishes; I will lobby hard against these new taxes with my fellow legislators.” Wheeler concluded by calling on Kite to join him in signing the Pledge.
Good for Jim Wheeler. This is why primaries are a good thing.
“Police and organizers shut down proceedings at one of Missouri’s largest caucuses (on Saturday), as Ron Paul supporters feuded with local GOP leaders,” ABC reports. “’It’s like the Hatfields and the McCoys around here,’ St. Charles County’s former GOP chairman told ABC News, after police arrived on-scene with a helicopter and removed Paul backers .
“In St. Charles, an exurb of St. Louis and one of the state’s largest GOP counties, Paul supporters sought to elect their own chairman and adopt their own rules when proceedings opened.”
“More from the New York Times: ‘The unrest began as the caucus at Francis Howell North High School was called to order more than an hour late, then delayed again when a member of the crowd refused to put away a video camera, as required by the rules outlined by the local Republican Party…St. Charles was supposed to select the most delegates of any single caucus in the state, and turnout was much higher than expected.’”
“The Obama administration is offering to cede some control over nighttime missions into Afghan village homes, U.S. officials say, in a bid to ease tensions with Afghan President Hamid Karzai,” the Wall Street Journal reports today.
“The administration’s most significant concession on night raids would subject the operations to advance review by Afghan judges, U.S. military officials said. One option under discussion in the U.S.-Afghan talks would require warrants to be issued before operations get the green light.”
Are you kidding me? It’s time to say “Screw you, Karzai.” If our troops get deployed overseas, it should be our way or the highway. If Karzai doesn’t like how we operate a war theater, fine. We pull out. Not in 2014. Tomorrow. We’re a military operation, not the “Sensitivity Police.” Enough of this crap!
I’m one of those conservatives who just can’t get past Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s warm embrace of former liberal Republican Sen. Arlen Specter in 2004 over conservative then-Rep. Pat Toomey. Not only did the former Pennsylvania senator endorse Specter, but he actively and aggressively campaigned for him all over the state. And we all know what happened after that:
Snarlin’ Arlen proceeded to dump the GOP, join the Democrats…and was the deciding vote in the passage of ObamaCare.
I’m sorry, but in my book, that disqualifies Santorum from any shot at my vote for president, in addition to the fact that the man has almost as few accomplishments as Barack Obama had in 2008 for which to recommend him.
But it’s also because “Father” Santorum is perfectly happy using the government to advance his religious and moral beliefs, the latest example of which our friend Rich Galen wrote about this morning… Continue reading »
I almost forgot this item from Jon Ralston’s Flash e-newsletter last week.
In response to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s decision to break his tax promise on the “sunsets” for a SECOND time – and Sen. Michael Roberson’s flip-flop decision to support him – Ralston reports that GOP “caucus-endorsed candidates are being advised not to sign” the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that Sen. Roberson himself has signed.
But this quote from a “caucus insider” to Jon cracked me up: “If Muth hadn’t spent the better part of the last few months flaming tax-pledge signers (ex-Sen.Elizabeth) Halseth and (Sen. Barbara) Cegavske, Roberson might have given a s–t about Muth’s tax pledge… Not a single caucus-endorsed state senate candidate has signed or will sign the pledge…”
What a LAME excuse for being a squish.
In response to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s announcement this week that he was AGAIN going back on his word about opposing tax hikes by AGAIN extending the “temporary” tax hikes that are supposed to expire next year, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Jane Ann Morrison wrote the following this morning.
“The most humorous reaction was from Sen. Michael Roberson, the likely leader of Republican senators in 2011. He zapped from his memory his vehement objection to those same taxes and praised Sandoval for his leadership.”
Indeed, here’s what Sen. Roberson said this week in a prepared statement about extending the “sunsets”: Continue reading »
Arguably, the “job” of the Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for and protect its members. Which means when government attempts to penalize businesses with a penalty/tax for hiring workers – as well as DOUBLE the cost of the government’s permission slip every business is forced to obtain – it’s a no-brainer that the Chamber would be in virulent opposition, right?
Wrong. Continue reading »
You may have heard or read yesterday that former GOP secretary of state candidate Rob Lauer won a $50,000 judgment by default against a Republican woman he was accused of assaulting at Stoney’s after one of our First Friday Happy Hours during the 2010 campaign season. He claims he was just teaching her his self-defense moves.
Well, don’t go spending that fifty large yet, Kung-Fu Rob!
Jennifer von Tobel advised me this morning that she was never served papers in Lauer’s lawsuit…and her attorney will have the judgment quashed for improper service.
As regular readers here already know, Ric Truesdell – the Las Vegas city council candidate with a yahoo Obama Whisperer for both a campaign manager and son-in-law – has refused to debate man-to-man his main opponent, fiscal conservative and former state senator, Bob Beers.
Indeed, he refused to participate in a candidate debate this past Monday night that was moderated by KDWN 720 AM’s Alan Stock, and then blew off an invitation by Jon Ralston to debate Beers on Ralston’s Face to Face program.
Let’s face it, the guy’s a real chicken-ric. Continue reading »
Here’s the painful lesson Nevada citizens and small businesses learned again this week: You can’t trust the word of any politician…even that of a former federal judge.
The following facts are inarguable.
First, Brian Sandoval ran for governor on the verbal promise to absolutely, positively oppose any and all efforts to increase taxes, including extending the 2009 “temporary” tax hikes that we were promised would expire last June 30. However, the candidate refused to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge to that effect, claiming that his word was his bond.
Junk bond, as it turns out. Continue reading »
