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Reid: LDS church is "changing (on gay rights), and that’s good"
In a roundtable with reporters from various news organizations, including The Washington Blade, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made some fairly stunning statements, even for him.
The Mad Men of the northern GOP: UPDATED
UPDATE ON 11/6/13: I received an email Tuesday from Jane Taber, the wife daughter of Washoe GOP boss Tom Taber, that said the following to try to distance the party from the radio show he hosted after much blowback, including the governor cancelling a party fundraising appearance:
Heller's unprofessional Senate office is embarrassment
I have held off writing this for some time, for reasons that will become obvious. But my patience is at an end. Let me say this without hesitation: Senator Dean Heller’s office is the most unprofessional I have worked with (or not!) in a quarter-century of covering politics. So why should you care? Why is this relevant?
"Harry's just like a dog with a bone. He's not going to let go of this."
That's the president of the United States talking about the Senate majority leader, who was claiming publicly in 2012, everywhere he could, that Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes for years.
Assembly Republicans tell Wheeler he was bad, very bad
The full statement about Assemblyman Jim Wheeler is attached here. I gather the caucus "wholeheartedly" repudiating remarks "in their totality" is pretty severe. So harsh Wheeler voted for it, too!
Lyon County Republicans pass resolution backing Wheeler, standing up for "The People"
You may think what I have posted below is a parody. It is not. You may think what I have posted below is some feverish dream. It is not. You may think this is another Stephen Colbert lampoon. It is not.
GOP 2016 in Las Vegas? Why not?
Imagine the scene at the newly finished MGM Resorts arena: Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn share the stage after delivering blistering indictments of President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. “And now,” Adelson intones, “let me introduce you to the next United States senator from the great state of Nevada, Brian Sandoval.”
Very strong open letter to Wheeler from conservative assemblyman
Despite bleating from his fringe supporters that the controversy is all about his ideology, Jim Wheeler now has a public critic whose conservative bonafides are not in question.
Old Vegas comes through again for Lowden
First, we had the hint that lieutenant governor's contender Sue Lowden was tapping into her old Vegas network. Now more evidence as her second event wll be at a place that is redolent of old Vegas: Piero's, owned by Freddie Glusman, who is on her host committee.
Stephen Colbert takes on Wheeler; hilarity ensues
"A Nevada politician gets in trouble, which is shocking because nothing is illegal in Nevada" "Oh come on, nothing embarrasses the state of Nevada."