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Published Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 | 1:26 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 | 1:29 p.m.
On the campaign trail, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has been trumpeting her decision to appeal a 2003 Nevada Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for the Legislature to pass a tax increase without the constitutionally-mandated two-thirds vote.
In 2003, Angle was one of 15 Assembly members who temporarily blocked a tax hike until one of their members changed his vote.
Angle was so angry at the Nevada Supreme Court, which invalidated the voter-passed constitutional amendment requiring the two-thirds vote, that she recruited a constitutional lawyer to appeal the case in federal court.
Angle says voters punished the Nevada Supreme Court justices who made the initial ruling by voting them out.
So, that raises the question: How much should voters hold Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval responsible for his role as attorney general in bringing the lawsuit on behalf of Gov. Kenny Guinn in the first place?
I posed the question to Angle this morning. She laughed nervously for a good 30 seconds before saying she holds the governor more responsible for initiating it.
“(Sandoval) has said he felt that was his job as attorney general to do what the governor had asked him to do because he was the governor’s attorney,” Angle said.
Should Sandoval have just said no?
“I think there was an opportunity probably for him to say no, but I don’t know,” she said. “That’s difficult for me to answer.”
She quickly noted, however, that Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto recently told Gov. Jim Gibbons no when he asked her to join other states in suing to halt the federal health care legislation.
“I certainly would have liked to see her (join that suit),” Angle said.
Rhino (Republican Hispanic in Name Only) vs. Cheshire Cat Tea-person.
Where's the "Chicken Lady?" Where's Republican Unity? Looks like the Republican News Radio Station will have to intervene.
The queen of hearts Sharron Angle stateing "off with their heads!" 7 years of "no" help from her. Carson City is too remote and the news does not cover the state issues like it should. We do not have the voting records as easily as the federal politicians. All these extremers in our state saying no and partying with our tax dollars at will. Gibbons, Sandavol, Angle, and Pete G(2% on food guy). We are not being represented at the state level. This is one of the main reasons we are in this fiscal mess. The banks did it but the state gov't did nothing to stop it nor help us out of it. Gibbons fighting heath care, unemployment, and stimulus funds and Angle clapping like a mistress. She wants the state attorney general to spend tax dollars on fighting help for us like 51% rules and not 63.3%, and to band federal health care. What did she do to deserve 7 years of our tax dollars? We need to babysit the state gov't. And we are not doing it. This is one of the main reasons why we are the highest unemployment and will be the last to climb out. Senator Reid can only do so much. Don't blame him for the states moronic ways.
She quickly noted, however, that Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto recently told Gov. Jim Gibbons no when he asked her to join other states in suing to halt the federal health care legislation.
"I certainly would have liked to see her (join that suit)," Angle said.
Huffington Post...8/31/2010
"More than half a dozen states suing to overturn President Barack Obama's health care law are also claiming its subsidies for covering retired state government employees, according to a list released Tuesday by the administration.
The seven are Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska and Nevada".
Ms. Angle, based upon what I read in the Huffington Post article you were wrong about Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, saying "no" to Mr. Gibbons.
I guess the appropriate 'no' only apply when it is Legislation you disapprove.
ATTN: ALL CONGRESSMEN & REPRESENTATIVES!
If you voted for Obamacare-------Your GONE
If you voted for Finance Reform-Your GONE
If your for amnesty-------------------Your GONE
If your for card check (unions)-- Your GONE
If your for cap & trade---------------Your GONE
Please COPY & POST as often as you can...they will get the hint!
1. ATTN: ALL CONGRESSMEN & REPRESENTATIVES!
If you voted for Obamacare-------Your IN
If you voted for Finance Reform-Your IN
If your for amnesty-------------------Your IN
If your for card check (unions)-- Your IN
If your for cap & trade---------------Your IN
Please COPY & POST as often as you can...they will get the hint!
Health Care Reform Hypocrisy: States Sue Government But Want Money...AP
Sharron, I can feel it in my bones
in a day you'll be gone
Ooh Sharron,you're losing me.
Temptations...(I Know) I'm Losing You
And in English:
1. ATTN: ALL CONGRESSMEN & REPRESENTATIVES!
If you voted for Obama care-------You're IN
If you voted for Finance Reform-You're IN
If your for amnesty-------------------You're IN
If your for card check (unions)--You're IN
If your for cap & trade---------------You're IN
Please COPY & POST as often as you can...they will get the hint!
"Laughed for 30 seconds". Do you know how ridiculous this statement is? The falsehood bias of the Sun on here is outrageous! The truth that liberals cannot seem to understand is Angle has principals and will stand for them even when at odds with her own party. We should commending her for being moral and principled unlike Reid is a pander to each audience telling those what he thinks they want to hear. Sometime the truth hurts and Angle has the guts to stand up for what's right...
Sharron Angle has absolutely no business being our representative in the US Senate. NONE WHATSOEVER! Her extreme viewpoints and previous inability to affect any legislation during her 6 years in the Nevada Legislature (41-Angle) would make her and us the laughing stock of the nation.
Once again, the sane people of this state will prevail in a democratic election and those like trustnoone, gbigs, etc. will continue to rail against us... calling us sheep and ignorant and anything else to justify their minority positions.
Nevada wants to grow-up folks... we're done being the Mississippi of the west.
When Angle gets elected President, gbigs will be her Secretary of Delusion, and trustnoone & tortious2u2 will be her co-Secretaries of Lack of Education. middletoright's in line to be appointed Secretary of Denial.
Harry Reid is the next senator from Nevada.
Might as well settle down to that fact.
And his son the next governor.
Sorry, fish, I'm not a Repug.
Do you try to understand the words?
Nation, when a candidate is as extreme as the Obtuse One, it is easy to paint her into a corner because the world is not black and white, it also is largly gray.
Angle is so dense and lacking in cognitive skills that, unless she has a consultant whispering in her ear, anything that comes out of her mouth will, in some degree, be a gaffe.
gbigs thinks Angle is a goddess??? I think he has lost all credibility with that statement!
gbigs, You know why Angle won't get elected? Because she has backers like you that helped get her this far. You guys should have picked someone that could beat Harry if you want him out. Instead your group ran a nut case for office. Next time try running someone that does not scare their own party leaders.
So two Republicans that disagree on how an issue should have been handled is reason to deem one or both of them as unworthy? The Republican Party is a group of individuals gathered around a central theme of individual responsibility, smaller government and more freedom. There are many different views and sometimes loud arguments within the party on how best to achieve those goals.
I think this shows the Party as inclusive. The Party of Reid has centered around destruction of anyone that disagrees with Nancy Pelosi.
From Anjeanette Damon:
"I posed the question to Angle this morning. She laughed nervously for a good 30 seconds before saying she holds the governor more responsible for initiating it."
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I just timed myself laughng nervously for thirty seconds. Hopefully Damon is exargerating, because if Angle does that during her debate with Reid she will only add to her crazy pesonna. Also, why is Angle dragging the Republican nominee for governor in her mud fight?
I wonder if we can pay our taxes in Chickens HMMM! How about a note from God saying I have been good so no taxes this year. Please Sharron eat the Mushrooms!!! Your news conferences and interviews are like a skit from Saturday Night Live.
Please tell us Angle's creepy 30-second nervous laugh is on tape.
If not it really doesn't matter since at least half the voters already know she's bats%#& crazy.
Laugh of the Day - presented by newman @4:25
"The republican party is a group of individuals gathered around a central theme of individual responsibility..."
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Haha! Good one, newman!
Maybe one of his personal responsibility fellow republicans should send lil' John Ensign a memo on that character trait.
LOL
The leftists out there attacking Ensign for his sexual misadventures (which were wrong, by the way) are the same loons who said it didn't matter when "Sick Willie" was getting *$?!ed off in the oval office (which was wrong, by the way.) Be consistent please.
I am not going to attack the liberals as they seem to attack those that disagree with them, but really the Sun/Ralston/Damon/Liberal bashing is becoming quite insane. You have no position or real argument for Reid, so your only hope is to try to hold onto a desperation that people will believe that Angle is not fit for office. Your support for Reid/Liberalisim is that insane that you are willing to openly support someone who has been a leader to the ruin of the last four years? I find it hard to believe, but then again I am not a liberal. I support Angle only after reading collections from both sides on her, after supporting Tark, and even though I don't support her conservative moral views. She is principaled, she is honest, she doesn't pander, and she will lead the US as a Senator for Nevada. Reid lacks principals and morals, panders, lies, is corrupt, and leads the US for Reid. It's about time we as a state stand against those who aren't for us and put someone in who is. I think it's about time to donate some more money to Angle, the rhetoric on here is very motivating.
lvfacts101,
I don't know anyone, Democrat or Republican, that condones the affair President Clinton or Senator Ensign had. They were both wrong. The problem I have with Senator Ensign was when he took the holier-than-thou road and demanded Pres. Clinton resign for having an affair, but now that he's in those same cross-hairs, he's decided it's a personal matter and none of the public's business. So in that sense lvfacts101, you're right, but isn't it Sen. Ensign that needs to be consistent?
Sen Ensign is of the same fold as any other politican who is unethical. He needs to step down or be voted out. This is not a party thing; I don't blame Rangle and others on the D's, it's a power thing that happens to some humans. Ensign has proven to be unethical and an adulter and needs to be replaced by someone who is ethical and represents the state of Nevada; as long as it's not a Reid.
I'm sick and tired of the morons that keep saying the national debt is too high, but don't bother to think about how it got there.
How about this... We force the government to stop collecting all taxes, fees, tariffs and levies! Federal and state. Everything we earn, we keep. Our country would be a war-zone in less then 2 months and dead in 6 months. Just thinking about that would shut-up any sane person.
Our problem isn't that taxes or spending is too high, the problem is what we spend it on. And saying that government doesn't know how to handle money is also stupid because WE elected the people that spend the money!
We need to get back to basics:
Food.
Shelter.
Clothing.
Medicine when we're sick.
Care when we're old.
And a job to earn a living to pay for it.
We don't need tobacco, alcohol and oil subsidies. We don't need to pay farm conglomerates to not grow crops. We don't need to pay giant corporations hundreds of billions of dollars to run a war for us. And we don't need to build bridges to nowhere.
gbigs You are beyond help. It is time for someone to institutionalize you.
You are such a fool you want to forget eight years of Bush and Cheney and how they alone are responsible for the problems facing America today. Lets bail some banks out as well as Wall Street only to have them shove it to the tax payers. McCain could not get on the plane fast enough to save America with his vote for bailouts after he had huge hand in deregulating them.
You are a simple minded nit wit who has to post numerous times thinking someone will believe you.
Thank God Yucca Mountain is dead, now we just need you to go to Yucca Mountain and stay there. Maybe someone can drop some spent nuclear waste on your living quarters.
Now go away you have no idea what you are writing about. You are delusional or insane.
Good to see the other nit wit neiman1 is out of the sanatorium. He is another right wing nut job that has had his head in the sand for eight years of the Bush Adminsitration.
Angle is dead meat and gbigs needs his meds.
gbigs Did Harry Reid tell the banks not finance construction in Nevada? No,he actually went to the banks and helped get the financing to finish City Center. If you can speak coherently long enough call Jim Murren the CEO of MGM Mirage and ask him what Harry Reid did for that project. You are wrong once again. Construction has ended in Nevada because Bush ruined the economy with his over spending and his lying war. Nit wit.
By the way,you simpleton, Angle said she would not have gotten involved in the saving of City Center.
Angle voted the worst member of the Nevada legislature when she served her short but ineffective term.
You are really out of it.