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Published Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 | 4:47 p.m.
Updated Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 | 9:02 p.m.
Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle speaks during a Nevada Tea Party Patriots event near Durango Drive and the 215 Beltway on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle bashed politicians during a Saturday rally for "favor-buying" but didn't mention she offered to use her political "juice" to help a third-party candidate she was trying to convince to drop out of the race.
Angle spoke to a friendly crowd of several hundred supporters at The Blue Martini in Town Square and answered questions from conservative radio host Heidi Harris, an Angle supporter who called herself the "official defender of Sharron Angle."
Although Angle answered more than two dozen questions about education, immigration, health care and Social Security, she never mentioned a secretly taped conversation she had with Tea Party of Nevada candidate Jon Scott Ashjian, in which she said that if elected, she would use her influence for his benefit.
"Whatever juice I have, you have as well," Angle told Ashjian. "You want to see (U.S. Sen. Jim) DeMint? I have juice with DeMint. I go to D.C., say 'I want to see Jim DeMint,' he's there for me."
Instead, Angle said while talking about the health-care reform bill that Congress passed this year: "We don't need some kind of favor-buying pork ... Harry Reid isn't just another vote. He pushed it, he promoted it, he made the deals."
Angle's conversation with Ashjian received international attention. Harris didn't ask about it.
She did ask Angle about her feelings about Mormons. Angle's pastor recently called the religion "a cult."
Angle didn't denounce Pastor John Reed's statements but she did say she honors the Mormon faith.
"The LDS church is stellar," Angle said, noting that Mormons defend marriage and life, values she holds dear. "I respect their efforts."
CORRECTION: A quote in this story was changed from "favor-buying whore," as was initially published, to "favor-buying pork" after a spokesman for the Sharron Angle campaign contacted the reporter Sunday night and offered an audio recording of the event to set the record straight. | (October 10, 2010)
So the "w" word is acceptable when used by Angle but a serious campaign gaffe when uttered by a Jerry Brown staffer? Both individuals did use the word in exactly the same, non-gender-specific context.
Where is the sun's outrage when harry made all of the backroom deals to pass health care? So what makes the old thief any better than Angle?
Favor-buying whore? That really shows class, lady - about as much as the older man who shouted "Harry Reid sucks" to my two friends wearing Harry Reid shirts at another venue in Town Square where we were having lunch - what a bunch of rude, lowlife losers! Your behavior is a disgrace!
I think I can answer that question for you isthis4real.
There is no difference between Reid and Angle except that Reid has been living in Washington DC for the past 6 years, whereas Angle has been dwelling with the sap in the bark of a tree.
So now she's denouncing the favor-buying Johns while letting the favor-selling Prostitutes off the hook. Well, we know which camp she's in.
Every time Mr. Angle speaks in public there seems to be a gathering of very rude people. I guess that is what this country is coming to these days.
People can not discuss issues in a respectful manner and most won't really discuss issues at all, they are to busy slamming others.
Time to wake up people. Vote for someone that has a plan with facts and figures to back it up or we are going to keep heading south.
Sorry, but I have not seen a plan from Ms. Angle at this time. Wish she had one that she could really pull off.
this getting almost not funny anymore. She offers to do favors then has a rally against them less than a week later. really?
@artswanson, good post!
I have to agree with you. Harry hasn't brought any pork home to his constituents, however his pockets have seemed to have been bulging more than a few times he's come home.
He just doesn't know how to share after all these years.
Every student of psychology knows what the term projection means. In layman's terms, it is when someone uses the experience and knowledge of their own misdeeds to accuse another. They transfer their subconscious guilt to an innocent person. This is what Sharron Angle does every time she speaks. Her criticism goes far beyond her opponent, she attacks crime victims, sick children, the disabled, the elderly and anyone who does not subscribe to extreme fundamentalist Christianity.
Anyone with any knowledge of psychiatry can see that this woman has more than one serious personality disorder. She also has an inability to understand what her own words mean, and the cruelty with which she uses them.
To serve in the U.S. Senate is to serve the people of Nevada. She does not have the will or the ability to do that because there is a driving force within her to control the lives of others to satisfy her extreme views.
If you think there is any voter remorse regarding the last presidential election, wait until you see what happens if Sharron Angle is elected. You will, in all likelihood, see alcohol and gambling banned in Nevada and the only light that you will see on the Las Vegas Strip will be from the nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain.
Christian radicals do not think of themselves as extremists even though they will be the first to vilify ultra conservative sects of any other religion. They are blinded by their own hubris.
I was there. Angle did a very nice job explaining her views. Nothing like the distorted job by Reid and the media.
She will win and Nevada and the American people will win too.
Hey Art, sounds like you OD'd on Sharron Angle's CRAZY JUICE (made with real DeMint.) Check it out, really. It's just as hilarious as Angle calling favor-buying politicians whores a week after she, you know, tried to sell favors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8kRMGKO...
'Despite dirty attempts to cast Angle as a right-wing nut'? What attempts? Replaying actual things she's said? There are no attempts here, this is REAL people... half the voters in this state are ready to cast their vote for an absolute "crazy"! I can't believe it!!! I could have understood Lowden, Tarkaninan or any of the others, but HER?
Did not "Lemons to Lemonade Angle" state that she was a Southern Baptist? Did she learn those gutter words from the Church of Scientology, whom she held hands with for awhile. Wait, she also was a member of the "Word of Light Fellowship'/Assemblies of God. Hold on now, maybe she got it from the "Christian Reconstructionist's" when she was a member of the American Independent Party.
The C.R.s wish to impose Biblical Laws on the government and our society.
Examples of Biblical Law:
A father can sell his daughter into slavery.
One can have slaves if they come from another country.
Dishonor the Sabbath--Stoned to death.
Grow two different crops in the same field--stoned to death.
Wear clothes made of two different fabrics--stoned to death.
Have an affair with in-laws--stoned to death.
"Lemons to Lemonade Angle' stated that entitlement programs are a violation of the first commandment.
Will angle stone us to death if we have an annuity plan, a 401k plan, a defined benefit pension plan, have a stock and bond portfolio, a savings account, a mutual fund, a money market CD, Social Security, Medicare, money under the mattress, or even a piggy bank?
Her supporters should buy and keep a strait jacket around just in case she goes farther and farther into the deep water of Unreality.
Just think! A yes vote for Angle may turn out that you are voting for a mentally ill person.
Senator Reid's days in office are limited.
Hey Art...
Don't think so, pal.
The MAJORITY of Nevadans will NOT vote for this witch.
Not only is she a hateful, fear-mongering, bible-thumpin' NutJob, she doesn't have CLUE ONE as to what it means to work "for the people"; she works for one person, and one person only...
Sharrron Angle. If your personal, moral, and political views don't coincide with hers, SCREW YOU, pal...she's NOT INNERESTED!!!
Well, the folks next door in California are telling us that Brown's responsible for the actions of his aides... so is Angle responsible for her deputy campaign manager?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/nevada-...
Meanwhile, Sharron's on the campaign trail calling people whores? She's unfit to be a United States Senator.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/101...
Gotta love that Reid is panicking as Angle opens some distance in 3 polls.
Here's an excerpt from the link above:
"Reid's people are really antsy," said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Reid's far-reaching political machine tends to come down hard on those who talk out of school. "That's why their external message has been to try really, really hard to discredit these polls. Angle is building a lot of momentum, and they don't know how to stop it. This is exactly what happened during the primary."
The extreme statements coming from the GOP are just psycho warfare tactics.
They use them to divide the country and create chaos. The GOP Rich Elite try to keep it this way to keep power. First you divide and create chaos then you conquer.
Enjoyed your comments, SusanKH.
I'm just a retired Navy veteran, and I don't know too much psychiatry stuff (other than to know how to spell that word), but what you said may have a lot of credence.
Because there sure seems to be a lot of disconnect between whatever sloshes around in Sharron Angle's brain pan cavity and the results that spew out of her pie hole.
And it's not only in Nevada. Crazy is cool nowadays in politics.
Like Bill Maher said: "The left has went to the center and the right has went to the mental institution."
You just might have something there with your comments, SusanKH.
The one word that ties all the Tea Party candidates together is--HYPOCRISY. They have learned well from the Republicans. You can almost bet that when they keep talking about something they say is bad or they hate, they are guilty of doing the very thing they're ranting against.
If Jim Demint is her mentor and her idol then it just shows how crazy this woman is. Having her in the Senate representing Nevada is like having no representation at all. She is Looney Tunes and will be ignored until they tell her to vote for something she has no idea about. Trust me,Mitch McConnell will do exactly that with her.
Sharron Angle said about health care reform: "We don't need some kind of favor-buying whore ... Harry Reid isn't just another vote. He pushed it, he promoted it, he made the deals."
As a retired Navy veteran, I can relate to Sharron Angle's gutter speak, but I fail to see her reasoning...nor do I agree.
Health care reform was sorely needed in the United States. To fight burgeoning costs in every facet of medical care...with the most heartless ones being the health care insurers.
Finally, after many, many administrations have tried to accomplish this, and met with failure, it has come to pass that affordable and comprehensive health care will be available for all Americans. In that it will become a right...and not just a privilege.
But Sharron Angle could care less about the welfare of people.
She just wants Nevadans to vote for her. Even if you are wheel chair bound, walk with a cane, disabled, don't matter. Hobble down to the voting booths and vote for Sharron Angle...a person who could care less about you. She got hers...and to hell with you. She wants to win so she can amass power. Power she clearly don't deserve. Power she will clearly abuse. Power she will selfishly guard and gain fortune from. And give nothing in return for it.
Sharron Angle is totally out of touch with reality.
The heartless crap she says basically implores people to vote for her, and then kindly go away, go somewhere and afterwards, you can get sick, deathly sick, and die, for all she cares. But she wants your vote first. She could care less. All indications show she will say ANYTHING, do ANYTHING, to get in power. And if she has to lie and make up stuff...hey...to her...it's just politics...if you vote for her, it's your fault for listening to her crapola...not her fault...she's blameless and clueless.
Besides not having a soul, and besides being crazy...she just does not care about anything except getting elected.
I would like to point out that she resorts to CONTINUALLY attacking Senator Reid and his record. But she never refers to her record. In other words, it's easy to attack Senator Reid's record. Why? BECAUSE HE HAS A RECORD! And it shows he is human. He makes mistakes. But his accomplishments, not only for Nevada but nationally, are commendable. And they far outnumber the miscues.
Sharron Angle just cannot compete. She has no record other than to just sit there and look around and argue with people, vote no, obstruct and go into this rabid snarling and barking chihuahua attack dog mode all the time.
This is not a leader. This is not someone who can govern. This is not someone who can represent Nevada.
She's crap.
My vote stays with Senator Reid.
Ms. Angle can't even remember whether she voted for or against bills. She claims to have voted against mandates but the record shows she voted for them. She claims to have introduced legislation to repeal mandates but nobody can find it. She co-sponsored legislation then voted against it.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/oct...
Her rhetoric doesn't match the reality of her record. But, I think I'd believe her if she said she isn't a witch.
Of course she can compete, with any one who hates parents of sick children, Honorable Veterans, Mormons, Jews, Blacks, Latinos and God know what else this Crazy Bit### hates. Let me ask you Crazy Sharron, does "can't keep his pants zipped up" Ensign, know one of your daughter-in laws well? Just a question.
bg says: "Her rhetoric doesn't match the reality of her record. But, I think I'd believe her if she said she isn't a witch."
Gave me a good laugh.
Thank God she isn't a witch.
One Republican witch (O'Donnell) is enough.....
And I'm glad too. We don't want her winning because of serious black magic put a spell on everyone and turn them into spay footed desert toads (endemic to Nevada) and stuff....
Harry and Rory "I'm ashamed of my last name" Reid were seen at UHAUL this past week.
Obviously they're planning to close their offices due to the double beating they will have on election day!!
I am not going to try to convince the liberals that they are wrong on this of all sites, but what I will say is the hypocracy is very obvious on both sides. I am an Angle supporter and I will admit it. Anything that comes out of Angles or Reids mouths is spun. I do feel that Reid has a lot more horses in the stable of spin than Angle. All I hope is when this is over we can all get along.
Oh, one more thing.
Dina Taxes is finished too!!!!
I just love getting the righties spun up.
I seem to have a knack for accomplishing this on these message posts.
And in the current political climate anything goes.
In this Tea Baghead world of nowadays...up is down, down is up, left is right, right is left, Godzilla is good, Mother Theresa sucks...I guess it all works out...Sharron Angle is the best thing to happen to Nevada since the invention of condoms or something. Oh! And whatever Glenn Beck says...YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT, DAMNIT! Because the righties want you to pay attention to storefront soapbox messiahs. Even if it is way out there, incomprehensible conspiracy theories.
Sharron Fraud Angle most definitely is a clueless idiot. Go ahead keep mouthing off, the whole world is laughing at Nevada Repukeblicans!!!
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Here is yet one more reason to vote for Sharon Angle.
The establishment Republicans within the state of Nevada don't endorse her. That is a good sign for me that Sharon Angle will do the right things for all residents of Nevada. Haven't the residents of Nevada figured out that their economy and tax revenues depend heavily on a healthy national economy?
Tourism based casino revenues fuel Nevada's state tax revenues and without a healthy economy, far less revenue is realized. Harry Reid and his socialist Democrat party's policies of destroying American industries and jobs has worked very well in preventing a healthy economy from returning over the last six years with a Democrat controlled House. They have, however, succeeded in getting more and more Americans on food stamps to control votes. And wasn't the Democrat engineered housing bubble collapse that led Nevada into the chaos they are in now?
If Nevada residents like high unemployment rates, cuts to social programs and public services, keep voting for the socialist programs that have destroyed Nevada's livelihood by re-electing Harry Reid.
Personally I think it would be a criminal act to vote for Reid.
I don't care what your political views are. This sort of language and tone has no place in public comment. Period. Where is the dignity and decorum? Are we now going to simply make crass boasts to the most lowbrow among our contituents in order to garner votes and public attention? This sort of talk is neither clever or appropriate and I defy anyone to defend it. Is this really the sort of character that we want to represent us before the entire country and the world?
America was not long ago a shining beacon to the world of what civil society should be. Lord knows we've had our fair share of problems but we were looked to as a strong nation with good values. Now it seems we'd like to be represented by petulant childish loudmouths who foam at the mouth at every opportunity while collecting large salaries provided by us the taxpayer and hop in bed with every special interest there is.
Here's a news flash: wanting everyone to tote a gun everywhere at anytime is a special interest; wanting to put discriminatory language into the constitution of the United States to prevent certain couples from getting married while guaranteeing the right of others to do so is a special interest; doing everything you can to see to it that insurance companies can let patients die to see their profits go up is a special interest...I could on and on. So for all the hot air, Mrs. Angle will be, if elected and to use her own words, just another government "whore". She has shown herself to be ignornant and vulgar and has no qualms about offending anyone in order to gain a place in Washington.
Someone needs to remind her that she is a candidate for public office not Howard Stern. His grossness gets a lot of attention and makes a lot of people a lot of money but that doesn't make it right. Angle's appointment to the U.S. Senate would be the final nail in the coffin for our beleaugered state. If she can't even choose her words wisely when she's been given ample opportunity to perpare for it then what sort of decisions is she going to be making in the Senate.
Oh and let's not forget, Reid bashers, we still have another Senator sitting around in Washington who apparently doesn't seem to be involved in anything other than making excuses for being an adulterer and a liar. I suppose he gets a pass for being imcompetent because he's a white, Christian, Republican?
When will Chicken Reid go on stage and explain away his questionable land deals?
Desperate Sharron Angle finally went off the
deep end.
What else is this lunatic going to come up with?
We need the strong, steady leadership of
Harry Reid.
These crazy teabaggers are nothing more than
circus clowns.
SAVE OUR STATE AND COUNTRY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
@Triple777, he bought a piece of land and sold a piece of land.
@sportyyetpractical, for the last 8 months, all we have heard from Harry has been lies thrown at Sharon, about Sharon, fabricated by Harry's campaign staff. Every commercial by Harry is full of lies.
Harry keeps telling he's got $25 million in his campaign fund and with that kind of money he should be putting out his T.V. ads with alot more class.
However, Harry has by himself, decided to play whomp in the mud politics. All his lies are coming back to lay on him because his constituents have no idea any more when Harry is speaking the truth.
24/7 whomp in the mud lies, you think that the Democratic Majority Leader would have an outstanding and unmatchable track record to display in the public eye. He's sure not displaying it.
Harrys' campaign ads seem to display the worst of Harry, a politician who can't say anything good about himself, should not have anything to say about anybody.
This is where the foundation of Harrys' campaign has been formed, on a pack of lies and fabricated information.
How can anyone trust anything Harry says anymore?
Does anyone know if the Nevada Brothel Association supports Sharron Angle?
Just curious.
:-)
We want a debate Sharon Angle lets see your stuff!
or will your absolute do nothing record for the past twenty years speech for itself.
You're not a tea partier
You're not a Republican
What are you????
Are you a witch maybe??.
There big this year.
OMG - this woman is totally out of her mind. How she can hold her head up and keep a straight face while lying about others, accusing them of doing exactly what she herself just did not 48 hours earlier?????? Her behavior is unconscionable, outrageous, and ominous. For a woman who calls herself a Christian, she must be planning on sinning to the limit and then begging Christ's forgiveness before having to suffer the consequences of her actions. That's the only way she could escape eternal damnation.
Reid, the biggest theif ever to hit NV,point man for Obamas policies.Amnesty,cut meicare for seniors,kiss Mexicos butt, the war is lost,no Harry is lost.He is a babbling fool.No more deals behind our backs No more Reid.
Harry Reid is a honest honorable and trustworthy
Everything Sharron Angle is not..
Come on stop the lies or is that a something Republican thing.
If Reid, the biggest theif he would be in jail-
A lie By lehigh
She didn't say "whore", she said "pork". The Las Vegas Sun strikes again!
Thanks to Sharron Angle and other Tea Party supported candidates AMERICA is waking up to the politicians like Harry Greed. His blood sucking from the tax payers is coming to an end with this last Halloween Oct 31. Two days later on Nov 2 this Dracula is history. The nerve of him asking for another 6 year term. Wasnt four terms enough for you to retire on. BYE BYE
Only Obama will miss Harry Greed. Nevada will celebrate his retirement.
Part 11 of Karl Rove.
RNC: Despite its almost constant series of travails, the regular RNC, which still lists Gillespie as the owner of its headquarters, continues to take in boatloads of cash from Big Oil. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that so far this election cycle the RNC has received $555,439 from the oil and gas industry -- enough to make Big Oil one of the embattled committee's top ten sources of cash. The RNC unveiled a new ad yesterday attacking President Obama's response to BP oil disaster, perhaps in the hopes of drumming up even more cash from Big Oil.
Unfortunately for the regular RNC, there's at least one major GOP donor who is only giving his money to the shadow RNCs. Texas leveraged buyout billionaire Harold Simmons, best known for funding the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004 and false attack ads linking President Obama to Bill Ayers in 2008, has recently channeled $1 million to American Crossroads and $125,000 to the RGA.
Group Run By Anti-Stimulus Crusaders Rove And Gillespie Airs Ad Attacking Reid For Lack Of Stimulus Money In NV
Part 1 of Fareed ZAKARIA'S Interview with Steve Rattner on CNN AT 1:00pm.
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is a 'natural' chief executive officer and isn't a socialist, the president's former auto task force head Steven Rattner said in an interview with CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
"I thought he was a natural and I have been around a lot of CEOs over the years," Rattner said during an interview taped Oct. 7 and scheduled for broadcast tomorrow. "I came away with a lot of respect for his CEO qualities."
Rattner, 58, the former head of the U.S. government's Automotive Task Force and co-founder of New York-based private- equity firm Quadrangle Group LLC, was asked about polls showing that some voters, both Republican and Democrat, think Obama is a socialist.
"He's not a socialist, that's for sure," Rattner said, adding, "I would probably concede that he is maybe less comfortable with business" than former Democratic President Bill Clinton, Rattner said. Clinton had "some appreciation or fondness for business that was maybe a little bit unusual, but it was there," he said.
Rattner also said that Obama has to deal with the political reality that has followed the 2008 financial crisis. "One of the things I say often to my Wall Street friends who are very upset with the president to a person, is you've got to deal with the climate that's out there, and this is a country that is angry," Rattner said.
Faced with midterm elections Nov. 2, the Democratic president and Democratic-controlled Congress are being buffeted by voter complaints about tax dollars having gone to firms paying million-dollar bonuses, concern over budget deficits and voter objections that it was unfair for the government to rescue banks that caused the crisis, which has pushed the jobless rate to almost 10 percent. Wall Street Bubble
Part 2 of Karl Rove.
"The president does believe that Wall Street was a significant part of the problem, more of a problem than Wall Street believes it was," Rattner said. "I think Wall Street is a little bit in its own little bubble and doesn't really get what's going on out in the country."
Rattner recalled a meeting about a year and a half ago at which Obama told a group of bankers "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks."
Rattner directed Obama's auto task force from February 2009 until July last year, after General Motors Co. emerged from a bankruptcy backed by $50 billion in government aid. He has since written a memoir of the process called "Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry." Tough Decision
The administrations of Obama and that of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, committed a total of $85 billion to rescue the U.S. automakers, aid suppliers and prop up the financing arms of GM and Chrysler. About $67 billion in loans and equity investments are still outstanding, according to administration figures. GM is 61 percent owned by the U.S. Treasury.
The decision to save Chrysler was the most difficult because it was the number three company, had no global business and closing it down would help General Motors and Ford sell more cars, Rattner said on CNN.
"I think in any normal economic time, many of us would have voted to let it go," Rattner said. "But we were not in a normal economic time," he said. "The economy was in freefall. The stock market was in freefall. We didn't know if the financial markets were going to recover or not."
The decision to save Chrysler was made primarily to save 300,000 jobs; unemployment at Chrysler would have added two tenths of a percentage point to the unemployment rate, he said.
"That was a social experiment that we didn't really want to take, if we thought Chrysler could be saved," Rattner said.
Never ever vote Republicant.
Cradle of liberty, after your comment I stopped reading the others, because I laughed so hard, I almost wet myself. GOOD JOB POSTER! I love your humor!
sportyyeypractical, you are right on spot. Thank You!
art's right partly. Largess doesn't echo far out here compared to what others have gleaned from huge military/industrial investments in hot spots around this land.
But hanging joblessness on Reid is flimsy for two reasons: #1 Gaming, tourism and good luck kept us greasy and happy so we had it, uh, made so to speak; #2 local education efforts hampered by transience had a reputation of producing a workforce associated with hospitality and tourism, gaming and culinary and seldom attracts investors as other high-tech states with twice the money in education systems more successful in other realms.
Sure, looking back, Reid has missed opportunities. Replacing him with a quick-lipped hipshot sidewinder doesn't make a lot of sense though, dammit.