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Published Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 | 3:43 p.m.
Updated Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 | 5:30 p.m.
Updated at 5:30 p.m.
The UNLV College Republicans sent a letter this afternoon to the UNLV president and Board of Regents asking them to respond to Titus' actions and "to admonish such behavior to protect the integrity of the university."
"This is like using your lecture notes during a closed book test," UNLV College Republican Senior Vice President Jay Yoon said. "For a professor who has spent a lifetime enforcing academic rules, Dina Titus has failed to play fair."
Posted at 3:43 p.m.
Campaign officials for Republican Congressional candidate Joe Heck are accusing Democratic Rep. Dina Titus of cheating during Thursday night's televised debate.
The campaigns had agreed to a specific format before the debate: Titus and Heck would ask each other questions. Each would be allowed one note card on which to write the questions. The note card would only be used while asking questions.
The rules for the U.S. Senate debate differed. PBS officials confirmed the rules for the Titus-Heck debate.
"My understanding is that they were to have no notes," said Tom Axtell, the station's general manager.
Heck brought a note card and read from it as agreed upon. Titus brought a three-ring binder and appeared to refer to it during her closing statement. She flipped through the pages at least twice during her remarks.
“Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials," Heck campaign manager Grant Hewitt said. "They deserve elected officials who follow the rules, are honest and stand up with integrity. Congresswoman Titus last night chose to cheat in the debate after talking about cheating."
Titus, a UNLV professor, said during the debate that she does not tolerate cheating in her classes. She was responding to a question Heck asked about misleading ads aired on her behalf.
Titus spokesman Andrew Stoddard dismissed the accusations.
"Joe Heck was complaining that we were not talking about the issues and here he is trying to distract from what we thought was a spirited discussion of the issues," Stoddard said.
Stoddard said Titus' notebook contained questions only. He said she referred to it during the closing statements because there were questions the candidates didn't get to that she wanted to address.
Stoddard said he didn't recall any conversation about candidates' using notes only while asking questions.
Cheating? Haha. She handed his rump to him. She was prepared and frank and very straight forward while he sounded like a Republican wind-up doll with nothing but catch-phrase talking points.
How is that cheating? These Republican candidates are so sad and pathetic. They're complete idiots and all they can do is be defensive. Angle looked like a boob last night too. Neither one of them has yet to say exactly what they'll do to fix the "problems".
I love it. But the boobs like Sgtblockhead above will run out and vote for them because they want to see more people like themselves in government.
Hey SgtRock where's them WMDs your boy Dubya sent us a trillion dollars in debt for? Or how about the yellow cake uranium that Iraq was trying to buy? Who was it again who outed a CIA agent to the press? You want to talk about lies and cheats! Haha. Yeah let's have another Republican administration so the next time they get a daily brief that says "Bin Laden Determined to Attack the U.S." they can all go out and pray and play golf.
syp......I do it very slowly for you.
Step 1: Both camps agree to rules and one rule was that they both could only bring one note card and that note card could only have questions.
Step 2: Heck followed the rules and only had one note card with questions.
Step 3: Titus, the cheater, had a 3 ring binder with all-kinds of stuff in it.
I do not expect your brain the comprehend any of the above.
Now, go back and finish your koolaid.
rules? rules?
we don't need no stinking rules!
I'd rather have someone resourceful out to win
working for me in DC than a cry baby looser.
@sportyyetparatical I love how complaints about the prior administration are some how saying he was wasting time. "Golf" the "Ranch" that sort of thing. Yet I see Obama doing talk shows like "The View" (among others) totally wasting time, and MTV Town Hall Meetings. I'm a young person, and I feel that our president should not even be near something with the word "MTV" in the title.
On the subject of golf. Obama has played more golf than Bush did while in office. Look it up. I'm just sayin.
NewBee: "I'd rather have someone resourceful out to win working for me in DC than a cry baby looser."
My previous comment that was removed purely for censorship reasons: "In fact, Democrats would be disappointed if she didn't cheat."