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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid votes at an early voting polling place after an early voting rally at UNLV Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Reid faces Republican challenger Sharron Angle in the general election.
Published Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 | 4:23 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 | 11:30 p.m.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ripped into his Republican challenger Sharron Angle on Tuesday for failing to denounce an ad that encourages Hispanics not to vote.
"Can you think of anything less patriotic and more un-American?" Reid asked a group of students gathered in a field at UNLV, where he campaigned and voted. "It's the American thing to do — to vote. How can she possibly not speak out against what they've done?"
On Monday, a group called “Latinos for Reform” — an independent political organization that is not subject to disclosure rules — joined the electoral fray, with two commercials urging Hispanics to sit out the election.
The group's leader, Robert Deposada, a conservative pundit on Spanish-language Univision who helped President George W. Bush brainstorm ways to privatize Social Security, said Hispanics should boycott the polls because Obama has not yet delivered on his campaign promise to tackle immigration reform.
Hispanic leaders gathered immediately to urge politicians to denounce the ads. Today, gubernatorial candidates Rory Reid and Brian Sandoval did just that.
Angle remains the only politician in a major Nevada race to remain silent on the subject. A request for comment to her campaign was not returned.
Reid also blasted his opponent for failing to speak to the media.
"Have you noticed that every time my opponent screws up — which is often — she goes into her bunker?" Reid asked.
He paused, then added: "If you made some of her comments, you'd go underground also."
Well Harry, you probably got on your knees and begged the hispanics to vote for you. Why would Angle care what the hispanics do?
They'll probably vote for her any way.
We Love you Harry Reid, no matter what the hatemongers say....You will victorious on nov.2nd.
Come on Harry. Is that all you got? YOUR FIRED!!
The biggest problem with republicans is that they feel everyone thinks like them..not all of us hold bigoted ,racist views..we support Harry Reid,he is the best for Nevada and most important has the clout to help Nevadans.
Ofcourse Angle doesnt want Latinos to vote, especially the asian looking ones.
I guess all brown/yellow/off white-skinned people look the same to Mangle.
She must live in a scary, paranoid world.
Is that all you can say..you're fired..does not mean a darn thing..only cheap,lazy,dumb words just typical of the teanut party..Democrats are going to have the biggest turnout ever in midterm history..we are ready for you..hispanics,blacks,women and even independts are coming home to Democrats..We are not ignorant and dumb as the teanut republicans. Democrats will put you bigoted, racist republicans to shame come Nov.2nd..YOU HAVE PISSED US OFF AND WE'RE READY FOR YOU.
Man up, Sharron Angle, and tell Hispanics that their vote is just as important as yours.
Stop hiding under a rock!
Sandoval..Are you going to vote?
Everyone Should be aware of the fact that the fellow who did tthis ad is a conservative Stalwart who has to be connected to Sharron angle. Shame on them and Harry is very right to call her out on this.
Brian Sandoval has denounced the ad yet he is tied to the Republicans, Has anyone asked Joe Heck whether he denounces this tactic os will he keep as low a profile that he adopted with regard to his underwhelming support for Sharron Angle.
"Democrats will put you bigoted, racist republicans to shame come Nov.2nd..YOU HAVE PISSED US OFF AND WE'RE READY FOR YOU."
Isn't that sweet???
I'd like to put the debate for the soul of my home state of Nevada and the U.S. gov't in terms a typical college-going twenty something Obama-Reid supporter might understand:
Just listen to the song "Thieves" by the great Alain Jourgensen's Ministry. It's a perfect description of not only the current U.S. Congress and in particular Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi but also the liberal media conglomerate including the AP, NY Times, Yahoo, et.al.
How screwed up is Nevada! Your choices are Harry Reid or Sharron Angle. It's like the condemned man be given the choice between hanging or decapitation.
There are time you have to fight fire with fire, and yes i'm not being sweet.we're tired of playing nice..you can't play sweet with heartless teanutbag morons.
Harry has an ad out telling people they should work out their anger and frustration at the gym instead of the ballot box. What a hypocrite!
thank you sharon . Now Hispanics who were too busy or not interested are upset enough to go to the polls and vote . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xrlf3ta...
You can fool some people some time but not all the time..our eyes are wide open to your fake ads,lies and fear..the republicans always try to divide and conquere but not this time..we're onto you!
"Can you think of anything less patriotic and more un-American?" Reid asked....YES harry I can....All the crap you have shoved down our throats when the majority did not want it. You are more un-American than almost any politician I can think of except for pelosi and obama.....
It's true, Christine O'Donnell is trolling the lasvegassun.com/blogs looking for debate team members. That's why so many Republican Tea Baggers are on their best and most informed (LOL) behavior.
Such crap is that you can't stand A black man in the white house..all your ranting is just a coverup for how you really feel it has nothing to do with Harry Reid...LOVE YOU HARRY..GIVE HIM HELL.
if i were the republican party i would disown angle.
what a laugh!
Liberal Democrat talking points:
"..you can't play sweet with heartless teanutbag morons."
"...racist teabaggers aren't speaking out against racist actions..."
"They WANT the racist vote."
"...there are enough racists in America..."
"...bigoted, racist republicans..."
"...racists within the Republican Tea Party and the rest of the teabaggers..."
"...bigoted, racist republicans..."
"...bigoted ,racist views..."
Is this the best you guys can do???
Hint for RichardPastorek:
You write your posts and I will write mine...
The fact that she's become a serious candidate is an embarrassment to Nevada and the entire United States Of America....
After all, about 70 percent of Crazy Angle's funding has come from OUT OF STATE.
Sharron Angle may have alienated 25% of Nevada's population while Harry Reid has alienated 75% of Nevada's population.
Note: Not all of the population of Nevada are registered voters...
The fact that Harry Reid is a senator is an embarrassment to Nevada and the entire United States Of America....
My dear..it is what it is..the truth does hurt..it's in your DNA... you've got to be carefully taught and you've been taught quite a bit and most, not all republicans share it,especially the tea party which for some do have some legitimate concerns for which I agree, but it's been highjacked by the christian right,militia and other extremist groups which is putting our democracy and country at serious risk.
I did not know you cared...
How do these people sleep at night? Such a hypocrite. He calls someone "unpatriotic" while he musters Senators in for a back room deal on the Health Care Bill against the will of the people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u42wzteBF...
Less than 2 weeks away and the Republican Tea Bag candidates are coming up blank for knowledge, information, experience, ideas, plans. Yet their supporters keep chanting the bagger line:
"Four legs good! Two legs Bad!"
LOVE YOU HARRY REID..its sharon angle that needs to go back to school..she is making Nevada the laughing stock of the country with her LACK of intellegence and gravitas...she is the true embarrassment.
I hate to be the one to tell you this my friend, but you misspelled "intelligence."
Sorry, Rory made me do it...
I sure the Majority Leader of the US Senate would have called YOU to find out how he was supposed to do his job if only he had your number.
"Four legs good! Two legs Bad!"
Yes I care larry for accepting others and loving my fellowmen,trying to find the good but when I see distane and hate towards others simply because of who they are or the color of their as with the many remarks from shraron angle makes me mad..YES, I am one of the many angry white males out here offended by the what the republican has become...SHAME on them.
The republican party is playing with fire with the teanut party...there is an old saying ..when you sleep with dogs you'll get fleas..regardless of 'frontline or advantage repellents.
Of course she did not denounce the ad... she does not like anyone white and southern Baptist like her. She is a poor excuse for a woman and a so called Christian. Angle is in a world of her own with only sychopants who would vote for such a lunatic.
Sharron Angle's lack of a backbone on this issue is embarrassing 100% of Nevadans.
Sharron's even making her apologist followers look horrible!
Come out from under the rock, Sharron, and show some guts!
How many of you republicans teanut party on here want your social security and medicare cut,educaton depatment cut,the VA cut,the police dept,firemen,fema,the trash collector ,the roads you drive,parks etc.this is what sharon angle is calling for...I can go on and on..raise your hands if you want anything else cut...that is your government people...Its non thinkers like you to shout out dumb things like ''keep government out of my medicare'..think people, think ,think,think..for Gods sake.
Get real, Mike Johns. This is a Republican astroturf group trying to suppress the Latino vote, because most Latinos are Democrats. Especially given that for the last couple of years Republicans have been openly insisting that people with dark skin and Spanish names are the enemy.
Really is amazing that our military has been dying in Iraq and Afghanistan defending the people's right to vote and Sharron Angle is over here telling people not to vote! Sad, really sad.
The desperation of Sharron Angle and the crazy
teagagger/republicans has no bounds.
These lunatics will do or say ANYTHING to try to
win this election.
IT'S OVER FOR CRAZY ANGLE.
Harry Reid is on his way to a SOLID WIN.
little9lulu- Sharron Angle never told anyone not to vote, where did you get that twisted up lie from? This has absolutely NOTHING to do with Sharron Angle. Senator Harry Reid is a sick man, he will attempt to use anything to put a negative spin on things against Sharron Angle. Senator Reid has to nerve to say,
"Can you think of anything less patriotic and more un-American?" .........
Senator Reid yes I can think of a number of things that you have done as a Senator.
UnAmerican Senator Reid
1. No vote on English being the National Language for the U.S Government
2. Yes Vote on giving illegal aliens Social Security
3. Yes Vote on not limiting the benefits of illegal immigrants, medical, dental, vision,pub education, subsidized housing.
4. Voted not to build the Border Fence.
5. applauded the President of Mexico for enforcing immigration law.
6. Went against a U.S Governor who was trying to protect the Citizens of Arizona
Senator Reids record on illegal immigration STINKS, and that is unAmerican, he cares more for foreigners than he does for citizens of Nevada, and the U.S.A
7. The war is lost- Sharron Angle will win.
5. The President of Mexico denounces the governor of Arizona for enforcing immigration law in her state, Senator Reid stood and applauded that President, when he should have defended the Governor of AZ.
HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHA.
Latinos alone, will put Harry over the top.
You greedy republican losers lost again.
"The most accurate polling agency in the last 10 years has Angle up 50-47 and gaining ground"
You're talking about Rasmussen, who FAILS to ask voters if they are going to vote for "None of the Above." Historically, in Nevada, NOTA gets quite a few points... something your "most accurate polling agency" isn't even factoring in!
Contrast that with the polls that showed republicans want a different candidate than Angle and things don't look quite as rosy as you're making them out to be.
With Sharron's mouth getting in the way, it's only a matter of time until she angers the wrong constituency. Hispanics look like Asians? Your candidate is a national embarrassment.
NEVADA IS A BLUE STATE.
We Democrats out number you crazy, greedy
republicans.
YOU CLOWNS HAVE NO CHANCE.
Once again you think all people think like you..my moderate republican and independent friends voted for Harry Reid, they were not very happy doing so but did so saying that the devil you know is better than they one you don't know and they just do not trust or like sharon angle,they find her veiws way too extreme.
To Richard Pastorek who wrote:
"Come on, LarryVegas, you must have at least one cogent, insult-free thought to share with the rest of us that is relevant to the topic of Ms. Goldberg's article, don't you?"
Yes, and thank you for asking...
The entire nation and the world is watching America vote. The extremism has got to stop..We are putting our country at risk with the republican teaparty nonsense..THE INDEPENDENCE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY not because they want to but because tea party republicans really do not have any other answers or solutions to fix the problem and the solutions they have are way off main street and saying no,is not a solution. They hate government so much that they want to go to work in washington to be in government and shuting down the government is not the solution either.
Dear Dick,
You don't mind if I call you Dick, do you Richard? I hate to use formal names once we become friends.
You asked me if the shoe fits. My response is: It depends which foot you put it on.
Also, I agree with the "don't vote, don't tell" policy.
By the way. Are you related to Jake's wayward teacher on "Two and a half men?"
Got to go. Somebody is cooking in the oven...
WE LOVE HARRY REID. Our anger is not at Harry Reid it's at you and the party of no.He has a very loyal following and we'll be there to support him with our eyes wide open...don't be fooled and mistaken by what you hear from your noisy disgusting, intolerant teanut party nutballs,who may be singing to the choir but just remember.. the congregation is a lot bigger.
I did not know that Harry Reid was a sheep herder...
"My definition of extremism is at least 15% unemployment"
Thanks to the Bush administration's fiscal policies which FAILED and launched us into a recession in Q4 of 2007.
"$13 Trillion of debt"
The greatest majority of which is the result of REPUBLICANS in Congress and the White House
"the Federal govt. not securing the borders while Americans are getting murdered"
Seriously, when the republicans had control of the House, Senate and White House, they did NOTHING about the border. The person who actually got money and more troops to secure the border? REID.
"$1 Trillion pissed away on a failed stimulus"
Are we still in a recession? The economists say no.
Another whiny republican who wants to go back to the glory days of Bush's war on terror and lax oversight of our economy.
Your candidate can't even decide on a political party, let alone a philosophy.
"Nevada registration records show that Angle was a member of three, and possibly four, political parties since the 1970s and she might have left the GOP for more than a decade."
"In Angle's home county of Washoe, registrar Daniel Burk said she registered in February 1996 as a member of the conservative Independent American Party. About a year later, in March 1997, she changed her party affiliation to Republican."
She was a republican, then a democrat, then a republican, then joined the fringe Independent American Party, then back to republican...
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"Hey Kevin -- When the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 and therefore took over all of the legislation the unemployment rate in this nation was 4.6%."
Yes, you're right. Bush's economic policies created an UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC BUBBLE, based on fake home values, mortgage-backed securities and derivatives that were full of toxic assets, and a MASSIVE increase in federal debt.
And then the bubble burst, a few months after Democrats took office. And Bush sat back... just as helpless as he sat, reading a children's book on 9/11... as we reaped the consequences of republican fiscal policy.
Do tell me of the legislation passed in a few months of Democratic rule that caused the recession. I DARE YOU.
Thanks to eight years of unpaid tax breaks for the rich, two unpaid wars that is milking the country dry and a near depression thanks to the careless actions of so the called fiscal republicans..WHAT A JOKE..it will take us many years to get out this hole that the crazies got us into. As for he stimulus..anyone you see working on the roads,highways, the cops,firemen or anywhere else helping to build and protect nevada right now is part of the stimulus money.The wealthy and big cooperation have they tax breaks now..so you why the #ell are they not hiring..no because the republicans sent all the jobs overseas and are still doing so as i speak..you tell me whose hurting the american workers more.
Latinos don't care about all the hoopla. They know they will still be the majority in 2050 so "why worry?"
Het Mike, we Democrats are keeping the House and
the Senate.
President Obama will be re-elected in 2012.
You greedy republicans are the minority in this
country.
Your voting power is over, done and ka-put.
Greedy republican ideology is dead.
You fools created too many poor people.
Latest poll: Angle 50% Reid 47%
Bye, bye Harry.
Don't forget the DEMOCRATIC Health Care bill CUTS $500 BILLION out of Medicare!
Another example of PHONY Democratic compassion!
Harry Reid is on his way to a solid win.
republican polls are lies.
Teamster- Stop dreaming, you'll wake up November 2
Well folks I am tied with this entire cra_%. Just like the phone push 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 there just not enough numbers on a key board to made everybody happy. If you want to be and American and live here Vote pay those tax's we just need one number....... that's all stop playing the ethnic group card We are ONE "American's". If you did not come here the legal way please go back home apply and come back with open arms.
...give it up, give it up, Angle, give it up... :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkew5_k...
All the tea party unemployment collectors, why don't you stick your teabags where the sun never shines.
Then go home, just creep and crawl away to where you came from, all you suckers.
Bye Bye Harry, have a fun retirement in Searchlight. That's if they will take you back.
VOTE Reid, I can see what he has done for Nevada in 20 years..imagine what he can do in another twenty years.
28% unemployment. and a bankrupt country 15 trillion . Immigration reform ... wont be discussed till he's up for re election again.
Anyone notice that every time Sharron Angle screws up she blames Harry Reid?
Now, a shady "group" is encouraging Latinos NOT to vote. This is age-old politics, like sending African-Americans flyers with the wrong election date.
Harry Reid and the Democrats have supported the rights of Latinos and We the People for decades, while the Republican party represents rich, white men. Let's hope the people of Nevada know which is which.
VOTE Sharron Angle, I can see what Harry Reid has done for Nevada in 20 years..imagine what he can do in another twenty years.
Where did my friend, Richard Pastorek go???
The following is a statement from Communications Director Jarrod Agen on Harry Reid's false claims at his rally yesterday that Sharron Angle is behind an ad to suppress votes.
"Harry Reid is a national embarrassment and each day he gets more desperate and delusional. Trailing in the polls with just two weeks left, he has taken to boldfaced lies about Sharron Angle. Reid talks tough now, but he was gutless and cowardly in his face-to-face debate with Sharron. The only candidate or party behind voter suppression is Harry Reid and the Democrats, who launched an ad telling frustrated Nevadans to go pound sand instead of vote in this election. Reid is a hated man and he knows it, but he still intends on throwing any self-respect he might have had out the window."
TAKE BACK AMERICA!!!
What a low blow from the Angle Campaign -just telling Latinos not to vote!! That's is shameful coming from a elected official that knows clearly- that the vote is protected by the Contitution of the Land!!! And to the shady group who agreed to this shameful act- I tell them 'Vendidos'
Por favor, ir elegir, companeras y companeros. Detener el racismo de la Senora Sharron Angle y los Republicanos. Es el momento adecuado y nadie puede decir algo diferente:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFdgJI3nB...
Muchas gracias.
Mis saludos cordiales.
Chuck
(LarryVegas no esto mas que otro idioto que trabaja para los racistas.)
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I know factual postings are against the imploded ethics of you political hacks so here, squirm a little...lol
According to the IRS they collected over 13.7 trillion in taxes, from 2002 to 2007, more than any other 5 year period in U.S. history and all under tax cuts. http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/...
The democrats would have you believe the economy was bad with 5.5% unemployment in 2005. Unemployment was still 6.2% at the start of October 2008.
Here is the link if want to see what the great majority of the deficit spending was on from 2003 to 2008 and guess what congress had the highest budgets of the Bush 8 years? It was the years fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008 when Democrats controlled Congress and the Senate, and submitted those budgets to the president. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/
From My post on the RJ web site
Banking industry is basically behind the sub-prime slime CDO/ GSE mess with the help of both Democrats and Republicans and specifically Bill Clinton and his administration in 1998 when his administration pushed to remove the Glass Stegall Act. By the way Harry Reid voted to eliminate the act as well.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/busine...
About 12% of Nevada's electorate is Hispanic and Harry Reid has made it clear that his strategy is to turn out the Hispanic vote for him and he is willing to do anything to get it.
Harry has done his best to demonize Angle for "voting to protect sex-offenders rights". Why hasn't he called out Titus for voting the same way on the very same bill in the Nevada Senate?
Look it up, folks.
Sunday, January 20, 2013, the end of an error. With any luck the Reids will be gone sooner.