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StumblePublished Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 | 9:03 p.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 | 9:05 p.m.
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Sen. John Ensign said on Alan Stock's radio show Monday that he only made "one call to one of the banks at the time....I thought CityCenter was an important project....I thought it was important to do what we could...All I wanted to do was make sure the banks were doing the right thing."
You may recall that U.S. Senate nominee Sharron Angle criticized Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for making calls and said she would not have made them.
He went on to say: "We may disagree on this particular point, but as Ronald Reagan said...and I'm sure Sharron disagrees with some of my viewpoints....but we agree at least 80 percent of the time....that's your friend not your enemy."
I wonder what else is in that 20 percent they disagree on. Social Security? Maybe. Government is not God? Doubtful. Having an affair and then using the parents as a conduit to pay off the mistress' family and then engaging in a cover-up and trying to get the husband a job, with allegations of quid pro quos? Probably.
Audio at right.
(By the way, does it occur to anyone else that some of these folks who call into these conservative radio shows and ask certain questions might be Democratic plants? They are relentless.)
Finally, Ensign doing something right! Shock! But, he's still didn't go aggressively to help. One call was not enough. And did not make Angle a "wingnut" that she is. By the way, what is he doing to help us out of 14% unemployment? Why doesn't the tea party call him out? The only words I have heared is "no" in Congress. And "I'm sorry" for the mess in his privite life.
Ensign's parents, who incidentally gave a very generous $96,000 gift to the Hamptons, are casino barons.
While the soon-to-be-indicted junior senator doesn't know much about anything but he does understand the importance of helping to provide jobs for his constituents -- or at least one of his constituents. And he did make one measly phone call whereas Angle said lifting a finger to save several thousand jobs was wrong and not part of a senator's job description.
johnny boy is starting to get votes early huh
How do you know harry only made one call? Were you with him everything minute and second of the day? Unless you were you do not know for sure. Do you John?
isthis4real just to clarify, the above article states Ensign said he only made one call. It goes on to mention that Angle criticized Reid for making calls (plural).
What is this the 500th anti-Angle Sun/Ralston story?
Compared to how many anti-Reid stories...like zero.....
Hmmmmmmm.....I wonder if the Sun is pro-Democratic paper.....I wonder............any thoughts.
I hate to say this, but Senator Ensign is to be commended for his view about jobs.
But he is still pond scum.
Not only because of his deplorable private life that bleeds off on his ethics and alleged criminal behavior, but because he voted no on the jobs bill, unemployment, financial reform, health reform, you name it, he voted no on things so much that people have to remind me there is another button to press and actually is spelled Why Eee Ess and that it means the opposite of Enn Oh. The guy is useless because he marches lockstep and brainlessly with the Republican Party of No, No, Hell No, No Can Do, Cannot, Obstruct This, Obstruct That. Senator Ensign claims he is representing the people of Nevada, but he's only in it for himself.
But that's okay. We're showing slow progress.
Thanks to the Republican Party, we got rid of Governor Gibbons and Sue Lowden.
Next is Sharron Angle.
After that, Senator Ensign is in our sights to get voted out. That is if he isn't slapped out of office in shame and/or perp walked in handcuffs to prison.
No rest in the Democratic world. We got work to do, people. Clean all these Republican bums, loonies and fakes out of office.
How lonely it must be...
to be the world's ONLY champion of these lost causes;
John Ensign
Gym Gibbons
Righthaven & the RJ....
Come on, Mr. Ralston. Even you know the teabaggers are so out of this world kooky that we progressives don't even need to be plants!
But anyway, what does it say when even Johnny Casino (Ensign) considers one too extreme? That's just major FAIL on Sharrontology's part.
John Ensign AND Sharron Angle representing Nevada? Does one need any other reason to back Harry Reid? Stuck with the "dopey duo" in the Senate, we'd be the laughing stock of the nation, and U.S. history students, for all of eternity.
Here. The "Dopey Duo" in action for future Nevada constituents. (Hint: we constituents are the sap stuck in the middle).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5f_gbzo4...
Now that the Ensign "Pal" Sen. Cornyn has bashed Newt for multiple wives, what about Ensign who cheated on his wife and had his parent pay off his mistress's husband and then he lobbied to get lobby jobs for him which is against the law. Was it OK for Cornyn to negociate with the cuckold husband to buy him off from going public? His reading of the 10 commandments must be "Thou shalt not commit adultery with three women [once or twice is OK]. Seems sort of long to be enscribed on the tablets, but I guess there were abbreviations in biblical Hebrew/Aramaic.
Look if Sharon is such a great choice as senator, Sandoval can appoint her to replace Ensign. Oops, an actual reason to vote for Rory.
Of course Angle is wrong on jobs, she's wrong on EVERYTHING! lol
yes,yes,yes when all else fails, blame the media. LBJ and tricky dick tried that when vietnam was going down in flames. it didnt work then and it wont work now w/ mangle and johnny prevert. they're almost yesterdays news.
What's wrong with living in a trailer house,
I would not be too good to live in one again when that's how I was able to live with in my means and be a productive member of society.
You say trailer house as if you imply that these people are the blight of America please explain your position Mr. gbigs.
Must be part of the agreement Senator Ensign has with Senator Reid , to cause harm to Senator Reid opponents?
Angle Irony;
Even the disgraced Ensign is opposed to the Queen Of Mean's ruthless rhetoric...
How LOW can you GO???
Sgt Rock just keeps making a fool of himself. When faced with the facts regardless where they come from he will cry foul unless it blames a Democrat for everything. Rock can not read a five paragraph article and get it right how can he think and get anything right. Rock is a nit wit who is either delusional,impaired,has recieved to many blows to the head,demented, or just stupid. It really gets old reading his foolish posts day after day.
Rock why would you read the Sun if you resent the reporting? Go away.
Paul Rupp You must drink from the same stupid cup as Sgt Rock. Ensign made one statement about whether he would ahve called banks regarding City Center of which Angle said she would not have done. She is not intelligent enough to have that conversation with bankers. In any event just what are you trying to say? Get your head out of your ---.
What did Harry Reid do about Fontainebleau? NOTHING!!!! It only make you wonder just how much MGM gave Old Harry?
Milt;
Have you ever been to the over priced Fontainebleau in Florida? The prices at the Wynn are a bargain compared to the Fontainebleau in Florida.
If you have you would understand that is a project that would have failed here if they did get open.
Their service for a high end hotel is the worst. They treat you very poorly as they demand top dollar for the rooms, food and service. They add 18% to all their charges as "tips". You buy a beer at one of their bars, they add the 18%.
In their restaurants they let you sit forever waiting to be served knowing they are getting 18% no matter how bad the service is.
Stayed there for a week during a convention and it was the worst experience we have ever had from any hotel. For an area that says they cater to tourists that place has no clue how to get a tourist to return to their hotel.
Was glad to see them not open here in Vegas. Now someone that knows what this town is about can open it and make it something to be proud of.
Voice-recognition technology is now affordable to talk radio stations and they won't take blocked calls, so caller ID is utilized as well. The concept of a "seminar caller" was invented so that when the talk radio blowhard ends up looking bad as a result of a caller, they can say: "oh, that was a 'seminar' caller, blah, blah.."
Limbaugh admitted in an interview with talk host, Peter B. Collins, that: "I take calls that make me look good." So the idea of "open lines" is bogus.
Look at Heidi Harris, who wouldn't come on TV to defend her false contention that the Reid car Bomb booby trap was fake, citing an admitted murderer and mobster as her source of information. I guess there are more than one "chiken lady" in town.
Stock has no credibility as well. He admits that Ensign's "first interview" followed a lunch he had with Ensign, where questions were discussed and prescreened. Of course, the radio station manager drove a decoy car to allow Ensign to avoid real media. The station had also planted Heather Kydd, Ensign's former "youth director," as a talk show host at the station. Kydd won a rigged "get your own talk show contest." Another winner? Ciara Turns Mathews, former Republican Party Communications Director, and now Angle Campaign spokesmouth. Very cozy out there with the Republicans for a news station, eh?
The "News Station" is just a Republican Party PR Outfit. Stock's daughter has apparently been Republican Party operative as well. Station involvement with a "needs improvement" (Charity Navigator 2 out of 4 stars) "veterans orphans" charity (founded by Iran Contra figure Oliver North) is also questionable
Maybe Ensign should make a joint appearance with the "Chicken Lady" to support Angle? on the Republican Station.
So what if she wouldn't help her constituents?
No one wants Crazy Angle calling them anyway.
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Proof that these two buffoons with say anything at all to win an election .... Endignnee and Comrad Angle .... anything
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Suckers, we are.
We can't afford six more years of Reid, or any Reid for that matter...
Dump RepubliCONs NOW! Followers (Sheepeople) of Pants down Gibbons and Ensign, and wacky Angle need to drink the koolaid. Sheepeople get slaughtered!
homer, careful with that wide paint brush. Good to know Senators Reid and Ensign have such loyal followers as we head down the path and over the cliff that both political parties engineered.
Angle was right on the City Center jobs. How did that work out for MGM Resorts? In the first 6 months of operation City Center lost over $300 million and the equity value is now only one fourth of the original $8 billion investment. Which means the banks, that Reid arm twisted, will lose Billions of dollars which will be made up by the taxpayers. Wonderful job Harry, once again your short sightedness has created a mess. The so called jobs you saved are now part of Nevada's great unemployed, stretching the city and State's resources beyond their limits. Had these workers been laid off 2 years ago they might have had a chance to find work elsewhere before the job market completely dried up. Now Nevada is stuck with them and the financial burden they represent.
Spoiler, if you have some insight that City Center is going to close, I suggest you privatize your social security and use the money to short MGM. But last time I looked they were still open, no layoffs and still fleecing the tourists who think they can "beat the house".
And since the unemployment rate here is still over 14%, how on earth might the people working there have found other work, other than by taking jobs from others? And what about the benefit to the economy from those 15,000 workers spending their paychecks here in town for the last two years, what would our economy be like without that? And what about the cost to the state of funding an additional 15,000 people on unemployment.
Can you spell "ripple effect"?
Sharron Angle is being honest, but we need her in this tax year. You have to wonder how and why the banks loan MGM/Mirage the money to complete City Center once Harry Reid made the call. But, Harry Reid is bias, he didn't save the 3500 jobs that the Fontainbleu would of brought. But, yet, the banks got $800 billion in bailouts. Reid is deceptive and a liar. His campaign ad are all based on hear say, preceptions and are dubbed for you to hear what he wants you to hear. Vote for Angle, she may not be the best candidate, but the only candidate to hold the line on tax increases and to stop the Obama and democrat runaway spending. The economy is not getting better with all the spending and the recession hasn't budged. Social Security is in a mess, it paid out more in benefits than it takes in for the first time in 75 years. Reid cannot say he didn't do it because he has been in office for 24 years. Harry Reid has been in office for 24 years, he has done nothing to maintain continuity for Nevada. Vote for Angle, Reid does not need to max out his retirement. Its cheaper to have Angle in office than Reid. Reid can nolonger be trusted, his pockets are lined with special interest and organized labor, his job bill did nothing for the average person, but did everything for unions. Vote for Angle, she can do no harm but will help us by keeping taxes low.
Lets be real, Harry didn't make calls to banks, he didn't save 12,000 jobs at CC of which only about 7,000 are left anyways. Why couldn't he save those other 5,000 that got laid off after it opened? Was he on vacation with Obama?
lv702 isn't critical of Angle for saying she would have made no effort to save the 12000+ jobs but is crtical of Reid for not making enough calls to save all the jobs? With logic like that, its no wonder he supports Angle.