FLASHPOINT for Aug 21, 2007

Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 | 6:56 a.m.

For Jon Porter, the congressman besieged by anti-war activists and targeted by national Democrats, it's a potentially winning move. Bringing in Phil Speight, who I think has been Henderson city manager since WWII, as his chief of staff, Porter is trading a non-Nevadan for one with deep roots in the place where the congressman needs them to be planted: his district. Porter's current top aide, Mike Hesse, is headed home to Colorado, which is fortuitous for the congressman and Speight. The city manager has a ton of relationships after all his years in local government, relationships that may be able to help Porter in his reelection, which may be his most difficult yet. Now about that pay cut Speight took for this "plum" job

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