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Protesters picket outside TJ’s Pizza Shack in Fernley as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) makes a campaign stop Tuesday, April 6, 2010.
Published Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | 11:11 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | 4:24 p.m.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) greets supporters following a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Monday, April 5, 2010. On Tuesday, Reid was spending the day in Northern Nevada during his campaign bus tour.
MINDEN - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid swung through the state's Republican heartland Tuesday and was greeted with a small but polite band of residents from the opposition.
Among the few dozen mostly supportive Democrats gathered at the 88 Cups cafe were a foursome of conservative activists who had been trying for two days to pinpoint the senator's arrival time.
Reid has long been a polarizing figure in Nevada, more so since becoming the Democratic party leader in 2005. That divide is apparent here in Douglas County, in the northern part of the state, where Republicans greatly outnumber Democrats.
Ursula McManus, a 32-year resident, came out to shake the senator's hand in silent opposition to his work in Washington. "He's not going to talk about anything we care about," she said.
Reid went on to deliver an upbeat, informal speech as supporters gathered on this second day of his bus tour through the state.
Reid said he believes the economy is looking better for the hard hit state even though he acknowledged "we're still a long way from getting out of the woods."
But Reid said a Las Vegas homebuilder told him this morning that business was showing signs of a rebound. Even his own hometown of Searchlight was seeing improvements, he said.
The senator listed a few of his accomplishments in Washington: the travel promotion bill that will help foster visitors to tourist-heavy Nevada; major water quality improvements to Lake Tahoe; and the massive health care reform bill.
One Carson City Democrat said she welcomed Reid's tour, saying the senator hit the right notes in his talk and was connecting with voters.
Reid has been greeted by friendlier crowds as the bus continued on, stopping at a senior center in Stagecoach, a family farm in Fallon and a pizzeria in Fernley.
Reid said that when Congress resumes next week, the Senate will take up financial reform as its top priority.
"We're going to take a whack out of Wall Street," Reid said on a campaign stop at Lattin Farm in Fallon. "We're going to go back and do some regulation."
At TJ's Pizza Shack in Fernley, pro-Reid supporters lined the street with homemade posters saying "Give 'em Hell Harry!"and "We can count on Harry Reid and he can count on us."
After Kathy Williams learned she would qualify for health insurance under the new health reform law, she told Reid he would have her support.
"Thank you Harry Reid," she said. "I'll vote for you forever. Thank you very much."
However, a few anti-Reid protesters were also out front. Several veterans on motorcycles said they didn't support the senator.
One veteran, Robert Diffenderfer, 73, of Fernley, refused to shake his hand.
"That's OK," Reid said. "I'm glad you're here. That's what Democracy's all about."
One protester held a sign that said, "Welcome to Reid's throw Nevada under the bus tour."
Reid faces a tough re-election this fall amid his own dismal approval rating and voter discontent with Washington.
Let me just say this Lisa. I can see from (yawn) your piece here that (yawn) Harry Reid's supporters are (yawn) - his supporters are ......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
awww...that little boy will spend his life working to pay off the debt harry created.
Hey Lisa, did you get the front seat on the bus and did you blow the horn?
The most expansion of government in the history of the United States will be reid's contribution. Not hardly what the people of Nevada expected from their Senator. Sorry harry, your failed.
i love the "small, but polite" remark.
that is SO editorializing.
"small" is relative. was it 10, 100, 1000 people? what is "small"?
"but polite" is as offensive as "well-spoken".
so...what you are saying that NORMALLY people opposed to liberals are mean and rude?
so, the fact they were "but polite" is news?
judging from the behavior of the nba fans that came to town for all-thug weekend, i would say THEY are the ones that need to learn "politeness".
stevem,
"small, but polite" simply means that none present spoke with a "negro dialect".
@Stevem If you weren't so quick to judgment you would've read that the writer uses the word "foursome" in the second paragraph. And that little boy can thank Dubya for leaving the highest deficit ever for a new president.
I heard there are republican chickens that lay republican eggs...
Libertarian, teabag, independent American, and none of the above will draw off votes and Reid will win.
That lttle boy looks like he is ready to cry....why not? The rest of America is crying thanks to Redi & Pelosi...and Obama.
Is that a typo..Comma Cafe...everyone looks asleep or in a daze....rename it Coma Cafe
many american VETERANS are tea PARTY members.
it's one thing to not agree with the mission and movement of that party, but to use the derogatory term "teabag" towards them is completely disgusting and i can't believe the "sPun" allows that word to be used.
Harry Reid has forgotten the west; both Nevada and California have very very high unemployment rates. People with great work backgrounds; most with high school and college diplomas; cannot find jobs.
Harry should stop his campaign and finally put together a JOBS bill that will work. Yes, you can hire temporary census workers and make March #s look better for 2 weeks - but the key thing is that there needs to be a serious job bill and less than 4 per cent unemployment by November.
So far, Obama and Harry simply seem to say - well, it will take 5 or 6 years to get back to full employment. Well, that is 2 terms of an Obama administration (if he wins a 2nd term).
Can we afford Obama and Reid if they are already saying they cannot put together a powerful jobs bill to put Nevadans back to work. No, we cannot. We must vote Red out of office and do so in a few months.
For those of you hard core Reid supporters, please elaborate on how Reid will get the country back to less than 4 per cent unemployment by November 2010 - not 2017 or 2018 - as they are now saying. That will be most helpful for all of us....and also for the country and for Nevada families.
Without a good employment picture, we need new leaders in Washington DC. We cannot wait any longer.
I am glad the Sun's staff removed the picture with Reid next to child, using children as props is low, even for a Democrat.
Republicans like to pretend that Bush wasn't a disaster for America. Where were all the fiscal conservatives when Bush was president? Turn off the bigot, Rush Limbaugh.
bye bye harry...november is around the corner. start counting the days!
thank you, las vegas sun for deleting teamster's comment.
ya...i sent the request.
Whose side are you on Sun ? , I guess the no government idol rich like stevem.
Nevada teabaggers want to beat Harry Reid so badly that's it's making them crazier than ever.
Funny how 'baggers hate on Harry but give the soon-to-be-indicted John Ensign a free pass even though that creep has committed serious crimes.
Just more typical right-wing BS, that's all.
The picture of Harry with the kid reminds me of the photo of Saddam Hussein with the little kid a few years ago. Both kids looked scared to death. Bye-bye Harry.
Rural Fernley. A veritable bastion of progressiveness. Check the demographics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernley,_Ne...
Tea Party would do well to rent space in the VFW club.
I don't know why Reid is wasting his time in the cow counties, they will vote a for a duck as long as it has (R) behind the name......concentrate on Clark County & Washoe County, that's where the race will be won, if Reid is to win.
The Sweet Tea Party is nothing more than KKK without hoods.
Harry Reid is a dead political fish. There is no way he will be re-elected. However, should he run against Sue Lowden it may very well be closer than any of us realize.
And these same yahoos will be out urging Nevadans to vote for John Ensign next time around.
And never a Tea Partier to be seen in the meantime showing any disssatisfaction in front of Ensign's
offices here and throughout the state.
What a bunch of losers.
Morally and politcally, Harry Reid is ten times the quality of any of his opponents.
And he's done 10 times more for the state than John Ensign has.
But that doesn't register of course with these wackos.
Harry Reid... Probably not a Tea Party Member.
cadaver...
Take a pill.
You angry folks, man, they ought to come up with
an "angry NutJob" pill.
I can't wait for the dumbbutts in mining country to lose their jobs after they run out Reid! HAHAHAHA! Talk about karma! Idiots.
PROVE TO ME THAT THE GOP CARES ABOUT THE WORKING CLASS!
Reid is despicable! This idiot needs to go away!
It takes only a half a brain to see we are coming under seige of a Socialist coup d'etat. If this is your cup tea then Harry's your man.
All you people of the valley...
Why waste time and energy with these corrupt inidividuals who promise us ideas and usually fail!!!???
INSTEAD, LETS WORK TOGETHER AND ORGANIZE OURSELVES AND CREATE A NEW GENERATION OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY!! Here are the plans:
1. Eliminate those wealth redistributing programs that PAY PEOPLE TO FAIL AND REDUCE PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY including Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, etc.... HAVE PRIVATE GROUPS HELP PEOPLE OUT!!
2. REDUCE LABOR LAWS!! That means unnecessary min wage, OHSA, and all the other mess regulations!! MAKE THE LABOR MARKET COMPETITIVE!!
3. REDUCE TAXES AND HAVE MAJOR DEREGULATION!!!
Have public safety and infrastructure funded other involuntary ways!! Oh yes.. STOP THE CRAP FANNIE AND FREDDIE BULLSH*T THAT WRECKED THE VALLEY'S MORTGAGES!!!
4. ABOLISH THE CCSD AND ALL THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS!!! Stop those cowards for WASTING OUR TAX FUNDS AND PROVIDE POOR SERVICE TO YOUNG INDIVIDUALS!!! Deliver competition, choice, and PROFIT DRIVEN INNOVATION OUR LEARNING SYSTEMS!!!
5. EDUCATE THE VALLEY ABOUT INVESTING AND $$$$ MANAGEMENT!!! Help the valley gain its investments spirit, avoid liabilities, and HAVE $$$ WORK FOR THEM!!
6. REDUCE PLANNING DEPT. ROLE IN PLANNING OUR CITIES. Let private companies do more of the work and design mixed-use, diverse towns that provide transportation choice, energy efficient, have social gathering places, and characterized by architectural appeal!!!
ALL THESE IDEAS WILL HAPPEN AND STAY IN VEGAS SOON!! SOMEDAY THE VALLEY WILL BE THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD FOR THESE MOVERS WITHOUT REID!! OH YEAH!!!
Harry Reid is the best man for the job.
He gets it done.
Did the teamster get his 2:25 comment removed because of his vulgar language about Tea Party members???
No larry, my comment wasn't about your
teabagger friends.
I see many of the same republican names over and over in this particular comment area. They must be tired of competing with the wingnuts at the rj website. Harry kept nuclear waste from being dragged across the nation unsafely and then dumped here to ruin the ground water. That's a decadesIlong accomplishment that alone gets my vote. Go get the wingnuts, Harry!
Yeah Teamster, Harry will have an illegal alien driving your forklift!
Let's cut Harry Reid's huge government pension in half and also make him participate in his lousy health plan.
Here ye, hear ye:
All ye naysayers will be eating your words in November when Harry Reid is re-elected.
HAHAHA
HEHEHE
"The senator listed a few of his accomplishments in Washington: the travel promotion bill that will help foster visitors to tourist-heavy Nevada; major water quality improvements to Lake Tahoe; and the massive health care reform bill."
Wasn't that travel bill co-sponsored by Ensign? And yes, water quality is important, but not as important as creating new jobs. When Reid can say he has done that perhaps "naysayers" will support him...
Ah, the senile Harry Greed. Stated that even his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada economy is getting better. I think he is refering to the sale of eggs there when they sold out to the Harry Reid thugs to physically assualt the Tea Part Express buses. Again, Harry Reid is so arrogant that he has no idea how much disdain we have for him.
Our crooked senator Reid also seems to think that the people of Nevada will forget about his reckless behaivors in Washignton and will simply buy his way back into our hearts by raising $25 million for his "You can't do without me" TV ads. He stated, "if the election was held today, I would win." Crooked, dirty, arrogant, and now senile. This guy just doesn't get it, but he will!
RE: By Gmann29 on April 6, 2010 @ 1:33 p.m
Actually it is a typo, the place is called Comma Coffee, not Comma Cafe.
But don't feel bad; there are a lot of dumb***es who say Coma!
Look, if the Republican trolls didn't post here, they might have to do something useful, like read a book.
There is a good reason to believe that the bus leased by the Senators people has no registration or licensing "For Hire" service. The bus needs a Nevada license (CPCN#) to do a pickup in Nevada and needs a DOT (FMSCA) license to travel throughout the state and to other states. Without these licenses the bus might not have proper insurance, drivers paid illegally or under the table, etc. This should be investigated as taxpayer or donated funds are being misused and monies are being sent out of state to unlicensed operators.
A Concerned Citizen
Dear Las Vegas Sun censors:
I have brought this to your attention several times before, however I am doing so again to point out your bias. I don't much expect you to change your censorship policy because you are a liberal rag that couldn't even survive without the RJ, however:
Teabag means to dunk ones scrotum into the open mouth of another person.
The tea party movement is something different, it's not "teabag".
Now go do your thing and continue to unfairly censor my comment while leaving the very offensive term "teabag" up all over the place.
Thanks for being consistent.
3......2......1........
roccoosp,
Maybe we can get our AG to investigate? LOL
Look, if the Republican trolls didn't post here, they might have to do something useful, like read a book.
now thats a funny statement considering most of the posters are las vegas democrats!!!
we in the north may be country, but we have water!!!!!!!
wanting to beat Harry is making repubs crazy? Is that why democrats have been all over the news criticizing and trying to downplay the tea party?
Personally, it's fine by me they don't take us serously. Theres about to be a major over haul of politicians this fall and I'm just gonna be laughing my butt off on how "shock" the radical Progressives are. LOL You know what they say about paybacks......
If he does win, it won't be because he won the votes it will be because he bought the votes. Dishonest, backdoor deals is how he works, with lots of money, you can buy just about anybody so long as they have a "D" behind their party. Make them an offer they can't refuse. That should be his motto or slogan for his campaign.
and dirty deeds done dirt cheap should be his campaign song.
Harry will win re-election in November...
A majority of the voters in Nevada realize that Harry has given us great representation in Washington. They want that to continue....
Replacing Harry with a completely out of touch Republican with no seniority would put Nevada at the back of the line in Washington...
The two leading GOP Senate candidates in this state, "baby Tark" and "sorry Sue" have not a clue about issues......that's state & national issues.
It would take them a couple years in Washington before they figured out what was happening, and three or four aditional years to figure out what to do about it.....
Harry is behind in many of the polls, but as the economy continues to improve, and more & more Nevadans realize that the health care bill will benefit them, look for a huge change in the polls......of course polls don't win elections. Astute, honest & hard working politicans do...
Harry is a honest, hard working and astute politican. Need I say more?
GIVE'EM HELL HARRY! GIVE'EM HELL!!
yeah, tell us what you're smoking!
and please, wish for something else, he has already given us hell.
Note to El_lobo or is it El_loco? Harry Reid has helped no one, but himself and he's made millions selling the rest of us out. He's proof that you can make money in politics; nobody from Searchlight has done better. As far as the rest of us, Nevada is at the bottom in dollars returned from DC; some influence. At least he can finance Rory.
Give Em Hell Harry ! You were there for us for health care ! we will be there for you in November !
he has already given us hell in Nevada, try for something else. and whats this "us" crap? Speak for yourself, who do you think is paying for this blunder?
Jeez, I wonder if lipton's veins are popping out of his neck?
Have you tried some of that soothing Herbal Tea?
Did anybody else see in the pictures that all the people with Reid were mostly OLD WHITE PEOPLE? except that 1st picture with young kid.
Give those teabaggers HELL HARRY.
Listen r4akes,
That's not a fair statement!
Harry Reid has done wonders for Nebraska, Louisiana, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Montana.
He just doesn't do anything for Nevada.
The guy was elected when Bush took the state with his slogan: "Harry Reid, Independent like Nevada."
Thus he stole the Republican vote--like mine--and then goes on in a year to be the majority whip. Too bad he could not be impeached for his campaign slogan-which was a complete lie.
The day is soon coming when he is going out. What he did for Nevada? Well, I hear we receive less federal aid than any other state(?). Everybody know that all his time was spent on Obama's agenda, not Nevada's. Like he lives in a world of total arrogance. He thinks the people are too dumb to know what they want anyway. He lives beyond the Will of the People.
Bye, you corrupt old man! You're out in November. Wish you and your wife had to go on Obamacare, you worthless old basta*d!
el-lobo? HAVE THEY TAKEN YOU TO OUR LEADER YET??? NA NEW NA NEW BUD.