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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) holds “Fifi,” a toy poodle belonging to Ron Malone, right, during a campaign stop in Lovelock, Nev., Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
Published Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | 3:36 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | 4:08 p.m.
Sun Coverage
LOVELOCK – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again showed today he expects Sue Lowden to be his Republican opponent, delivering a sharp attack on some gauzy TV ads Lowden is running to burnish her credentials with veterans.
The ad shows Lowden, a former Miss New Jersey, as a USO volunteer entertaining the troops during the Vietnam War.
But Reid's campaign highlighted some Lowden legislative votes, seeking to portray them as anti-veteran.
Reid said Lowden sponsored a bill in 1995 that would charge non-combat veterans $100 to be buried in the state's veterans' cemeteries. The bill did not pass.
Lowden also was the only "no" vote on a 1995 bill to raise funds by offering specialty license plates for vets at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
"I'm glad she went over there with the other beauty queens," Reid said. "Standing next to somebody doesn't do anything for veterans."
Reid touted his own record, including securing funding for the veterans’ hospitals in Las Vegas and Reno, passage of the new GI Bill for vets returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and his work to ensure veterans are able to retain both disability and vets' benefits.
Lowden's campaign said she suggested the "nominal" cemetery fee because "Sue always made it a priority to maintain a balanced budget while serving in the Nevada State Senate," said Lowden spokeswoman Crystal Feldman,
"It costs money in order to properly protect, maintain and pay for the veteran cemeteries," Feldman said.
Lowden withdrew her legislation once the federal government, with legislation supported by Reid, offered its own plan to cover more cemetery costs.
Lowden's campaign explained that she voted against the license plate bill because she disagreed with an amendment requiring a minimum number of plates to be ordered before the program would get fully underway.
The Lowden team also took their own swipe at Reid, reminding that during the height of the Iraq war in 2007, when the military was planning a troop surge, the senator said that the "war is lost" a comment that drew criticism.
Sue Lowden is an empty suit. Nevada will be left barely represented if she goes to the Senate.
Must be tough to have to be out there amongst all the "smelly tourists" (Harry Reid speaking of the Capitol visitors; 12/2/08).
Gee, Harry - you going to kiss the dog or just wait for it to do a number?
Thanks for the memories harry, now just go away.
Here we go again. Suzy Lowdown is all talk and no action... Except when it comes to (mis)using her position to attack Nevada's working families and enrich herself. She obviously doesn't care about veterans, or for that matter about anyone else who can't bribe her for a few thousand bucks.
To quote her buddy Miss Sarah... "Thanks, but no thanks." I'm sticking with Senator Reid.
"It costs money in order to properly protect, maintain and pay for the veteran cemeteries".
Apparently, Lowden's visit to Vietnam during the war had no impact on her views of men and women that served their country.
This vet is voting for Harry. Proudly.
I wonder how many of the workers Lowden laid off while giving herself a bonus were veterans. Then again, she probably didn't bother to notice they were human beings.
Don't vote for either Lowden or Reid. Nothing like having her husbands company layoff peeps so her husband can get a big bonus. Say no to Reid, he has done JACK for your state. Don't believe all the hype. NEvada would have been sitting pretty if Reid would of had the government give Nevada $$$$ every year since circa 1980 (when yucca started)...
When Harry Reid said, "The war is lost." Was he talking about Iraq or his chances of reelection???
I agree that Lowden is an empty suit. Nonetheless... A 20 year old friend waiting for deployment orders, here in Reno, recently went to the VA hospital for a head injury. The doctor ordered a cat scan. The next appointment is 3 weeks out. It can't be done in Reno. The equipment is too old. He has to take his head injury, 3 weeks from now, to South Lake Tahoe. Seventy five miles away. So Pinkie, while you've been dazzling everyone with your visits to Walter Reed and paying lip service to everyone trailing you there, what have you been doing for the vets here in Reno? Huh, Pinkie Reid?
Go Sue. I've seen the Tark ads and you are only one taking on Reid and his lies. Money is not service and the federal government does it worse than anyone else. No surprise that Vet care is what Reid has in mind for the rest of us (but not Senators).
I'd vote for BIG BIRD if I knew that would get Dirty Harry out.
Sue Lowden reminds me of Leona Helmesly.
Hey Larry, how IS that "war" going???
Lisa Mascaro....define "gauzy" for us.
Reid could care less about disabled Vets. I have proof of a Distressed Disabled Vietnam Vet calling his office and nearly committed suicide when Reid's office, not only didn't call 911, but refused to follow up on this Veteran the following day as promised by his staff. So ruthless and calious, it's beyond comprehension.
The name calling from the bleeding heart Liberal Democrats is pathetic. But what else can you expect from the Party of Hate...
"The name calling from the bleeding heart Liberal Democrats is pathetic. But what else can you expect from the Party of Hate..."
So you indict "name-calling" from Democrats while CALLING THE DEMOCRATS NAMES?
You have failed hypocrisy 101, again, Larry.
I can't see whether either the license plates or the burial fee are especially important. It's just small potatoes and has very little to do with veterans and their problems which often have more to do with homelessness, checks, jobs, and getting to the right agency. I don't see $100 as an excessive fee, but, if someone is broke, it could be wavered. The license plate idea is good though, and it is being offered.
An empty suit? That is a totally vacuous comment. We will see once Lowden is elected.
suelowdown, former TV field reporter and head of the failed Nevada GOP, is going down to the mat...hard.
Harry Reid doesn't want to hit a woman but he's taking the gloves off for this one. Your pretty, made-up face will be an ugly bloody pulp by the time he's finished with you.
I pity the fool.
these two clowns are all thats out there??? you got to be kidding---two freakn losers again--this is like last years presidential race--two losers.
No greedy republican will replace Harry.
If it isn't obvious, Harry Reid is senile.
Lowden showed up on the "News" station (gag) this morning for a softball interview and a shoe shine. She said that "Veterans didn't mind paying the fees." OK, good if Veterans don't mind paying the fees, then let's raise the fees on them. Raise the fees for a plate, raise the fees for a VA visit, raise the fees for a plot, raise the fees for everything Veteran because Lowden says they don't mind. and we can use the money to balance the budget.
The way Harry keeps targeting Lowden reminds me of a certain rabbit and briar patch.
The truth about Sue Lowden:
www.muthsuntruths.wordpress.com
Sue Lowden tried to tax dead veterans.
http://bit.ly/ahilhO
Ever since her days as a local tv station broadcaster I pegged Sue Lowden as a classist climbing the marble ladder. And she has never done anything to prove my initial impression of her wrong. She's a former beauty queen whose ambition in life has been to be seen in all the right places. She performs well, married well, and hangs out with the right people, but doesn't have a clue what life is like for the majority of Americans - let alone those in her own state. And she'll throw us under the bus faster than you can say, "are you going to the party next Saturday?"
Reid is a corrupt suit. Reid has not been representing Nevada, he has been working for Obama to force that horrible man's agenda down our throats. It's time that old man be sent back to Searchlight. Maybe then Reid will finally realize how he went terribly wrong.
First - Sue Lowden did more to support veterens just by going to 'The Nam' then gReid has ever or will ever do.
Second - Just like gReid holding the 'Lap Dog' fifi, he'd be terrified of facing anything other than a war movie, unless fully protected in a sheltered environment.
Last - I'd rather have a woman with a spine, than this limp noodle who's done more to harm Nevada just by being from here...
What ever happens we have to keep candidates like Sue Lowden and John Ensign around. They have to be the pride of the Republican of the party.
Could it be possible that the Tea Party Express knows some thing of an embarrasing nature concerning Mr Stupak. Was he ever a Boy Scout Leader?
Lowden says "Veterans didn't mind paying the fees" - really? THAT is an out-and-out lie!
Veterans were promised their benefits for free - and have opposed any sort of "fees" or "co-pays" for decades - Lowden is out-and-out lying!
I saw the ad, and it was a typical example of how some politicians pander and patronize veterans with the obligatory "thank you" and no substance!
Harry Reid has brought millions of dollars to Nevada in helping veterans - THAT is a FACT!
The Disabled Veterans in Nevada need Harry Reid to keep fighting the good fight for all of us - and I'd encourage all Disabled Veterans to join "Veterans For Harry Reid" and let's re-elect this good man who has been serving all of us as the Senate Majority Leader!
What a shameless, laughable ad from Lowden that draws on the Republican tradition of insulting us with their "We support the troops because we're more patriotic than the America haters" garbage. Of course "Mrs. Patriotism's" voting record tells a completely different story. They usually do.
I hope that Johnathan Abbinett does not think he is speaking for ALL the veterans of Nevada. Let alone the disabled veterans...
Be careful what you say there Abbinett, you are about to dishonor your fellow veterans...
@ LarryVegas, Are you delusional? Of course no one, not me, not you, not any one of us speaks for ALL veterans of Nevada - that's ridiculous dude! Then, you caution me to "be careful what (I) say..." - you might want to take your own advice!
Here's a hint, just because you have some thought in your head, you might want to think about that thought and ask yourself if it's even logical before you type it into history?
Oh, wait, it doesn't matter because you're an anonymous coward that doesn't use your real full name - hey, sorry I brought it up! Here I am out in the open and having an adult discussion with someone hiding in the shadows and shouting out - my mistake!
Good grief. Hasn't Nevada learned its lesson from the parade of criminal republican elected officials? Gibbons the Groper, Ensign soon-to-be-indicted and now another bubble-headed newscaster who can recite bumper sticker slogans written by her buddies on Wall Street. I hear she wants us to barter to pay doctor and dentist bills. With what...our first-born? Our underwater homes? And she loves, loves, loves guns. Bet she'll have a militia roaming the streets of Henderson and enforcing not the law, but whatever she decides ought to be the law...like the militias in Oklahoma. Begs the tv show question, "Is Nevada smarter than a fifth grader?"