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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | 11:14 a.m.
Sun Coverage
Sun archives
- Nevada candidate pays bill to end bad check case (4-2-2010)
- Tea Party candidate could siphon GOP votes in bid to remove Harry Reid (3-5-2010)
- Tea Party to field candidate in battle for Harry Reid’s Senate seat (2-13-2010)
- The Tea Party’s (old) paranoia (1-24-2010)
- ‘Tea Party’ set turns out in Las Vegas at its anti-Harry Reid finest (1-13-2010)
- Grass roots or not, Nevada tea parties had assist (9-1-2009)
- Hundreds rally against Harry Reid, proposed health care reform (8-31-2009)
- Countering the hysteria (8-26-2009)
- Anti-tax advocates rally against spending, Obama (4-15-2009)
Beyond the Sun
CARSON CITY – Scott Ashjian, fighting to remain on the election ballot as the Tea Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada, says he doesn’t think he will get the endorsement of the party to be made Thursday.
Ashjian also says he doesn’t intend to attend a rally of the Tea Party on Thursday in Carson City.
His comments came after District Judge Todd Russell took under study arguments in a suit filed by Tim Fasano, the Senate candidate for the Independent American Party, to remove Ashjian from the ballot.
Ashjian intends to run, even without the endorsement of national Tea Party officials. He subscribes to the doctrine of limited government, but he says he hasn’t collected any campaign contributions and has only spent his own money so far. He didn't know how much money that was.
Joel Hansen, attorney for the Independent American Party, said Ashjian made a false statement when he filed his candidacy and Judge Russell must remove him from the ballot.
Hansen argued that Ashjian signed his declaration of candidacy on March 2 as a member of the Tea Party, but Ashjian was still a Republican and didn’t switch his registration to the Tea Party until later in the day.
But Allen Lichtenstein, attorney for Ashjian, told the judge there was substantial compliance with the law. He said Ashjian didn't mislead the voters. The registration was changed within hours.
“The integrity of the system did not suffer,” he said.
Lichtenstein said Ashjian doesn’t have to be a member of the Tea Party or a registered voter to sign up as a candidate. Hansen said the issue is whether he filed a false statement on his candidacy declaration.
Asked why he didn’t think he would get the endorsement of the Tea Party, Ashjian said it has come out "with a lot of negative advertisements" and made false statements about him.
He said the best candidate for the Republican Party would be former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle of Reno, “but I don’t think she will be nominated.”
Why do the teabaggers hate themselves?
"Jon Scott Ashjian ... says it's time for "normal people" to govern."
I agree - we've had enough of Jim Gibbons and John Ensign.
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This guy is a shill for harry. They put him up to it to try and confuse the public. The problem is harry, the voters aren't as stupid as you think. Neither Reid will win in November.
@neiman1
Can you prove that? I bet you can't.
tea baggers are not normal people
I CAN'T show you a cashed check from Reid to Ashjian. I CAN'T show you phone records of Reid's people talking to Ashjian's attorney. I also CANNOT show you video of one of Reid's top aids talking to Ashjian in a restaurant.
See the problem with the logic there dhvincent1? What "proof" would you like that Reid is not behind Ashjian? When someone makes an accusation, the onus in on the accuser to prove the charge.
Conspiracy theories are the last tactic of the desperate. Most conspiracy theories usually have a glimmer of something credible about them. Right wingnut conspiracy theories are just embarrassing.
How about a debate between Lowden, little Tark and Ashjian?
Probably won't happen because Ashjian might be too much for the establishment wingnuts. They can't take the chance of being exposed for the phonies they are.
They can't take the chance of being exposed for the phonies they are.
= Yeah, Ashjian was sure exposed all right.
Any we're all waiting for some proof that Ashjian is a Reid plant. It's easy to make allegations but harder to prove them isn't it pseudo-patriots?
All you "independent" minded conservatives should vote for your man; put up or shut up.
Sue Lowden is who will get the nod. This article and the usual whack jobs, aka Progressives in here are just ranting/wasting their time.
Why is there anyone still reading this biased rag? This guy (Ashjian), has nothing to do with the tea party movement. The real tea party disavowed him from the very beginning. The Sun continues to associate him with the tea party, even calling him the "Tea Party Candiadate", when clearly he is not. (He made up his own party: "The Tea Party of Nevada"). As far as I can tell, he and other crooks from his LLC's are the only members. The Sun should be ashamed to call themselves journalists.