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Published Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 3:04 p.m.
Updated Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 3:14 p.m.
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Hundreds of conservatives rallied in Carson City today, protesting taxes, the new federal health care law and promising to vote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid out of office in November.
Police estimated the crowd on the legislative mall, between the Capitol building and Legislature, at between 500 and 700 -- a fraction of the 2,000 to 3,000 that showed up last year on tax day, April 15, when the Legislature was in session and the tea party movement was in its infancy.
Of the major GOP U.S. Senate candidates, Sue Lowden and John Chachas spoke to the gathering organized by one of the Nevada tea party affiliate groups, Anger is Brewing. Gov. Jim Gibbons, who's running for re-election, also spoke.
Danny Tarkanian, running for U.S. Senate, was in Las Vegas at a tea party rally and former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle was in Washington D.C., accepting the endorsement from the national Tea Party Express organization.
The protests were part of a campaign that started with a cross-country tour launched three weeks ago in Searchlight and which wrapped up today in Washington, D.C.
People attend a Tea Party protest in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2010.
In the nation's capital, the group carried signs that read "Don't Tread on Me" and "Follow the Constitution." The protesters streamed to Washington's Freedom Plaza to hear exhortations against the political order. The slogans were biting, sometimes raw: "We Want Regime Change," "Save a Seal, Club a Liberal," "Down with the Gov't Takeover," "End the Fed" and "Waterboard Bernanke." Some American flags waved upside down in the breeze.
Meanwhile in Carson City, the protesters were decked out in red, white and blue, holding signs calling Obama a socialist and praising the late writer Ayn Rand's character John Galt.
Lowden, in an interview, praised the movement. "These are people tired of yelling at the TVs and have gotten off the couch," she said.
She added that the endorsement from the Tea Party Express for Angle wouldn't affect the race. "This will be decided by Nevada voters, not people from D.C." she said.
Indeed, Debbie Landis, president of Anger is Brewing, which is part of a loose coalition of groups that make up Nevada's movement, said the Tea Party Express' endorsement, "came completely from outside Nevada."
She said, "It's irresponsible for the group to try to come from the outside. This is Nevada. We're a strong, independent, conservative state."
Later this month, 43 Nevada grassroots activists will come together - "like a jury" - to pick a candidate for the movement to endorse.
Lowden got the crowd fired up by promising to defeat Reid. "The most powerful man Nevada has ever had in Washington won't be going back to Washington," she said.
Chachas, a Wall Street investment banker, warned that those in the audience had to stay united, otherwise, Reid "can win with 44 or 45 percent of the vote."
The movement opened its tour nearly three weeks ago with a Searchlight rally that drew about 8,000 and heard from one of the few politicians embraced by the tea party, Sarah Palin. On March 27, Tea Party advocates marched to the hometown of Sen. Harry Reid to show their contempt and protest what they say is a dangerous lurch toward Big Government enacted since the election of President Barack Obama.
The Tea Party movement has been building for a year, opposing Obama initiatives including health care reform and a cap on carbon emissions.
They served as important volunteers for victorious conservative gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia, and reached an ecstatic high when Scott Brown, a little-known Massachusetts state senator, won the Senate seat that had been held by a Kennedy since the 1950s and eliminated the Democrats’ 60-seat Senate supermajority.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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I wish howdydostu would explain with some details what Dinah Titus has done to earn his support. I voted for her, and I think she has a good value system, but frankly I haven't been able to pinpoint anything worthwhile she has done for the Nevada. My personal belief is that she has been strong-armed by Polosi and the ruling "elite" in Washington and has been unable to make much impact at all. Perhaps this is the fate of all new congress people. But I think that is part of what the "Tea Party" folks are trying to express: frustation that we have developed a ruling class in Washington who have no regard for the people they supposedly represent.
To my friend lvsunreader,
Please, PLEASE visit her website..also she has been very hands on in shepherding people with questions or problems facing foreclosure by holding special meetings to assist them.
Fixing the mess that we're in is going to take more than just a year. And having a good value system as you acknowledge she does is a far superior value system than the one that this article writes about...tea-baggers.
She has been working on our problems...go to her website and check it out for yourself.
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142
I'm so happy someone asked for FACTS - Here's a link to the factual realities the Republicans won't tell you about:
http://www.ctj.org/obamastaxcuts/nv.pdf
If anyone really wants to know the answers to their questions, it's not very difficult to do research on today's internet - easier than ever before!
I know who I'm supporting, and why - and it's almost all of the Democrats: Harry Reid, Shelley Berkley, Dina Titus, Rory Reid and all of our Nevada Constitutional Officers who are incumbents and those in the Nevada Assembly and Senate - and the best qualified new candidates running to make Nevada better than ever!
Many choices this cycle are very easy to make - look at who just "talks-the-talk" and who has actually "walked-the-walk" - no brainer!
The "Tea Party Express" has made Sarah Palin a VERY RICH woman. Since July 1, Sarah has raked in an estimated TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-pali......
WHO IS ZOOMIN' WHO???
btw...
Does anyone else hear the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard when she howls out her nonsense?
Nails on a chalkboard? No way!
I just hear the folksy wisdom of a half-term Governess/multimillionaire who demands Lear jets, posh penthouse suites and finds black Lincoln Towncars merely "acceptable" when traveling.
She's just a regular gal, gmag!
Palin can talk a lot and say very little. She is all sound bites, cliches and talking points, not one original thing or idea has ever come from Palin.
Hell, play me half of Palin's fees and I will get up there and spew nonsensical idiocy and little zingers to get the crowd fired up.....you betcha I could do it!
"Palin can talk a lot and say very little. She is all sound bites, cliches and talking points, not one original thing or idea has ever come from Palin.....Hell, play me half of Palin's fees and I will get up there and spew nonsensical idiocy and little zingers to get the crowd fired up."
Funny, throughout the '08 campaign I was saying the same thing about Obama. Come to think of it, he hasn't changed now that he got the job.
Notice how the signs are mostly homemade? This has the democrats worried because this is a real movement by real voters. Not a union sponsored event with union members bused in and handed pre-made signs when they exit the bus. There is a big difference here.
TEA.... Taxed Enough Already. If you disagree, I ask you to please voluntarily contribute more of your money today, April 15th, to the government. The funny part is nobody will voluntarily give more to the government, but they will vote for people who will take more from them in taxes. That still doesn't make any sense to me.
larry5:
Tell us one original thought that Palin has had.......did she even come up with the idea to bail out on her commitment to the people of Alaska, or was some pundit in her ear saying how much money she could make on her comedy tour ??
One original Palin idea, and I will stand corrected.
Also, did you hear about the new Obama Menu at McDonald's?
Apparently you can order anything you want and the person in line behind you has to pay for it.
Unlike the Bush menu where you jsut take your order and go, because nothing was funded anyway.....the tax cuts, the wars.
Good come back Bertsos.
"Homemade" signs = authenticity?
And who said critical thinking was dead?
Never wrote or alluded to the word authenticity. None of this matters...the only thing that matters is the November elections.
"Never wrote or alluded to the word authenticity. "
Bull, Noindex:
"This has the democrats worried because this is a real movement by real voters. Not a union sponsored event with union members bused in and handed pre-made signs when they exit the bus. There is a big difference here."
So what, exactly, was the "big difference?" You claimed the "homemade" signs were evidence this was "a real movement by real voters."
You argued it was evidence of authenticity. Don't backtrack now!
Tired of the Tea Party?
How is it that the angry and scared members of the radical fringe dominate the news cycle every night?
They scream about deficits and "outrageous taxes." Where were they when 3/4ths of our 10 trillion dollar debt was created by George W. Bush?
Meanwhile our country faces critical challenges in our infrastructure, education, economy and overall quality of life.
Taxes and government are an essential part of all of these. The answer isn't "big government" but effective government. And it's essential that we all pay our fair share. (This means citizens and corporations alike).
We are aware that government, like any big business, can involve corruption, but we also know that our government is just us - of, by and for The People.
Come join the growing movement to set the record straight and stand up for our country and our future!
* Obama has passed 25 separate tax cuts.
* Obama's stimulus package included $300 billion in middle class tax cuts -- one of the largest in history.
* The recent healthcare reform law includes tax credits and savings for small businesses and working people.
* Unlike President Bush's 2001 tax cuts, which went to the wealthiest 2.2%, President Obama's tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit working and middle class families -- 95% of all Americans.
http://theother95.com/
Homemade signs are nice and fuzzy..but don't be a dolt like one sign holder here in Henderson who's sign read: NO HEALTHCARE RASHING......it's RATIONING......you just have to shake your head and laugh sometimes !!
edgewise:
Please don't muddle their fantasy with facts.
Remember these are Fox News viewers and they are used to lies and made up data spewed from Fox.
Facts be dammed, lies sell......witness Cheney, Bachmann & Palin......mostly lairs, but very popular with the Fox News viewers.
"you just have to shake your head and laugh sometimes !!" Agree with you there Bertsos.
edgewise, most fiscally conservative people I know were not happy with the Bush era spending. However the spending has to stop at some point....and a lot of people think we have reached that point.
Yeah, let's just shut down the only entity with the means to spend during the worst economic conditions since the 1930's.
Let's have the people, the corporations and the government just shut down spending and see how long it takes for the depression to set in!!!
The GOP had the congress and the White house for 6 years.......why didn't they reign in spending? They didn't, and now you want us to vote in more republicans ?!?!?! For what, so they can finish the really important flag burning amendment ?!?!?!
No Thanks.
Bertsos. Why would you want to be corrected?
Read my post again. I said that the same things you noted about Palin apply to Obama. He's a politician who, like most of the rest of them, has no opposition to lying in order to get elected.
"Funny, throughout the '08 campaign I was saying the same thing about Obama. Come to think of it, he hasn't changed now that he got the job."
someone just chooses not to listen
"edgewise, most fiscally conservative people I know were not happy with the Bush era spending. However the spending has to stop at some point....and a lot of people think we have reached that point."
That point suddenly manifested itself when a Democrat was elected to office, noindex. All those "fiscally conservative people" you know didn't mutter a damn word when Bush and the Republicans were in charge.
You have to be able to understand why the majority of Americans look at the tea party and can see that they are unprincipled and opportunistic.
If the tea party were principled, they would've protested in 2001, when Bush financed his tax cuts for the wealthy with deficit spending, or at ANY OTHER TIME during Bush's reign when he continued massive spending.
But that would be authentic, wouldn't it?
Larry5:
It's obviously too difficult to come up with a Palin original......I understand, don't sweat it and just hoot and holler at ther little zingers and appluad like she actually said something of substance okey-dokey !
Why are you obsessed with the thought that I have some reason to defend Palin?
I'll concede that she may well have had no original thought.
I'll type slowly now, so you can follow me. My point was that you'd be hard pressed to find much difference between Palin and Obama.
Liberals will never admit it, but what we have now in the White House is the dreaded Bush third term. Sorry, if you're an Obama supporter you got suckered by Barack Hussein Bush.
The way to prosperity is through continued heavy borrowing from the Chinese. OK, that sounds like a good plan to me.
"The most powerful man Nevada has ever had in Washington won't be going back to Washington," she (Sue Lowden) said.
Honestly, how will that benefit Nevada?
Because Harry Reid uses his power to benefit himself and those who cater to him. That does not include the good citizens of Nevada...
If any of you tea baggers thinks that Sarah Palin gives a crap about you then you are a fool. Sarah Palin is a quitter. She walked out on her elected office because she knew she could take advantage of the tea bagging fools who would pay here BIG money to show up at their rallies. Sarah Palin will say anything you want to hear just as long as she gets her check in advance and you have bendable straws.
The fools of the tea bag movement love all her one liners that really mean nothing. Get Sarah Palin off script for one minute and you realize she is an idiot. A screwd greedy business woman who puts money before the commitment she made to the state of Alaska, but an idiot when it comes to the issues that you and I face.
Pretty similar to the terribly out of touch Sue Lowden. Anyone that votes for Sue Lowden deserves what the get.
Harry Reid worked to achieve tax cuts for 98% of working Americans.
"How selfish!" says Larry.
I am going to vote for Tarkanian..
The US really needs some states to secede so the radicals have a place to go. I nominate Alaska and Texas. The majority voted this congress and President into office, either they learn to live with it or secede. I REALLY REALLY hope for the latter.
Oh yeah, take your propaganda radio and TV with you. I can just imagine now how relaxing A.M. radio would be without all the hate 24/7. Mmmmmmmm!!!
Let me get this straight. We're going to be gifted with a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also hasn't read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke. NOW WHAT THE HELL CAN GO WRONG? Wake up Voters!
An Independent
95% of Americans got a tax break this year,I know I did. Thank You President Obama
95% of Americans got a little tax break while 15% or so of Americans lost their jobs...
Even trade for Obama and his followers...
"Police estimated the crowd on the legislative mall, between the Capitol building and Legislature, at between 500 and 700 -- a fraction of the 2,000 to 3,000 that showed up last year on tax day..."
All the crazy is making the tea party lose steam...
I hate to see Barry Akbar Obama skate away from the TEA Balers without any of them calling him out for being Indonesia-born and a product of a muslim woman and a Kenyan Marxist academic.
woody, probably the same way they justify paying all that money for Clinton to speak, or campaign on behalf of Obama or Hillary.
edgewise's post from earlier was right on the money.
It seems that every time you turn around lately, either the Republican Party groups or the Tea Party people's groups or even a combination of both of them, they all seem to have something going on every week, either here in Nevada or nationally. And the purpose is to fire up the people and collect money.
And these protest gatherings, contrary to Fox News reports, has dismal numbers that are comprised of well off, elderly, mostly Caucasian, mostly male, all running around carrying signs that hint at racist leanings that they can't stand the idea of an African American serving as President of the United States.
And locally here in Nevada, all these protests all call for beating Senator Reid. But they clearly don't have the slightest clue what they want, who they want to replace him or even what they are looking for in a candidate; other than generic dumb stuff like the Fox News phrase, "We have to break up the evil Obama/Reid/Pelosi cabal/regime." (Hint: Got to put all three together. If you use only one, then it don't make sense. So make sure to slap all three at the same time. Then it's right on the money. I'm pretty sure that is in the Tea Party Propaganda Manual.) All they know is they want Senator Reid to lose. Which is laughable. Really dumb.
I'm so tired of their rhetoric and pretty much ignore their rantings. But that is even hard to do nowadays. Because lunatic fringe stuff like this is saturating the news.
And I suggest the news sites that report news accurately, the best thing to do is just do like I do. Ignore it. Because in the U.S., there are probably roughly about 450 neo-conservative, extreme way out there right wing nut radio/television stations that blather outright lies. The sheer inundation of untruths they spout can't even be kept up with to reveal the hypocrosies and falsehoods of it all to show the utter stupidity of a lot of these shock journalism reports.
It's so crazy lately that a comedian said: The left has went to the moderate center and the right has went to the mental institution. How true that is....
Best to just ignore it all. It serves a purpose to drive them people nuts. They hate to not be listened to. It drives them crazy.
And that's how President Obama is curing that. They just cruise along and tackle the hard things, performing success after success and not acknowledging the tea bagheads.
And this indeed is working. Because they are going absolutely bonkers with anger right now. Because no one in President Obama's administration is paying the least bit of attention to the lunacy out there.
vc - "Get Sarah Palin off script for one minute and you realize she is an idiot."
If you're an Obama supporter you must be a masochist to want to open that door.
Obama's ability to handle himself when the teleprompter goes blank is legendary. "I've campaigned in 57 states. With one left to go - Alaska and Hawaii."
Or how about how about the time he referred to a "corpse-man"?
What about that Kansas tornado that killed 10,000 people?
Then we can talk about Joe Biden if you like.
Real solutions to our problems is not to the right of republicans but to left of democrats.Not only is Obama not a Socialist he's not even a Liberal (in the words of bill Maher). Look who works for him-Geithner and Summers. Look at his "government Takeover"-this attenuated health care plan. If you repeat a lie often enough people often enough people will believe it- the dick armey
Yes, larry. Once again, you've convinced us of the genius of Sarah Palin! You betcha!
I think 70% of Americans polled have said she's unprepared or incapable of being President. But YOU know better, right?
To go along with what ksand99 is saying...
Look at the recent speech in Washington, DC at a Tea Party Express rally Ms. Sara Palin gave.
She keeps spouting the same stuff all the time. She never waivers on her speeches. It's always the same. Because she has to deliver to the Tea Bagheads, and they expect her to.
I do notice she refers to notes on the podium now though. She don't use "The Wasilla Teleprompter" (notes written on her hand) anymore since that has resulted in wide spread media derision of her competency.
Lastly, we all know NOW why Ms. Sara PAYlin left office as Governor of Alaska. They didn't pay enough. It is public record now that, in just nine months time, she earned twelve million dollars.
I repeat...TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS!
This Tea Baghead thing is very, very lucrative.
It's so lucrative and pays so well that Ms. Michelle ("Captain Crazy") Bachmann has bounced off of her popularity and is in that circuit too.
I wonder how much Captain Crazy (this is a term her own staffers (who quit because they couldn't take it anymore) called her) is getting paid?
Barry Akbar Obama. Indonesian. Muslim. Marxist-Leninist. Illegal Alien.
PierreBeauRegard. Nutty. Extreme. Right. Neo. Con. space alien.
Yo! Pay attention. First we have a PRIMARY election. Then we have a GENERAL election.
I do not support Harry Reid one bit, but he has a lock on the Democratic nomination in the primary.
We have to send him packing in NOVEMBER. For now, we have to prevent Rory his kid from winning the Democratic nomination for Governor
He is stumping around so his kid - RoryBOY can win the Democratic nomination for Governor.
Conservatives, liberals and what have you, WE NEED to stop RoryBOY NOW, not in November.
One REID, in any office in Nevada, is one too many. Help me send RoryBOY packing and we can slam dunk Harry Reid in November fast and easy.
As the 'other' Democratic Candidate for Governor, not only will I not support Harry Reid, I can actually fix the financial problems, create jobs, lower taxes and restore the state to prosperity.
So lets start the ball rolling. Stop RoryBOY first.
Do you really want a Reid dynasty? I DO NOT.
Then we can work together to send Harry home to Searchlight to collect rocks.
Vote for a REID-FREE Nevada. Help me send Rory Reid home, NOW.
Fred Conquest
Democratic Candidate for Governor
www.fredconquest.com
Hate government and taxes? Move to Somalia.
like big govt and plenty of taxes, move to Iran. Besides, Somalia, is where Obamas brother lives, In a shack, poor, no money. Living in the same country as one Obama is plenty enough.
you have the same attitude as Obama, you think those that protest against his regime, has no right to be here. Sounds a little to similiar to Saddam Hussein and Iraq. But I guess that is his background, and those are the kinds of people he associates with(excuse me associated).