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Steve Marcus / FILE
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, then running for president, is introduced in 2008 by Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, who ran the senator’s campaign in Nevada. Krolicki says McCain is one of the politicians “both in the state and out of the state” encouraging him to challenge Reid.
By J. Patrick Coolican (contact) 
, Cy Ryan (contact)
Published Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 | 3:10 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 | 3:37 p.m.
Sun Coverage
CARSON CITY -- First term Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki says he won't run for the U.S. Senate to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Krolicki, a two-term state treasurer, said he will be seeking a second term as lieutenant governor.
The first-term Republican lieutenant governor had said he was giving the Senate race serious consideration after receiving encouragement from Washington insiders, including Ariz. Sen John McCain.
Republicans in Washington are afraid the current crop of GOP challengers to Reid is second-tier.
The challengers currently include former state Sen. Sue Lowden, former UNLV basketball star Danny Tarkanian and former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle.
Krolicki was once viewed as a tarnished candidate after being indicted on charges of misusing his office funding as state treasurer to run an ad campaign that featured him. But the indictment was dismissed, and grass-roots Republicans rallied around him and accused the prosecutor, Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, of conducting a partisan investigation.
So, I guess that means the Republicans will run one of the Dinky Dozen.
BWA-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha .......
You could run a cave man against harry Reid and win.
Excellent observation gypc...Yes, what was funny that this guy made a big deal about how John McCain, who may lose the Arizona Republican primary to talk-host J D Hayworth, wanted him to run. Who cares? McCain is a loser and certainly not popular in Nevada, didn't Romney beat him??. (That is not name calling, that is just what he did: "lose".)
This leaves the 2 time loser Tarkanian, and Lowden who ripped the Nevada Republican Party apart by treating Ron Paul people like yesterday's garbage.
With Palin's approval ratings tanking, with the teaparty people being exposed for the kooks they are, conservative talk-radio syndicators in bankruptcy, we now have a good match, and Reid will be victorious.
Here is why harry cannot keep the Senate around next week to pass the jobs bill.
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/har...
Today, Sue Lowden announced she will be serving pinot grigio and caviar from her new campaign headquarters: Yucca Mountain.
"With my experience of stepping over the Republican primary voters and bankrupting the state party," she said, "I'm best equipped to claw my way to the nomination."
She continued, "I look forward to boring voters with endless stories about chasing the tiara during my pageant days, and I promise to lie, cheat and steal to the best of my ability... like any Republican is expected to do."
Unable to be reached by phone, Danny Tarkanian's handwritten scrawl arrived taped to a basketball thrown from a late-model minivan. It read, "Does this mean I win? Did Krolicki endorse me? Does he even know who I am? My dad's a coach! I'm totally Senate material!"
Sarah Palin furiously tweeted in response to the news, "WHY R U NOT TAKING ME SRSLY? I AM QUEEN OF TEAPARRY. BOW TO ME AND BUY ME BOOK. NV REPS DUMB." She immediately changed her Facebook status to a red frowny face.
Smart move. Ensign will be like killing puppies.
Gee...'ya think we could have a recession or something in Nevada with two NEW sinators, a new governeor and all new leggies?
Naah...Reid and Gibbons will leave things in a wonderful state of prosperity.
One can only hope that searchlight will be nice enough to let Harry crawl back into his hole from where he came from.
Why does Nevada spawn the worst political bottom feeders in the U.S.?
On Ronald Reagan's last trip to Las Vegas he warned American's how dangerous Harry Reid was, now we know how very right the was! >>> http://www.tark2010.org/reaganslastcampa......
Watch this historic video, then consider supporting Danny Tarkanian, he's running against Harry Reid, he's a family man and a small business owner that believes in limited government, looks like the kind of guy we need in Washington! You can watch a video on the above site about Danny Tarkanian and please consider giving him your support, it's Ronalad Reagans's un-finished business get Reid out of congress!
Sorry about the bad link, here's the correct link>>> http://www.reaganslastcampaign.com/
"You could run a cave man against harry Reid and win."
That is not fair to cave men.
Edgewise---that's some good sh--
tomfranklin - I watched that video and I'm completely convinced. I'm definitely voting for Reagan instead of Reid.
So Reid's plan to torpedo Krolicki's candidacy via the Cortez Masto indictment worked in the long run! Good job Harry!
Harry Reid will easily win this year.
No more republican crooks.
republicans have done enough damage to our
country. It will take many years to fix
their mess.
GIVE THESE RIGHR-WING CROOKS HELL, HARRY.
It might be useful to consider a recent R-J story in which a survey of small businesspeople--those supposedly suffering most from the recession and supposedly most opposed to Barack Obama's efforts to drag this country out of the ditch in which Republicans have put it--a poll not done by the R-J's tame pollster, showed Reid getting a huge majority of their votes. Now, if you are a Republican and natter on about how smart these people are, you might stop to ask what they know and you don't. It's simple: they know that Nevada cannot afford to sacrifice the Senate majority leader for anyone in the Republican field (or anyone else for that matter). Krolicki would have made the GOP field even funnier and sadder than it already is.
By the way, before the accusations of partisanship fly, I also have said for years in class that a small state should not sacrifice anyone in a leadership position, and I said that of John Ensign when he was a rising Republican star instead of a national laughingstock under investigation by the Justice Department.
That's because Krolicki can't beat Reid, and he knows it. Embarassing for National Republicans as now they have to once again pretend they are happy with their 2nd tier candidates.
"By the way, before the accusations of partisanship fly,"
Of course college history professor Green is not a partisan.
A partisan would never say something like this: "If Bush had been a man, he wouldn't have had to get 4000+ soldiers murdered to try to prove his manhood."
Or "I'm still waiting for someone in these forums to admit to having voted for Governor Assaulter. "
or "Unfortunately, the governor gets to decide what a special session does, so the legislature cannot do the duty it should have completed in 2007 and impeach, convict and remove him."
or "I have yet to hear anything other than no out of the Republican party in Washington, D.C., except when it comes to trying to keep the American people from getting what they pay for."
There are dozens and dozens of other similar posts.
Who would ever know that you are not a fair-minded non-partisan college professor?
Green ---a partisan hack cheerleader for the Democrats?.......hmmmm... perhaps?????
I would imagine if if one is a Democratic kool-aid lib taking one of his classes that they would get an automatic A for just drinking the koolaid.
I would imagine that conservatives get the crap beaten up out them and their butts kicked out the door if they offer any truth in his class. They probably get water-boarded with koolaid.
Oh well...that is taxpayer money working in higher ed for ya...in this case it is probably lower ed.
Sgt James F Nance Jr Rock criticizing anyone for being partisan? Hypocrite.
If you had taken a second to comprehend Doctor Green, his point was that he would argue consistently for anyone from Nevada in a leadership position, regardless of party affiliation. That's why he mentioned Ensign.
But you would rather take a single word out-of-context and commence a pitiful pity party.