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By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 | 1:10 p.m.
Sharron Angle speaks during a Senate candidate forum for Angle and Sen. Harry Reid on Sept. 23 at Faith Lutheran High School.
Sun Coverage
Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has for months campaigned proudly on a bill she claims to have sponsored as an assemblywoman that would have eliminated Nevada’s insurance coverage mandates. The requirements drive up the cost of health insurance for everyone, she says.
In a candidate debate, before a newspaper editorial board and on her website, Angle has touted the bill to repeal mandates.
“If you go to my website, you’ll see my record,” Angle said at a Republican primary debate. “I introduced three bills. One would have taken off all of the mandates on insurance. That’s one of the solutions. We have to have a senator who will go and introduce something like that that says we don’t have mandated coverages on insurance.”
Angle’s position casts her not merely as a conservative, but one with a free-market alternative to the Democrats’ health care reform bill, which her opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, played a key role in passing this year.
However, there is a wide disparity between Angle’s rhetoric and her record.
An exhaustive search of Angle’s record as a four-term state legislator turns up no legislation to repeal the dozens of state mandates requiring insurers to cover such things as mammograms, osteoporosis and autism and several experimental cancer treatments.
Yet during her time in the Legislature, Angle proposed no fewer than five laws that would have required insurance companies to cover specific conditions, undermining her persona as an ideologically pure conservative who relentlessly pursues limited government policies.
She co-sponsored a bill to require insurance companies cover mammograms and another bill, which she later voted against, to cover osteoporosis treatment. She co-sponsored legislation that would have required an insurance company to continue covering the treatment of a patient if the company’s contract with the provider was canceled before the treatment was completed.
She was primary sponsor of legislation that would have required insurance companies to cover not only the adult children of policyholders, but their parents too if their incomes were below the federal poverty limit.
Angle’s campaign largely ignored multiple requests for comment on her contradictory positions on insurance mandates. The campaign’s only response was to point the finger at Reid, who has used Angle’s erroneous claims in an attack ad.
“Reid’s campaign made a false ad, they have no evidence of the bill they reference,” spokesman Jarrod Agen said in an e-mail. “Obviously, they are lying again.”
Indeed, Angle’s record does undermine Reid’s latest television ad, which accuses her of “trying to repeal the law that requires insurance companies to cover mammograms.” Reid’s campaign based the ad on Angle’s repeated public comments about sponsoring legislation to repeal mandates.
When asked by the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s editorial board about her rational for voting against mandates for mammograms and colonoscopies, Angle again touted her phantom legislation.
“Remember that one of the things that we’ve always said would be a good health care cost reform is to eliminate mandated coverages,” Angle said. “That was one of the things that I even had a bill to remove those mandates here in the state.”
According to her actual record, Angle co-sponsored and voted for Assembly Bill 163 in the 1999 legislative session that imposed the mandate. That same session, she co-sponsored but voted against Assembly Bill 162, which mandated coverage of osteoporosis.
Angle’s campaign has engaged Reid on health care, viewing the recently passed federal legislation as a weakness for the incumbent. Polls show voters are strongly opposed to the Democrats’ health care law, which Reid authored and maneuvered through the Senate.
Angle has criticized the legislation, which she and other conservatives refer to derisively as “Obamacare,” as an example of government overstepping its bounds.
Yet Angle’s 2001 effort to provide health insurance to low-income people would have gone a step further than the Democrats’ new health care law by requiring the coverage of adult children up to the age of 30. That bill, which also would have allowed chambers of commerce to provide health insurance, never received a hearing.
In 2003, she co-sponsored a bill that would have prohibited insurance companies from refusing to pay for treatment that it already authorized, also a key part of the Democrats’ health care legislation.
“When you look at Sharron Angle’s actions they’re not only very different from what she said she sponsored, but are very much in line with key parts of Obamacare,” said Eric Herzik, a political scientist at UNR.
How is anyone to know what crazy ANgle really stands for? She says one thing on video and boldfaced denies it. Then her voting record implies something else. There is NO conviction in this candidate. Her ideology seems to be simply what suits her that day!
In the end, Nevadans will never elect such an obviously demented candidate!
She's a "Manchurian Candidate" out to destroy Nevada and America!
From Delwares News Journal: ... But while she has lowered her profile to a local level, her campaign donors to date are mainly outside Delaware, according to federal campaign reports."We are being manipulated by people outside of this state. This isn't about Delaware anymore," said Mell, a Castle supporter. "We're the platform. We're the stage. We've been sucked up into a national fight and all we are at the end of the day is potential collateral damage." ...Ms. Chriatine O'Donnell's campaign.
People of the Great State of Nevada can you see the parrallel...we must not let this happen to us.
I'am going to the John Stewart's 'Rally To Restore Sanity', because come November 3rd after Senator Reid is reelected, this is the path we will have to take.
@ghp2006 "ANYONE with the least amount of intelligence can CLEARLY see that all of Dirt Harry's attack ads have taken Angle out of context."
Yep, videos of Angle speaking are obviously out of context. So, yes, the people with the least amount of intelligence will obviously be voting for Angle. The rest of us will vote for Reid.
"I actually voted for the mandates before I voted against them."
Guess she'll have to go on talk radio to clarify her double talk ...yo Bill, Heidi, Alan...time to prop-up your losing candidate again.
The teabag republicans probably won't get 50 let alone 60, which is what it takes in the Senate, and they already said they won't end health coverage for children with pre-existing conditions, etc.
If government insurance is bad, why don't the Angle's give up theirs??
"Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."..quote Ms. Angle at a Mesquite Navada rally last Wendnesday.
Ms. Damon, would you please be so kind as to inform Ms. Angle that there is no city of Frankford, Texas.
By 1890 the town had a population of eighty-three...in 1904 the Frankford post office closed and in 1907 it's Lodge Hall moved to Addison. The City of Dallas annexed the area in 1975.
Another poor job of fear mongering...I truly hope she is not paying her handlers for what they are worth, because most banks won't cash that check .01 cent.
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I actually started laughing, when it was proposed that health care be required...under penalty of an exorbitant, ridiculous, violation fee.
My partner and I were insurance brokers in San Diego, when the insurance companies got the law passed to make car insurance, a legal requirement...here in the land of the "free."
My partner, Orvalle just shook his head and mumbled, "There goes the neighborhood. What a coup!"
Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum / Republican, Democrat, / privatized insurance, government insurance...long-term, the money will float into the same pockets.
Democracy was founded on the fuzzy concept of freedom (while slaves toiled in the field. It was later discovered that the slaves were actually "people.")
Democracy was founded on "equality."
Income tax was supposed to redistribute the wealth.
Once an "elite class" is established, there IS no fuzzy freedom, real distribution of the wealth or "equality."
At least with the Commies and Nazi regime, you could clearly identify the enemy.
Now...we have the right to VOTE for our masters.
That's funny...well, kinda.
Hey bobby ask yourself this, "Do all politicians tell the truth?" I do not believe any of them and that includes reid, his spawn, pelosi and obama. But I will vote for who is not going to do the most damage to the country and state. It sure as hell will not be reid, reid, pelosi, titus, berkley or obama. They have destroyed a lot that has to be restored......
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I can't wait to vote for Sharron Angle as soon as early voting starts. If you can't vote for Sharron Angle then vote against Harry Reid. You have seen high profile people in Las Vegas endorsing Harry Reid so they can get special favors. He could not even get Nevada a train line to LA.
Reid like all the others has turned a blind eye to taxpayers in subsidizing millions of illegal aliens. His own state of Nevada as with California is overwhelmed with illegal aliens and the taxpayers have grave concerns for their sinking economies. We need representation of new Governors, Mayors and elected officials, who are opposed to any kind of Amnesty; the Dream act a subtle description of a path to citizenship.
Sharron Angle for all her clumsy swipes at issues, can at least be shaped by public opinion. Sen. Harry Reid on the other hand needs to be moved out of his office in November. He will bankrupt the country, if returned to power as he will keep pushing for illegal aliens--AMNESTY. Call up your Senator or Congressman at 202-224-3121. Remember if we don't speak up for ourselves--NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE. Lastly, keep a intelligent eye on the polling stations as illegal immigrants who have given us the finger on our immigration laws, will think nothing of violating our sovereign citizen's rights in fraudulent voting, especially with absentee ballots in states with slipshod laws
Voters you need to realize that Harry Reid is picking every issue that he feels Angle is against, when in actuality, its Reid who bad legislation and voting record is costing tax payers and are a failure. Harry Reid is using a deceptive campaign, his latest, using Angle's husband who is retired from the BLM, and receiving a pension and health benefits. Angle's husband worked 37 years for BLM, he deserves it, just like Harry Reid who will have 30 years in the senate, is he saying he is not going to accept his retirements benefits as a 30 years senator?? Harry Reid is just piecing together tape of Angle from many her time in the assembly, its clear that have of Reid's campaign ads, are dubbed and put together from various tapes and speeches of Angle. Let get the record straight, Reid has been in the senate for 24 years, Nevada has the highest unemployment, foreclosure, ranked near the last in education and he has a problem with Angle. Angle did vote for Obamacare, which will raise health insurance premiums. Angle didn't vote for the $780 billion stimulus that has gone to union workers. Angle didn't vote for foreclosure aid, which 50 percent of the participants have now dropped out of the program. Angle didn't vote to cut Medicare $400 million to pay for Obamacare. Angle didn't drain Social Security, like Reid did, SOCIAL SECURITY is not taking in less money than it is paying out for benefits, this is the first time this has happened in 75 years of the program. It Reid that is raising the National debt to $14 trillion, and has failed to even get the recession under control, and get unemployment to a manageable level. Reid sat there and watched the government spend billion of dollars on Yucca Mountain, knowing that it would never be used. WHo do you think is going to pay for this out of control spending, right, the tax payer. We need Angle this November just to vote to keep the BUSH tax cuts intact. We cannot afford not to keep all the BUSH tax cuts. The BUSH tax cuts include more than just income. VOTE for control spending, and the BUSH tax cut, vote for Angle. Titus herself is running a deceptive campaign, she is associating Joe HECK with Angle, whats wrong with control government spending and keeping the BUSH tax cuts during a down economy. VOTE for HECK is a vote for the BUSH tax cuts.
I find it hard to believe that she was even voted into State office. Can you imagine the damage she would do in a federal position?
Crazy Sharron Angle's running on a record that doesn't exist? Do we need any more proof that she is completely divorced from reality?
She claims to hate insurance mandates yet sponsors and co-sponsors bill to enforce them?
Her supporters calling Reid a liar, when it's evidenced that she's been declaring she did things she never proposed? Hypocrites.
How could anyone with working brain cells actually consider voting for Reid? I mean...seriously?
#1 in foreclosures
#1 in unemployment
#49 in federal funds received (some clout being the Majority Leader huh?)
the guy doesn't even live in Nevada.
A horse voted in to his office would be an improvement.
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My five-year-old granddaughter is better qualified to be a US Senator than Sharron Angle. At least when my granddaughter tells a lie, she knows she's lying. Sharron Angle doesn't have a clue, she thinks if she says something happened, even if it didn't, her saying it changes the truth to what she wants it to be.
It's too bad the GOP couldn't have given me a better alternative to Harry. I have never liked Harry, but you have to give me something more than a nut. The Tea Baggers are killing the GOP.
A legend in her own mind.
ANGLE RUNS ON HER RECORD!! What a novel idea! Who-else runs on their record? Certainly not one Harry Reid! I have a question for those who can't see the obvious choice for Senator from Nevada:---Are you paying attention?----Or do you have a ring in your nose?
What's with all the comments about a record that doesn't exist with Sharron Angle? She has a very conservative record! And, conservatism is our only hope for turning-around the socialism movement, led by the king, Reid and Polosi! Wake-up, liberals!
latest real clear politics has the senate at 47-48 in favor of D's with 5 toss-ups. Even if Reid is re-elected (god help us all) there is a good chance he isn't the majority leader or even the minority leader. With the house almost assuredly going to the R's as well we are looking at the real sainity. Like I've said before, neither side is going to convince the other their beliefs are correct; the fundemental differences prevents this.
Just checked Real Clear Politics, and in 4 out of 5 of those toss-up Senate races the Democrat is ahead.
Why should there be mandates on insurance coverage? Minimum requirements, of course, but one-size-fits-all-policies? Makes about as much sense as mandating that everyone who goes to the grocery store has to buy the same amount of bread, milk, eggs or other commodities. Different households have different needs. As a male, I don't need maternity coverage but do need prostate coverage. The opposite may be true for a female. Another thing, let health insurance companies sell across state lines just as casualty companies do. Limiting competition and then weeping bcause there isn't enough is just plain nuts!
Only idiots, morons and fools will vote for
Angle.
SAVE OUR STATE AND COUNTRY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
By liljoe31:
"How could anyone with working brain cells actually consider voting for Reid? I mean...seriously?
#1 in foreclosures
#1 in unemployment"
The Governor's Office - which is about as important on job creation - is held by a republican - Jim (the Love Gov) Gibbons? Glad to see he'll be gone in a couple of months, right liljoe31?
Isn't Navada's other Senate seat - which, according to liljoe31 is important on job creation - held by a republican - John (I'm a "Promise Keeper" and self admitted philanderer) Ensign? (liljoe31 - You are going to campaign vigorously against him, right?)
So, aren't they at least as responsible for this mess?
Voting for the whack-nut-job Sharron Angle would be adding to the problem, not correcting it. She wasn't even State Assembly material, much less a US Senatorial candidate.
With all the problems Nevada has right now, the last thing we need is Sharron Angle and her Tea Partier "Fox World" based flock taking over.
Republicans for Reid. . .
I think it's absolutely hilarious all the comments that try to justify Sharron Angle.
If you ask me, it's a full time job that requires a battalion of spin doctors and handlers.
The funniest one is that Senator Reid always quotes her out of context. I have tried to look for any signs of validity to that. I can't find any. Sharron Angle's words seem to pile up. One on top of the other. And I don't really see anyone misquoting her. Fingers can be pointed all over the place, blame thrown all over Nevada, but the simple truth of the matter is...SHE says this crazy stuff. And SHE believes it.
And then when she gets caught, she relies upon her time honored campaign slogan for this Senate race: "That's not what I said."
The truth of the political matter nowadays is that the Tea Party and the Republican Party are inseparable. Joined at the hip. It's like a marriage made in hell.
And because there is nothing for them to work with, there seems to be a compelling need to jump up and down and scream all the time with lies, keep repeating them, along with rhetoric along party lines. They want to float this idea that I'm supposed to hate Senator Reid. And hate him because he does his job. And because of this blind hatred that has no justification at all, I'm supposed to vote in someone that is a complete nutjob. Makes no sense.
The Republican Party failed us before. They are STILL following that trend. They offered misery, frustration and hopelessness and economic devastation before. They offer the same now.
And if voted in, it will get worse. As I am typing this, their new plan is to hold the entire of America hostage, including the middle class, making EVERYONE suffer...just so the top 2 percent filthy rich in America don't have to pay taxes...and these taxes that will go back to normal levels...can be EASILY afforded by them...taxes that will help get us out of our economic devastation we are in now. They choose to seek failure for the middle class, just to appease the rich. Makes no sense.
I'm for Senator Reid. Because to vote for Sharron Angle would take us to a creepy, dark, scary place.
We need to separate October 31st (Halloween) from November 2nd (Mid Term Election Day). There is a compelling need for a clear division between those two days. And I'm keep them separated. I'm voting for Senator Reid. Not Michael Myers' mother.
If you have a wife, sister, or daughter who is raped and gets pregnant, you can count on Angle to have government force her to have the baby. After all, the female can "make lemonade."
Angle wants less government in our lives?
This woman is a disgrace, only surpassed by Mr. Family Values "Wild John" Ensign.
Ensign and Angle representing Nevada? Wake up Nevada.
Let me guess.
All of you democrats on here "vote for living" don't you?
Yes, you should vote for Harry Reid if -
you support cap & trade where your electricity rates will "necessarily skyrocket".
you don't mind having your great grandkids taxed into oblivion to repay obama's - harry reid endorsed trillions in failed stimulus -
that is if your great grand kids can find work other than fast food joints owned by the Chinese
or maybe they can work for the government in our Hugo Chavez'd health care sytem as death panel members.
What is it about fiscal collapse the democrats find so appealing?
Yes, you should vote for Harry Reid if you believe our energy policy should consist of -
Shutting down oil production every chance we get while we loan money to other countries so they can drill for oil.
Buying nearly useless solar panels from China so they can use our money to build nuclear power plants while we get toxic twirly light bulbs, smart meters, and public service announcement imploring us not to use our power so "Everyone can have some".
So what is Harry Reid's energy policy?
What is with this newfound republican strategy that health care should be "ala carte"?
"I'm ONLY gonna pay for stuff I think I might get!"
I guess it fits right in with their mantra;
I, ME, MINE!
Where does Harry Reid stand on the economy?
When Obama was elected what was the first thing the democrats did? I mean beside nationalize General Motors and Chrysler.
Yes, they tried to ram through Cap & Trade - where they could artificially drive up the cost of energy - and where was that money going to go?
Where they focused on jobs? I mean other than government jobs? No.
What was the second thing they did? Thats right. They spent a year and a half Hugo Chavezing our health care system. Why? Not to provide health care for all and keep costs down - because they are already going up thanks to Obama Care. No it was to create another huge public union bureaucracy. The NHS is Brittians largest employer and voting block. The real goal of ObamaCare is democrats in power - forever.
Where they focused on jobs? Where they ever focused on jobs?
No. They were not.
They just pretend to be becaue they think your stupid. They actually believe you're going to go to the polls in a month and ask for more of the same.
"#49 in federal funds received (some clout being the Majority Leader huh?)"
Technically true. However it is because Gibbons refused to raise the state's share of the Medicaid funding the feds were willing to give. If you factor that in, Nevada jumps to the top third of per-capita funding received.
Once again, people parrot the party line without knowing the facts.
Senator Harry Reid- will he be the Next Mexican Senator from Nevada? you would think that Senator Reid would be conserned for the interest of Citizens on this Country, and State= Senator Reid is helping to change the domographs of this nation, and if he's got his way, the United States will look more like Mexico very soon.
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My neighbor and I were having a discussion about Sharron Angle, which he supports and I oppose. He feels that Ms.Angle is correct that we should not have to pay for mandated things like, Mamograms, Colon cancer screen, Autism and Maternity benefits and numerous other mandates that the Insurance Companies keep raisng their premiums over, after all he does not use them. I feel that if we want to provide these benefits for the taxpayers we have pay the premiums. It he got all upset at me for not agreeing with him. I told him that is like me having to pay school taxes when I do not have any kids in school, I pay them so all the children can go to school and have the chance to get a better education and do not whine about it. To me that is the difference between Democrats and Republicants. The real problem is the greed of the big companies (insurance and banking) and the Republicants trying to shield them from having to paying taxes which enables them to give out those huge bonuses and the half a million dollar weekend junkets to some luxury spa or resort, which is done at the taxpayers expenses one way or the other.
Gotta love the Angledolts who believe voting for someone who can't remember her own record (putting it kindly) or a liar (someone who is desperate enough to win an election that she'll say anything) is better than voting for Harry Reid.
LasVegasRocks-
So you admit Reid is terrible, but I should vote for him anyway because...Ensign and Gibbons are just as bad?
Huh?
Sorry, Angle gets my vote, only because if Nevada really does get suckered into another 6 yrs of harry and becomes the laughing stock of the country (if it hasn't already) I can at least say hey I didnt vote for him. (and yes you can verify your voting record online)
I see the Sun has the Democrat Socialist Cheerleaders here in full force. Sorry guys as much as I would love to jump on the Reid-Pelosi-Obama bandwagon with you guys, I happen to know too many people who have actually lived in countries with oppressive governments, and they can see it coming with these power hungry Dems who currently hold office. Sorry, but I just love freedom a little too much I guess.
Ahhh...I see that the PAID liberal, Democrat slob-bloggers are running full tilt on the Las Vegas Sun.
Beware, consumers - you get what you pay for...and the slandering Democrap comments are nothing more than free ads for the Democrats - only Democratic contributions are funding these idiots...with OUR tax dollars. They steal everything...with crooked laws that harm Americans.
You know that illegal living next door to you? They get FREE EVERYTHING...at your expense. Thank Harry Reid.
You say you want MORE of Harry Reid? Naaahhhh...nobody is that stupid.