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Dina Titus: ‘I don’t think anyone wants to run against me’
Dina Titus lost her run for the state’s 3rd Congressional District by less than 2,000 votes to Joe Heck.
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 | 2 a.m.
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Ruben Kihuen waves to the crowd during his campaign kickoff celebration at Rancho High School in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Kihuen, who is a state senator, is running for Congress in 2012.
Because of uncertainty surrounding the redrawing of congressional boundaries, former Rep. Dina Titus said she isn’t committing to run in any district yet but also isn’t afraid of any potential primary matchup.
Some fellow Democrats have begun planting flags in the districts drawn this month by court-appointed special masters. But Titus is content to remain a wild card in the Democratic game of musical chairs.
“I’ve been in a primary before. It’s hard when it’s in the family, but whenever there’s an open seat, there could be a primary,” she said.
(She won a brutal campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor against former Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson in 2006, losing in the general election to Republican Jim Gibbons.)
Titus noted that those drawing the districts have shuffled her among the three Southern Nevada districts.
“I don’t think anyone wants to run against me. I’ve got a good record, solid support with the base,” she said.
The special masters released maps after a stalemate between Democrats in the Legislature and Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval prevented a redistricting compromise in this year’s session. District Court Judge Todd Russell will hold a hearing this week on the maps. The Nevada Supreme Court is scheduled to hold hearings next month.
As the maps are now:
• Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, is in the 1st Congressional District, considered a “safe” Democratic seat. With a 43 percent Latino population, it has the highest concentration of a minority population. This is also where Titus lives, and seems the most likely primary for her.
Andres Ramirez, a consultant to Kihuen’s campaign, called the district, “very advantageous to his campaign.”
• State Sens. John Lee and Steven Horsford, both D-North Las Vegas, live in the new 4th Congressional District. Horsford, the Democratic majority leader for the past four years, would be a favorite in a primary against Lee, a conservative Democrat.
• Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas, is campaigning against Rep. Joe Heck, R-Las Vegas, in the 3rd Congressional District.
Titus said the proposed boundaries could shift if the Nevada Supreme Court sends the process back to the Legislature to decide.
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She better hurry, Obama needs all the help he can get to finish destroying the country.
Rep. Dina Titus said she is "to big to fail"
Out with the old...in with the new. The Democratic Party needs fresh new faces...not more of the same.
Hmm, what does your boss Harry think about all this?
Obviously, it is easy enough to get into a debate with the kind of people who hate the president more than they love their country. But I'm curious, Jerry. How long have you lived in southern Nevada?
We, Republicans, like Ms. Taxus.
She loses a lot.
The bonuses she gave her staff after losing the 2010 election must have run out by now.
Many Las Vegans remember Dina Titus helping Las Vegas residents and homeowner in getting the mortgage companies to negotiate. Among other things Dina has experience in Washingtion. Then again, having experience in Washingtion could be a negative in our current political environment.
Go Dina - ok, so kick out all those that hate the President irrationally and bring back the Audacity of Hope!
What a joke! A failed politician, a check collecting government parasite, and a tax and spend Demorat! Dina Taxus, please go away!
So Dina Titus did you help any Nevadans while you were seated on U.S. House Labor Committee that filed with your office or were you able to find any voting irregularities in Nevada after the last election with the gig that senator Reid named you to after your loss in the last election?
Sadly, the answer to both questions is NO. . .
Nevada workers and voters deserve much better, Dina Titus.
Poster girl for what's wrong with politicians.
Dina will fight to protect the integrity of Social Security and Medicare. Anyone know of Any Republicans that will do anything but privatize it for future generations?
Privatizing Social Security and Medicare would protect the integrity of both entitlements without bankrupting them.
Dina Titus is the strongest and most experienced candidate of all named.
She will provide the best representation for Nevadans. The remainder of the trolls on this site posting trash are doing so not on policy basis but on political bias.
The irony? These teabagger Republicans would rather see a continued failed economy than have Democrats in control.
Rest assure - we are working hard to make Nevada Blue. The numbers are there - we just need to get people registered to vote and out to the polls. GOTV!!!
She will provide the best representation for Nevadans. The remainder of the trolls on this site posting trash are doing so not on policy basis but on political bias.
The irony? These teabagger Republicans would rather see a continued failed economy than have Democrats in control.
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You might want to look in the mirror before you accuse others of political bias.
Amazing that Dim-0-Crat Regresses conveniently ignore how Dina Taxes sucked at the govt. nipple for $100,000 per year for "teaching" ONE CLASS.
Then, adding insult to injury to hard working taxpayers, Miss. Dina Taxes took a huge buyout from UNLV to just go away.
As a democrat, please give it up, Titus. I won't support a candidate who lost to Joe Heck. Plus, just who could you defeat in a primary? Horsford? Not likely-- you wouldn't play well in North Las Vegas. Kiuhen? A district that is 43% Hispanic won't vote for you. That leaves District 2 (ha, ha) or 3. As a resident of District 3, I won't support you, and neither will any democrat I've talked to. I don't support failure.
Keep dreaming, Dina.
Titus in your dreams, there are plenty of candidates and everyday citizens that would run against you. We do not need another Obama clone in Washington.
How many times do we have to go around and round with this loser. That drawl is haunting! Just go away already Dina, your constant negativity is annoying.
another professional politician, one who wants to live on out tax dollars, no better than the professional welfare cheats,
Dina, the results are in and the Nays have it!
Zetzman said, "Titus. I won't support a candidate who lost to Joe Heck."
I guess you must have pages and pages of stories documenting what you personally did to help Dina get elected, right?
Sheesh.
Uhave2laff, no, I don't have pages and pages of stories on how I helped get her elected.
But, as a citizen who participates in the political process in every single election, I helped her in the most important way possible: I voted for her. All I'm saying is that I won't vote for her again.
Sheesh.
Congresswoman Titus barely lost her election precisely because the Democrats CAVED on their true values and removed the popular "public option" from the health care table. Democrats stayed home in droves because their leaders at the top behaved like Republicans! Keeping your children on your insurance until they are 26 if they can't get any is a GOOD thing. Not getting dropped from your coverage because you've become sick is a GOOD thing. Making it illegal for insurance companies to turn you down because you have a pre-existing condition is a GOOD thing...and much, much more. The former congresswoman will win this election once she starts speaking loudly in favor of health care, social security and Medicare