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All due respect to the citizens of Nevada, but Sharon Angle? Really?

I'm a resident of Arizona whose been happily doing business in NV for a couple decades. AZ's at least as nuts so I'm not pointing fingers at my adoptive state of NV. We have John McCain who had he been born with a swivel up his tail couldn't have spun around faster than he recently has on several issues critical to our country. His prioritization of party over country; of party over his obligation to represent the best interests of his constituents; of saving himself before saving his country has been absolutely depressing. The problem is, we have little in the way of choice.

I'm not doing much of any business in NV right now and that means I'm starving like the other +/- 14% of unemployed Nevadan's, but cutting Sen. Reid loose is as nonsensical as cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Sen. Reid would do well(if re-elected and if his party retains control of the Senate)to step aside as leader and focus on the needs of Nevadan's and the US. Nevada would benefit immensely and I suspect Sen. Reid would prefer his next six years be spent in that capacity anyway.

Wise choice.

As an AZ resident but 20 year business commuter to NV, I find my inside/out - outside/in perspective on both Arizona and Nevada to be a bit different than that of many living/working in one or the other, but not both. That perspective isn't better, just different.

I find as a resident of AZ, but doing the lion's share of my business in NV that I see the constituents of both states under valuing both NV and AZ's congressional and local political contingents for their seniority and the advantages that brings. There is little doubt That Sen. Reid and Commissioner Reid have brought and retained far more jobs and industry opportunities to NV business and citizens than they will ever be recognized for retaining/creating.

NV, now's not the time to be kicking those advantages to the curb. States right next door to you would kill to have those kinds of opportunities. Absent taking those advantages, NV will look silly and short sighted for cutting off it's nose to spite its face.

Well, isn't that special. Candidate Angle welcomes Sheriff Joe and his band of white supremacist and Nazi friends. Bet NV can't wait to have both marching on the capital in favor of immigration reform next session.

Give Google a whirl and see what you find when you search for Sen. Russell Pierce (AZ - Appropriations Committee Chair, and J.T. Ready - prior Republican Precinct Captain). J.T. loves Sen. Pierce and both love Sheriff Joe. Joe sure snuggles up to both in private, but doesn't much like being photographed and video taped with either. Sure are buddies though.

Any developer/builder who's had the pleasure of working with the Clean Water Team in the past couple of years can attest to the CCWSD's adoption of a full employment approach to all things sewage.

As a developer/builder who's worked in government and who's processed not less than 20 moderate/large projects in metro LV and a comparable number in several other western states, I've always been particularly impressed with Clark County and it's personnel. Government can and often does complete work in as cost effective a manner (or even more so) than private industry. Unfortunately, my recent experience with the CCWRD has put a significant dent in that perception.

For what it's worth, if it's so cost effective for the CCWRD to get into the inspection business now (when private industry is willing to do the work below CCWRD cost) then what's to keep the CCWRD from doing so after the private contractor has more profitable options?

Seems the CCWRD is intent on having our public infrastructure process more bull waste than human waste.

All due respect to blondegenes, please take a look at the economic swing at our national debt (from record budget surplus to record budget deficit) from 2000 through 2006 (during the first 6 years of the Bush-43 administration). That's the time the Republican party controlled both houses of Congress and the Office of the Chief Executive. Not a single veto on a single spending measure from Mr. President. Not one. The good Senator from Arizona toed the Republican line during that period as well.

At an earielr point in my life I worked for a Senator (a very good woman who served her country well and just happened to be a registered Republican). It's practically impossible for our elected officials to actually read all the legislation. Fact is, most don't even have enough time to read the legislation they sponsor. Drafting is generally done by aides (like me), industry groups (yep, those would be the ever vigilent and evil obbyists) and governmental/quasi governmental agencies. For candidates and their campaigns to sling mud at one another for voting one way or another on particular bills without also disclosing the poison pills buried within virtually every one is disingenuous and a dis-service to voters, especially voters who vote based upon a candidate's character and principles as opposed to their personal affiliations.

Fact is, about half the people we all know are registered to a different political party than us, are members of a different religion than us, are a different gender than us. Does that make 50% of your friends, neighbors, fellow Americans the enemy? If so, let's start blowing one another up. It would be a lot cheaper than tending to wars thousands of miles from home (especially at $3-$4/gallon for gas...)