Much has been made out of my colleague Morris Workman's story in the Mesquite Local News Friday, detailing the visit of Senate candidate Sharron Angle to town.(Full disclosure: Like CityLife and this blog, the Mesquite Local News is owned by Stephens Media LLC, and overseen by CityLife Publisher Geoff
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Posts Tagged ‘Sharron Angle’
Not Sharia, nor Mosaic — let’s just go with American
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
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15 years later, it turns out we can’t just get along
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Editor's note: This column appears in this week's Las Vegas CityLife.A fist fight? At a political forum? At a Lutheran high school?Really?I guess we can't just get along.It's fashionable to say we're living in the most polarized, hyper-partisan time in our history. (Then again, the worst
Tags: Brian Sandoval, Harry Reid, Rory Reid, Sharron Angle
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Let Angle speak!
Friday, September 24th, 2010
I didn't attend Thursday night's exciting (and dangerous, apparently) pseudo-debate between Sharron Angle and the videotaped image of Harry Reid. But from all accounts (Review-Journal, Sun, National Review Online, which has video attached) the crowd was rowdy and rude. People interrupted, laughed at, heckled and applauded to
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Questions for Sharron Angle: Final question
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Although I asked -- for months -- for an interview with U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, I was ultimately spurned by her campaign staff. It's disappointing, to be sure, but probably not surprising. Angle told Carl Cameron
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Wow
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Sharron Angle wants to get rid of insurance coverage for autistic children and pregnant women in general. Let that sink in a second, and if you don't believe me, check out this video distributed by Harry Reid's Senate campaign, apparently shot during the tea party's Searchlight rally earlier
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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Questions for Sharron Angle: Day 3
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
I asked, and asked, and asked, but Sharron Angle refused to sit down with me to answer questions about her campaign, her ideology and her ideas. So I decided to publish just the questions -- and the
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Ronald Reagan comes out against Reid
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Everyone knows Ronald Reagan is the patron saint of the Republican Party, invoked in speeches, rallies and fund-raisers. Every four years, in fact, Republican candidates make a pilgrimage to Reagan's library to cloak themselves in his aura and engage in a little political necrophilia.Forget for a moment that former Democrat-turned-Republican
Tags: Harry Reid, Ronald Reagan, Sharron Angle
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Reid: Senate must get to work getting me re-elected!
Monday, September 13th, 2010
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid returned to Washington, D.C. today with a stirring call to his fellow senators to help him get re-elected back in Nevada, where he remains almost as popular as arthroscopic surgery but not quite as admired as a teeth-cleaning appointment.Reid, who has declined to take any responsibility
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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Somebody hit a nerve
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Harry Reid's latest campaign ad hits Sharron Angle hard for voting against a bill in the state Legislature that would have allowed Nevada police officers to enforce domestic-violence restraining orders issued in other states. Angle and eight other Republicans voted against the bill, saying it would require Nevada officers to
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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Angle campaign evidences sense of humor
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
No, I have not joined Team Angle.But I did get a little gift from the Sharron Angle for Senate campaign today, a token of appreciation that shows a side of the candidate we rarely see: the humorous side.Angle spokeswoman Ciara Matthews today dropped by the windowless compound on the Review-Journal
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In defense of Sharron Angle
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ian Millhiser, writing on the liberal blog Think Progress, accuses Sharron Angle of "...fighting against the Nevada Constitution's requirement that all children have the opportunity to obtain a public education" back in 2003, when then-Assemblywoman Angle voted against a tax package that would have funded schools.But that's not what
Tags: Nevada Legislature, Sharron Angle
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Is it fair to link Brian Sandoval to Sharron Angle?
Monday, August 30th, 2010
That's what Rory Reid did right off the bat in Sunday's debate, a technique that prompted my colleague Jon Ralston to jokingly question whether Reid was engaging in McCarthyite tactics. "Yes," Reid replied, to laughter.But is linking Brian Sandoval to Sharron Angle a stretch, or a slur? Surely Sandoval has
Tags: Brian Sandoval, Harry Reid, Rory Reid, Sharron Angle
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Love story? Ewwwwwww!
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Sharron Angle's new ad ties Harry Reid directly to House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi and President Barack Obama via legislation the three have pushed, as well as pictures of Reid embracing both (not, thankfully, at the same time). It's part of Angle's overall attempt to pin the Democratic agenda on Reid,
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Angle explains ‘domestic enemies’ remark
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Sharron Angle was only saying that some in Congress have failed to follow the Constitution and live up to their oath of office, not that there were traitors within the legislative branch, her campaign explained today.In a 2009 radio interview with Bill Manders, released today by the Harry Reid campaign,
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Spokeswoman: Angle is cool with black
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle does not believe the color black is evil or evokes the devil, says her campaign spokeswoman, Ciara Matthews.In a brief interview today, Matthews repeated the assertion that Angle has no recollection of opposing black jerseys for the Tonopah High School football team in 1992 because
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