A Closer Look at Sharron Angle

A closer look at Sharron Angle, the candidate endorsed by the Tea Bag Party.

· Education: She believes the U.S. Department of Education should be eliminated, citing that the local approach had long yielded greater academic results, before the Department of Education was created in 1979. She claims the Department of Education is “unconstitutional” and should not be involved in dictating educational standards from such a distant location as Washington, D.C. She has also claimed, “The best education is the education that is controlled closest to the local level as possible.”[New York Times, June 9, 2010; http://sharronangle.com/issues/]

· United Nations: She believes in United States withdrawal from the United Nations, saying it is a bastion of liberal ideology and “the umpire on fraudulent science such as global warming.”[ Reid, in Fistfight, Could Take More Punches From Climate Bill by Lehmann, Evan (2010-05-26) New York Times.

· Social Policy: She supports the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban same-sex marriage. [http://sharronangle.com/issues/] She believes that single-income households are the best way to raise a family. [Huffington Post] Angle is pro-life, and supports a ban on intact dilation and extraction, the procedure known as “partial-birth abortion”.

· Health Care: Angle favors the gradual phasing out of Medicare and Social Security, and moving towards privatization, citing their current insolvency. [New York Times]

· She has voted against water fluoridation of drinking water.[ Louisville Courier Journal] [Denver Post]

· Financial Reform: Angle favors a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve, eliminating the complete Internal Revenue Service code and abolishing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. [Las Vegas Sun] She is opposed to the bailouts of private industry, executive bonuses she considers to be irresponsible, and government stimulus programs.

·Drugs: Angle has stated that she opposes legalizing marijuana and has stated that she feels the same about alcohol. [Washington Post] When her spokesman was asked to clarify Angle’s statement he responded that Angle doesn’t want to bring back Prohibition. “Sharron doesn’t want to make alcohol illegal,” he said, noting that Angle has never introduced legislation along those lines, and even voted against taxes on booze. “Alcohol is a legal substance, and adults can choose to imbibe,” Stacy said. [Nevada News Bureau]

·Global Warming: Angle does not believe in anthropogenic global warming. [New York Times] “I’m a clean-air proponent,” Angle stated. “I don’t, however, buy into the whole man-caused global warming, man-caused climate change mantra of the left. I believe that there’s not sound science to back that up.”

·Energy Policy: As a long-term policy, Angle believes America must expand its own domestic energy supplies. She would legislate to repeal regulations that prohibit offshore drilling, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and development of American-owned petroleum resources. In the Nevada State Legislature, she led efforts to reduce Nevada’s high gas tax, which was the second highest in the nation. She would also have supported the three coal-fired plants in Ely. [ SharronAngle.com] She has long favored Yucca Mountain as a profitable center for reprocessing, not a nuclear landfill and dumping ground. In 2005, she voted for a resolution rejecting Yucca Mountain as a dead-end nuclear dump. [sharronangle.com/issues/]

·Second Amendment/Rights to Form a Militia:  Angle is quoted as saying: “What is a little bit disconcerting and concerning is the inability for sporting goods stores to keep ammunition in stock … That tells me the nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn’t that they are so distrustful of their government? They’re afraid they’ll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways?” and “That’s why I look at this as almost an imperative. If we don’t win at the ballot box, what will be the next step?”[ Reno Gazette Journal] Asked to comment on the issue, Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy said via email: “Sharron Angle does not advocate a revolution. Her goal is to go to Washington with other like-minded elected officials who understand the proper role of the federal government as already defined by our Constitution.”[Las Vegas Review Journal]

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