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Steven Horsford will speak to Nye County Democrats tonight in Pahrump, Thursday, November 17, 6:00 p.m. at:
IAFF Local Union Hall
160 W. Emery, Pahrump, NV
Dinner will begin at 6:00.
Meet the members of the Central Committee. From Left-Right are Jan Bearrs, Chair; Laurayne Murray, Vice-Chair; Tim Murray, Vice-Chair; Deby Depreta, Secretary; Cles Saunders, Treasurer:
When John Ensign, the disgraced Republican Senator, resigned earlier this year, Republicans moved quickly to install Representative Dean Heller in his stead, hoping to give him a jump start for 2012. His competition will be a fellow House member, Representative Shelley Berkley. Party registration favors Ms. Berkley, who hails from Clark County, which is more populated than Mr. Heller’s heavily Republican former district to the north. But Nevada’s ailing economy and its swing-state status combine to make this race a tossup.
[Source: New York Times]
It is mostly a man’s world in the Presidential Campaigns of the Republicans. There is not a single woman manages any of the campaigns.
Ron Paul has an assistant campaign manager who is a female.
Rick Perry’s campaign is run almost entirely by men, with the exception of policy director Dierdre Delisi.
Herman Cain’s campaign has no women in major operational roles.
Michele Bachmann’s campaign staff’s only woman with some clout is her spokeswoman, Alice Stewart.
Newt Gingrich has only a female deputy press secretary.
Rick Santorum has virtually no high-ranking women outside of communications roles on his national campaign staff.
Jon Huntsman had a woman campaign manager until June, when she resigned. His top campaign staffers are now all men.
The exception to the rule is Mitt Romney, who employs a woman deputy campaign manager, senior advisor and communications director.
[Source: Huffington Post]
Watch the video first at: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388134n
Should our elected officials be able to use insider information to pad their own pockets? CBS has an interesting story about elected representatives in Congress that use insider information to increase their personal wealth.
Steve Kroft of CBS 60 Minutes, reports that “members of Congress and their aides have regular access to powerful political intelligence, and many have made well-timed stock market trades in the very industries they regulate. For now, the practice is perfectly legal, but some say it’s time for the law to change.”
The next national election is now less than a year away and congressmen and senators are expending much of their time and their energy raising the millions of dollars in campaign funds they’ll need just to hold onto a job that pays $174,000 a year.
And we think they are in Congress to look out for the interests of the United States and you and me, their constituents.
Few of them are doing it for the salary and all of them will say they are doing it to serve the public. But there are other benefits: Power, prestige, and the opportunity to become a Washington insider with access to information and connections that no one else has, in an environment of privilege where rules that govern the rest of the country, don’t always apply to them.
Most former congressmen and senators manage to leave Washington – if they ever leave Washington – with more money in their pockets than they had when they arrived, and as you are about to see, the biggest challenge is often avoiding temptation.
Nevada (Republican} Rep Mark Amodei says he might be open to bringing at least some nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. Amodei says he doesn’t want a nuclear waste dump but has hinted that thinking of a way to move forward and keep federal money flowing to the project through things like reprocessing research shouldn’t be discounted. We talk with Mark Amodei about his views on Yucca Mountain and if he will advocate to move the project forward.
Lisa Bailey commented to that, this:
I can’t believe we have a representative from our NV congressional delegation re-opening the issue of Yucca Mountain. The DOE’s own environmental impact statement estimates that “with 108,000 shipments we can expect between 50 and 300 accidents.” We generate no nuclear waste, so why should we be processing or storing other state’s nuclear waste, endangering hundreds of thousands of people along the transportation line. There is no model for a storage facility anywhere in the world, and there is a reason why. There is also a reason why reactor sites are near lots and lots of water. To consider even reprocessing here where we have no water (hello! It’s a desert here) is mind boggling, not to mention the risks of radioactive waste. There are traces of plutonium in the sediment of ground water in Beatty, Nevada, only 27 miles from Yucca. We forged ahead with above-ground nuclear tests and the land is still suffering from that legacy. Nevada is not a wasteland.
Ms. Bailey raised some valid points.
[Source: KNPR]
Sen. Dean Heller—What are the odds he will win election to the seat in his own right?
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Eric Ostermeier’s analysis of the 188 appointed senators (before Heller) since the 17th Amendment introduced direct Senate elections “finds that just 62 were elected to the office for the seat’s subsequent special or general election, or just 33 percent of all appointees.”
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History aside, Heller “is anything but a safe incumbent,” considering he also faces an unrestful electorate and an energetic opponent in Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley, the analyst wrote.
[Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal]
The GOPs effort to bust collective bargaining unions didn’t go over well in Ohio.
The defeat of Ohio’s Issue 2 last Tuesday spells political trouble for Republican Gov. John Kasich and possibly for the Republican presidential ticket in Ohio in 2012, according to a new poll sponsored by the AFL-CIO.
In the Issue 2 referendum, Ohio voters decisively overturned Senate Bill 5, a controversial law championed by Kasich that restricted collective bargaining rights for the state’s public employees.
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Not surprisingly, given the 61 to 39 percent margin of defeat, the survey shows broad-based opposition to Issue 2. It was rejected overwhelmingly among union members (86 to 14 percent) and public employee households (73 to 27 percent), but also lost by narrower margins among non-union members (52 to 48 percent) and households without a public employee (57 to 43 percent).
[Source: Huffington Post]
Some of Rick Perry must have rubbed off onto Herman Cain.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain struggled to answer a question about U.S. foreign policy toward Libya in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board Monday.
“Okay, Libya,” said Cain, glancing up. “President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi. Just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing before I say, ‘Yes, I agreed. No, I didn’t agree,’” said Cain.
“I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason,” Cain started, before cutting himself off. “Nope, that’s a different one.” Cain shifted in his chair, adjusted his jacket and looked up again.
“I got all this stuff twirling around in my head,” he added.
Cain repeated he would have “assessed the [Libyan] opposition differently,” speaking in generalities about his problem-solving approach.
Cain raised broader questions about the nature of the Libyan opposition. “It’s not a clear yes-no answer, because all of those things I think should have been assessed, that’s what I’m saying.”
“And you don’t think they were assessed?” asked an editorial board member.
“I don’t know that they were or were not assessed. I didn’t see reports of that assessment,” Cain responded.
Cain has made multiple foreign policy gaffes in his campaign. Earlier this month, he warned China was “trying to develop a nuclear capability,” though the country tested a nuclear device in October 1964. When asked whether he was prepared to answer “gotcha” questions in October, he said, “When they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, ‘I don’t know. Do you know?’” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai later joked about the exchange.
In the editorial board interview, Cain also expressed support for collective bargaining rights and suggested that Ohio Gov. John Kasich went too far in trying to strip public employees of those rights.
This stumble is just the latest to roil the GOP primary. At a debate last week, Cain’s rival, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was unable to remember the three federal agencies he would cut as president. After naming two, Perry took nearly a minute to regain his bearings before conceding, “I can’t think of the third one. I can’t. Sorry. Oops.” He later clarified that he had been thinking of the Department of Energy.
[Source: Huffington Post]
Maybe Herman Cain is departing from the GOP line of busting unions. Probably thinks it will help people overlook or forget the sexual harassment of women.
In a move that will undoubtedly puzzle if not enrage conservative voters, Herman Cain said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Monday that he supported the rights of public workers to collectively bargain. He also said he believed that Ohio Gov. John Kasich went too far when he tried to strip those rights with Senate Bill 5.
On the issue of collective bargaining, Cain said he supported the right of public employees to bargain collectively.
“But not collective hijacking. What I mean by that, if they have gotten so much for so many years and it’s going to bankrupt the state, I don’t think that’s good. It appears that in some instances, they really don’t care.”
Asked about last week’s vote in Ohio, in which the state’s new collective bargaining law was rejected by voters, Cain said that “maybe they tried to get too much and as a result it failed.”
Cain’s answer means he is more progressive on the issue than Mitt Romney, who notably endorsed Kasich’s SB 5, then declined to comment on a campaign to repeal it before finally coming out against that campaign. And while it may make some political sense for Cain to make this case in the course of a general election campaign — Kasich’s polling numbers have plummeted — it will do him no favors in the primary.
Also notable is the fact that Cain gave his response to a Milwaukee-based newspaper, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, like Kasich, is staunchly anti-union and has advanced legislation that curbs collective bargaining rights.
You can watch a video of his interview on the Huffington Post.
[Source: Huffington Post]
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