Democrat Rep. Shelly Berkley cast a vote undermining the troops in Iraq, as well as the mission overall, last Friday. The GOP response? Silence.
Leading Democrats held a campout on the Capitol grounds last night to promote their call for $20 million in new funding for the homeless. The GOP response? None.
The Democrats in the Legislature held a press conference last week to promote their education agenda. The GOP response? Doodley-squat.
Those same Democrats will hold another press conference today to talk about their ethics reform agenda. The GOP response? Probably nothing…again.
And then there’s the Jim & Dawn Gibbons/Warren Trepp “scandal.”
The salient point in this mess seems to be the timing of contributions given to the Gibbons’ campaigns by Mr. Trepp. As Jon Ralston pointed out in his column yesterday, questions have been raised about incendiary emails from a Trepp executive and Mr. Trepp’s wife which appear to have corresponded within days of various campaign contributions.
Fine. Legitimate questions. But where was the Republican Party as this was all breaking loose? Why wasn’t the party rightly pointing out Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid’s similar problems in this regard?
As you’ll recall, though not from a Nevada GOP statement or press release over the last couple of days, Reid “intervened on government matters at least five times in ways helpful to (disgraced lobbyist Jack) Abramoff’s tribal clients, once opposing legislation on the Senate floor and four times sending letters pressing the Bush administration on tribal issues. Reid collected donations around the time of each action.”
Do you think this might be something the Nevada GOP should have gotten out into the Trepp stories over the past several days? Sheesh.
And yet some party leaders still don’t think there needs to be any hurry in getting former state Sen. Sue Lowden into the chairman’s position of the Nevada Republican Party immediately. It can wait until April, can’t it?
In one word: No!
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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