Almost three decades after President Ronald Reagan empanelled the Grace Commission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal budget, Gov. Gibbons announced today the creation of a similar commission which both Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston and I have been advocating in Nevada for quite some time.
Named the SAGE Commission - […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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With the last-minute, mysterious withdrawal of anointed Democrat congressional candidate Robert Daskas in the race against incumbent Republican Rep. Jon Porter, the powers-that-be appear to have settled on anointing state Senate Minority Leader Dina “Tax ’Em Til They Bleed” Titus to replace the previously anointed Daskas.
This is probably good news for Porter, as (1) I […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Jeff Greenspan, Ron Paul’s out-of-state political operative who helped engineer last weekend’s fiasco at the Nevada Republican Party convention in Reno is tying himself in knots trying to spin his way out responsibility for the embarrassment he helped engineer.
The story line that the Ron Paul people desperately want to believe - as it fuels the […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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History buffs will recall that a questionable 1964 incident in the Gulf of Tonkin was used by then-President Lyndon Johnson to go to war with North Vietnam. Many surmise that Johnson was looking for an excuse, any excuse, to launch more aggressive military action and used disputed reports that a North Vietnamese patrol boat […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Out-of-state Ron Paul operative/agitator Brian Greenspan shot off the following email this morning to Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden accusing “certain parties” - whom Greenspan conveniently neglects to name - of scuttling a deal he claims to have made to assure that Ron Paul delegates would be included in the Nevada delegation to the […]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Many of the Ron Paul supporters at the Nevada GOP convention in Reno this weekend were like blind bank robbers: You know someone is going to get shot; you just don’t know who…and it’s just as likely they’ll shoot one of their own.
That’s exactly the situation we’re seeing unfold as some of the more rabid […]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Here are some excerpts of posts on a Ron Paul blog showing why so many people think so many of the Ron Paul people are unhinged nutjobs…which some clearly are.
“Those commie Thugs are determined on destroying the Republican party,” writes one wingnut. “GOP Chairman State Senator Bob Beers who is also a McCain THUG […]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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As it turns out, no one challenged Washoe County GOP chieftess Heidi Smith for the position of Nevada Republican National Committeewoman. And as her first act after being elected on Saturday, Smith promptly threw John McCain under the bus.
In an interview with Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon concerning this weekend’s Nevada state GOP convention, […]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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First, I wasn’t there.
As an independent, like Nevada, I opted to take my kids to the UNR softball game yesterday afternoon - where the Wolfpack won a no-hitter against Louisiana Tech - rather than attend the Nevada Republican Party convention up the road. So any observations I have are based on published reports and […]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Boy, can Nevada GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden throw a party. Last night’s Boots and Rhinestones Ball at the Peppermill Casino in Reno was, by every measure, a smashing success. A star-studded who’s-who of Republican leaders, elected officials and grassroots activists turned out to kick off what is expected to be the largest GOP […]
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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