MUTH’S TRUTHS

Since I’m the Milton Beryl of political comedy - I’ll steal anybody’s good line - here are some “Quick Hits” (thanks, Steve Sebelius!)…

* Elizabeth Crum, Nevada’s newest and hottest conservative blogger (E!! The True Conservative Story), just made Urban Conservatives “Best Conservative Blogs on the Internet” list. If you’re not reading E!! - you should be.

* The Los Angeles City Council has decided that too many of its citizens are too fat, so they’re banning any new fast-food restaurants from opening in South L.A. Soon the only place you’ll be able to get your hands on a Whopper or Big Mac will be on a street corner from a guy wearing a bulging raincoat. “Psssst. Wanna buy some Extra Crispy?” And some people wonder why I despise government so much?

* In an about-face judicial flip-flop, a California appeals court reversed itself and decided yesterday that parents actually DO have a right to educate their own kids at home, even if they don’t have a mile of education degrees coming out their ying-yangs. A huge victory for home-schoolers.

* Nancy Allf, Nevada Supreme Court candidate and wife to a prominent Democrat campaign consultant, has a commercial running on TV in which she claims to have tried a case before the Supreme Court. However, on Face-to-Face this week, host Jon Ralston called her on the claim and the former head of Planned Parenthood in Southern Nevada had to admit that she never tried any case before the Supreme Court. So what we have here is someone who didn’t tell the truth wanting to sit on the state’s highest bench where everyone coming before her will be required to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Yeah, that makes sense.

* Speaking of Allf, and alert News & Views reader points out that the former head of Planned Parenthood, her law firm and her client were fined more than $50,000 for making statements in court that “are lacking any plausible legal or factual basis, are undoubtedly unmeritorious, do not abide by common sense, have been brought in bad faith, and have resulted in unreasonable, unnecessary and vexatious increases in litigation and other costs to the parties, together with a multiplicity of proceedings.” Don’t take my word for it, read all about it HERE

* Assemblywoman Francis Allen (R-Bates Motel), who stabbed her newlywed husband in the arm with a steak knife during a marital spat a few weeks ago, was let off the hook after her husband purgered himself and recanted his story on the witness stand at her trial. And for this act of undying love, the poor slob gets thrown under the bus in a campaign mailer last week in which Allen tells voters, “I have decided to file for divorce because of my husband’s recent unstable, even volatile, behavior.” The really sad thing is, I’ve been told that the mailer is how hubby found out his soon-to-be ex-wife was divorcing him. If the voters of “Slasher’s” district re-elect her in Tuesday’s primary, they ought to be horse-whipped.

* Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio’s campaign gurus are warmly embracing phone calls and mailers from the teachers union in his GOP primary race against former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in politics this year. In many years, really.  You’re running with a moderately conservative voting record against a clearly more conservative challenger in a Republican primary and you EMBRACE the teachers union which is pushing for a tax hike this year? If Raggio loses on Tuesday - or even wins by less than a landslide - his paid consultants ought to be horse-whipped, and then drawn-and-quartered.

* Clark County Commission candidate Bruce Woodbury, banned from re-election by a recent Supreme Court term limits ruling, might actually still win on Tuesday thanks to an organized campaign and low voter turnout. If so, the mess and disorganization we witnessed at the state GOP level thanks to Mike Weber & the Paultards (hey, nice name for a 60s band) will be nothing compared to the potential bloodletting in the Clark County GOP over naming a candidate to replace Woodbury on the general election ballot.

Posted on August 9th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada