More Hate from Clear Channel; Let them know we're watching

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Tuesday July 20, 2004 · 12:33 PM PDT

2004/07/20 · 12:33

Less than a week after Clear Channel refused to accept an anti-war billboard depicting a bomb because it contained "political content," that was not "suitable" for the "location" of Times Square [!!!], they just recently did allow a hateful billboard depicting Mexican immigration as a red menace infiltrating the United States by the white supremacist National Alliance in the midst of a predominantly Latino neighborhood in downtown Las Vegas. Read More

GOP Hate activists get Nader on Nevada Ballot

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Monday July 12, 2004 · 9:23 AM PDT

2004/07/12 · 09:23

Last week we learned that Ralph Nader's campaign was getting help on its petitions in NV from an "independet" who offered (in violation of federal law) to sell the petitions to the Dems to keep Ralph off the ballot (the state Dems rightly refused and referred the matter to the state AG, who is investigating).

Today, its reported by the Review-Journal that the leader of the petition drive is Steve Wark, whose consulting firm raised funds from county GOP chairs for the petition drive. He has also been fundraising for GOP Senate candidate Richard Ziser who is also pushed the Nevada "Protection of Marriage Initiative".

This is truly sick and demented, and I now regret all those years of donations to Public Citizen.

Why is Ralph accepting help from these cretins? Why won't he publicly disavow their support?

M-D poll: Bush leads in NV

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Sunday March 21, 2004 · 12:57 PM PST

2004/03/21 · 12:57

Further evidence that Bush's ad attacks and Kerry's lack of a response are reshaping the race against us in a new Mason-Dixon poll of Nevada. Poll internals are not online but topline is reported in the RJ, showing Bush with a 49-38 lead (most recent statewide poll was by SUSA 2 weeks ago and though it showed a dead heat, is not valid for comparison). Signifiantly, Kerry's pos/neg impression are even, 39-39.

Get off the damn slopes, Senator.

Senate (NV): Final potential opponent for Reid is out

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Friday February 27, 2004 · 2:19 PM PST

2004/02/27 · 14:19

NV Secy of State Dean Heller is not running against Reid, leaving only an anti-gay crackpot who has no GOP backing as Reid's opponent. Significantly, Reid reportedly has at least $3m in the bank, which is an awful lot of money in a relatively inexpensive media state. This could be a help for the Dem nominee in the state, for the NV-3 congressional race if its contested, and for other Dem Senate candidates Reid may support.

It also signals that the state GOP is facing a serious internal rift, between the establishment party which is not (in relative terms) socially and fiscally moderate and good-government oriented (and strongly oriented towards bipartisan cooperation at both the state and federal level, evident in Sen Ensign's tacit support for Reid's re-election) and the antitax wingnuts and theocratic zealots (not the same group) who are a growing minority within the state GOP. (Evident in yesterday's odd event, in wihch an incumbent republican governor speaking to a "tax-payer's group" was ambushed by criticism from conservatives who now see California's budget deficit as a model for NV.)

Its still a strongly antitax, conservative state in many respects but if the state Dems could get their act together...

In the meantime, Reid -- who seemed a year ago at best an underdog for re-election -- is on pretty solid ground.

Equal Rights Amendment

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Thursday February 26, 2004 · 3:36 PM PST

2004/02/26 · 15:36

Why not use this opportunity to re-open a debate that would be a great wedge issue for Democrats and speak to the real issue here: the ERA. After all, if everyone from the President to Kerry to Edwards, is in favor of equal rights why not say so? And if one of our supposed great achievements in Afghanistan and Iraq is to bring equal rights to women, why not to American women?

I sometimes am amazed at how utterly lacking in political imagination the Democrats are.

NV-3 to be a race after all

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Sunday February 22, 2004 · 8:40 PM PST

2004/02/22 · 20:40

Just at the point when it seemed that the GOP would get a free pass in a competitive district, the Democrats suddenly have a strong challenger to Jon Porter in NV-3. Porter is a first-termer who has done next to nothing (other than raise about $1 m) after running a ruthlessly negative campaign in 2002 to a landslide victory (62-38). The district however is evenly divided between Ds and Rs and includes a lot of newer development ringing the Las Vegas valley so lots of first-time voters in the district.

The challenger, set to announce soon (according to local political reporter John Ralston) is Tom Gallagher, a lawyer and former gaming company executive (who worked for, among other companies, Park Place Entertainment owned by the family of Sen John Ensign (R)) who has a personal fortune of at least several million dollars. He's got next to no name recognition and as of yet no issues (other than public statements against the Patriot Act), but in a competitive district and expectations of heavy spending by Harry Reid for re-election and the presidential nominee in this swing state, there is at least hope of a pick-up here.

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