… where will Sharron Angle stand vis-a-vis the casino industry? She’s already raised the bogeyman of “undue [casino] pressure” — as opposed to “due pressure”? — in her now-scrubbed original Web site, which keeps coming back from the cyber-grave.
The full context of her slam on CityCenter is available, including a wacky parenthetical remark that Nevada needs “real jobs” (i.e., not casino-resort jobs, which Ms. Angle seems to think exist in a finite quantity). Seriously, this notion that adding 10,000 positions at CityCenter cost 10,000 other Strip employees their jobs is Flake City, unsupported by credible evidence.
However, she issues a broad call for deregulation of industry. Uhhhh … would that include the casino industry, ma’am? If so, Ms. Angle just locked up the all-important Black Book voting bloc, although it’s sadly too late for her to collect an endorsement from Lefty Rosenthal. (And she thinks that present-day casino money is icky-poo? Go figure.)
(Platform 1.0 says “Businesses should be liberated from over regulation [sic] and taxation.” [Whoops, there went the Nevada state budget, propped up on a casino-tax crutch. Nice knowin’ ya.] Further down, it adds that Angle “does not oppose casinos and unions” which is mighty big of her, “but wants to avoid the perception, by voters, that these groups might put undue pressure on her …” So a thousand clams from, say, Las Vegas Sands are somehow tainted but the same 1,000 smackeroos from, say, the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada would have been hunky-dory? Yeah, we’re totally clear on that. Keep those backhanded insults coming.)
Oh, and if casino — and union — donations are the only unwelcome ones, that rolls out the welcome mat to the brothel, nightclub and strip-club industries, doesn’t it? That’d be OK by me. They’re all significant corporate citizens here but Ms. Angle’s fellow Southern Baptists might puzzle at the pretzel logic that emerges from her brain. She’s turning into Nevada’s own version of the “Boom goes the dynamite” guy.
P.S.: In no way is this to be construed as an endorsement of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), perhaps the worst Senate Majority Leader of my lifetime (i.e., since the Kennedy administration).
I am just facinated by this lady! I am visiting Vegas in August and hope to pick up some Angle schwag, like t-shirts and stickers. I am just floored that someone who wants to be in the Senate won’t talk to the press. Amazing!
” [Angle’s] now-scrubbed original Web site, which keeps coming back from the cyber-grave.”
– The story in the link mostly refers to the re-do of Reid’s anti-Angle website. I guess this will be more focused on the actual Angle quotes that illustrate her wacky positions, and Reid’s counter-arguments. It should be pretty interesting reading, as Angle keeps providing them with postable ammunition during her infrequent appearances on right-wing talk radio shows. Then the Dems get more ammo to post when Angle’s spokespersons issue “corrections” that attempt to say that what she said wasn’t what she meant… or that “they” twisted her quoted words to mean something different from what she meant to say.
Angle’s site is in constant flux as she tries to backtrack on her previous posted positions in order to appeal to “normal” voters.
– Mike, if you’re a careful shopper, you might want to wait until after the November elections to buy your Angle schwag. It just might be available at 50%-70% off pre-election prices.
– David, this might come down to “the devil you know vs. the [Christian] devil you don’t”. The “Boom…” clip is relevant, but painful; I couldn’t watch the end of it. (It’s sorta like “The Office” show on TV: I can’t stand to watch the show because the office manager is so close to a couple of nincompoops that I had to work for.)
BTW, I notice that in your Endoscopy Center link, “Lakeman’s lawyer, Frederick Santacroce, said his client has been unable to find work since 2008, when the outbreak became public. Lakeman, now living in Columbus, Ga., is supporting himself with Social Security.” He is 63 years old, so I guess he took the “early option” after he ran out of other sources of income, like Unemployment. Since Sharron did/didn’t say she would end Unemployment and would/wouldn’t end Social Security, I wonder how Lakeman would/wouldn’t vote for/against her.
I just ran across this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/sharron-angle-threatens-h_n_638509.html
“Sharron Angle Threatens Harry Reid With Lawsuit In Feud Over Deleted Campaign Website”
& this:
Yesterday Angle wedged her foot in her mouth again. During an appearance on a Las Vegas radio show, she called BP’s $20 billion escrow account for oil spill victims a “slush fund” and chided President Obama for bullying private industry. “Government shouldn’t be doing that to a private company,” she said.
Angle has now posted a clarification on her website. “Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn’t have used the term “slush fund”; that was incorrect,” she writes. “My position is that the creation of this fund to compensate victims was an important first step– BP caused this disaster and they should pay for it. But there are multiple parties at fault here and there should be a thorough investigation. We need to look into the actions, (or inactions) of the Administration and why the regulatory agency in charge of oversight was asleep at the wheel while BP was cutting corners. Every party involved should be held fully accountable.”
Tune in tomorrow, when she says that her thorough investigation shows that Reid caused the leak in order to embarrass BP & all other private sector oil companies so that Obama can nationalize them all and change them into sun-mining Socialist entities…
washington is broken.they couldnt even agree on unemployment extensions-a no brainer.how are we going to get through this recession without common sense middle ground.what choice do we have-the party of no or the party of massive debt.cmon back ross perot-u may be cooky, but you have your country at heart.
Kerr, you must be reading the Review-Journal too much. That last paragraph could have come straight from one of their wackdoodle editorials (minus the irony, of course).
those who support reid beg for further nevada, private sector unemployment, accelerating taxation on *all* taxpayers no matter their income, and a heavier gubmit “boot on your neck”.
i suspect that those who endorse such a political system have enjoyed little if any time in those former communist nirvanas.
David,
No, you can’t blame it on the R-J. It was all me (though I might have been channeling Glenn Beck and/or Rush Limbaugh).