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A new Patriot Majority/Public Policy Polling (D) survey of Nevada finds that former state Rep. Sharron Angle leads in the Republican primary for Senate, over establishment candidate and former state Sen. Sue Lowden and former UNLV basketball player Danny Tarkanian. The numbers: Angle 29%, Lowden 26%, Tarkanian 24%, followed by state Rep. Chad Christensen and businessman John Chachas at 5% each. The poll of likely GOP primary voters has a ±3.8% margin of error. A recent Mason-Dixon poll showed Angle surging into second place, trailing Lowden by 30%-25%, with Tarkanian at 22%. Lowden began the primary as the establishment favorite,...

Three days after #busgate broke, this fiery missive from Team Lowden: Harry’s History with the FEC Harry Reid has had Several FEC Complaints Filed Against Him Throughout His Career – and on At Least Two of Them He was Found in Violation by the FEC. GOP Frontrunner Sue Lowden: Harry Reid deploys dirty tricks for a media stunt against me, but he is the candidate who has a history of abusing campaign finance laws. (Las Vegas, NV) — Today, Nevada businesswoman and U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden responded to Harry Reid’s history of FEC investigations and violations. According to the...

On Mother's Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and daughters and at 7:38 p.m. toted a briefcase into his midtown office for the political ritual known as the Sunday press conference. Picking his way through a line of television cameramen, he joked: "It's like football. No holes. Can't get through," then settled into his habitual spot between a lectern and a ratty blue curtain. "The Times Square car bomb should be a wake-up call for the administration," Schumer said into a bouquet of microphones, demanding that President...

Club For Growth Endorses Sharron Angle In Nevada Senate Race 5/19/2010 3:43 PM ET (RTTNews) -  The fiscally conservative Club for Growth announced Wednesday that it is backing former Republican state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle in Nevada's U.S. Senate race. Club President Chris Chocola said, "Sharron Angle is everything a pro-growth, limited-government, economic conservative could ask for, and everything Washington and the country need right now." "She was the undisputed fiscal conservative leader in the Nevada State Assembly, and she has the courage and skill to step into the same role in the U.S. Senate," he added. "Sharron Angle is the true economic...

The “greed” of BP executives led directly to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) charged Monday. Reid linked the oil spill to the mistakes of Wall Street during a floor speech on financial reform… He continued: “Their greed led to 11 horrific and unnecessary deaths. It has harmed an enormous tourism industry, threatened business at countless fisheries and disrupted life for many along the Gulf Coast. As the pollution grows worse, those consequences will only compound.” The Senate head also took a shot at the Bush administration.

Senator Reid says that greed is to blame for the 11 deaths and massive oil spill in the gulf. (see video) I just find it funny (and sad) that this is said just a day after Obama demanded that the finger pointing needed to stop. I guess that did not include them.

<p>STUNNING: Tea Party Backed Republican Jumps 35% in 1 Month!</p> <p>The Washington Examiner reports that "Angle has risen to second place with 25 percent, [Sue] Lowden is first with 30 percent, and [Danny] Tarkanian continues to fade with 22 percent.</p>

That "Chickens for Checkups" ad, which pokes fun at Sue Lowden for saying people can barter with doctors, should wear a union label or maybe a Democratic Party bumper sticker. Most of the $300,000 spent so far on the sharp TV attack comes from U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's biggest backers, who are seeing some success in tearing down his toughest Republican foe and influencing the GOP primary. And those $300,000 in campaign ads calling Sharron Angle the best conservative choice in the U.S. Senate race -- according to the Tea Party movement fighting the political establishment -- should come with...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says "mama grizzles" will punish Washington in November's midterm elections. Palin on Friday told an anti-abortion rights group that women will lead a Republican wave and stop the Democratic agenda. She also criticized President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Palin said female activists - "mama grizzlies," she calls them - will help the party "take this country back."

Sarah Palin started off her keynote speech at at this morning's Susan B. Anthony List "Celebration of Life" breakfast in downtown Washington D.C. with a defense of her endorsement of Republican California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. Palin justified picking Fiorina over the other Republicans in the primary race by remarking that "anyone bold enough to proclaim their pro-life stance -- or pro-NRA stance in a deep blue state" like California is "the real deal" when it comes to pro-life credentials.

Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid met today with Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to discuss the need for Bank of America to improve the way they do business in Nevada. As one of the largest mortgage servicers in Nevada, Bank of America has failed to provide adequate help to Nevada homeowners who are struggling to keep their homes. While Reid has been one of the bank’s most vocal critics, he is pleased with the progress that came from the meeting. “I am glad Bank of America has finally agreed to step up and provide this much-needed assistance,”...

Now that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has taken possession of La Jolla Bank, FSB (as of February 19, 2010), there will be a venue (jurisdiction) change in the Tarkanian foreclosure case from Superior Court in San Diego County – where the agreements in question were originally entered – to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. The Notice of Removal was filed by the FDIC on May 6, 2010. A quick refresher on the case: Danny Tarkanian, along with a number of family members and associates, was/is a guarantor on promissory notes associated with two Las Vegas properties,...

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - One political hopeful is taking sides and pointing fingers saying while Senator Reid is quick to call up banks on behalf of MGM-Mirage, when small businesses are in trouble, he's pretty quiet. Several sub-contractors are teaming up with Perini Building Company in a lawsuit stating MGM-Mirage still owes them close to $500 million for their work. "Their families, their children, their business are at stake," says Sue Lowden in a press conference on the steps of the Lloyd George Federal Building. Several politicians hailed it's completion as monumental to bringing more jobs to Las Vegas,...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid placed a phone call late last week to Florida’s newly independent Senate candidate, Gov. Charlie Crist, and some Crist allies are taking it as a sign of cooperation to come. According to people familiar with the call, the Nevada Democrat was just wishing Crist well. But coming as Republicans from Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are railing against Crist for his policy stances and decision to bolt their party’s primary, Reid apparently sees an opening –- and possibly another vote for a Democratic majority leader next year in what...

During the health care debate, many critics charged that companies would find it's cheaper to offload their workers into the government-mandated health care exchanges and pay the required fine. Documents requesed by Congress show that some companies are thinking about doing just that. [M]any large companies are examining a course that was heretofore unthinkable, dumping the health care coverage they provide to their workers in exchange for paying penalty fees to the government. That would dismantle the employer-based system that has reigned since World War II. It would also seem to contradict President Obama's statements that Americans who like their...

“If Republicans are “making love to Wall Street,” as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., puts it, one wonders if there’s a printable description for Reid’s torrid affair with the financial sector.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to stop accepting campaign money from Wall Street firms while the financial reform battle continues in the Senate, his office said on Friday.

If Republicans are "making love to Wall Street," as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., puts it, one wonders if there's a printable description for Reid's torrid affair with the financial sector. Reid's slur was the standard Democratic attack -- that Republicans, by opposing regulations, are whoring for the big banks. It's a dishonest attack, belied by basic facts, but President Obama and other Democrats get away with it. But look between the sheets, and you'll see it's Reid in bed with Wall Street. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Harry-Reid-carrying-Wall-Street_s-love-child-92979784.html#ixzz0nDINZIgN

Reid's campaign team mining plenty of dirt of the GOP front-runner Sue LowdenBy LAURA MYERS Stephens Media Published on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 Digging up dirt on opponents is a tried and true tactic on both sides of the political aisle. And the Nevada Democratic Party and U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's opposition research shop have been working overtime for months to get the goods on Sue Lowden, the GOP front-runner in the race who has lots to pick over as a casino executive who with her husband, Paul, has run several properties. In the latest bid to go after Lowden,...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused Republicans Wednesday of “making love to Wall Street.” Reid charged that Republicans are stalling action on a Wall Street reform bill because “they are having difficulty determining how they’re going to continue making love to Wall Street” by resisting banking regulation. The sweeping Wall Street reform bill had stalled on the Senate floor because of a partisan disagreement over how to handle amendments, though shortly after Reid’s comments, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) announced a breakthrough in negotiations. The deal Dodd struck with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the ranking member on...