Apple-cheeked Secretary of State
Inside Liberty Watch Today - July 14, 2006
The Honorable Newt Gingrich will be raising money for Congressman Jon Porter on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. If you are interested in attending the luncheon, please call Mary Mai at (702) 304-1414.
$500 dollars gets the lunch with photo, that starts at 11:30am and if you just want the lunch it's a $100 dollars. The lunch starts at 12 noon at the Caesars Palace 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada.
Can we really compare our apple-cheeked Republican Secretary of State with terrorist Osama Bin Laden?
Actually, Dean Heller may be more dangerous.
The most Osama can do, operating from a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan is release some audiotapes and maybe inspire a suicide bomber to kill a few innocent people.
Heller is in charge of Nevada’s elections. As Secretary of State, he has many responsibilities. None of them are more important than his duty as the state’s chief election officer. Fancy web sites and news releases aside, Heller’s approach seems to be that whenever there is a question of eligibility, he’s with the large campaign contributors.
And if there is one thing these boys do NOT want on the ballot, it is initiative petitions that will impede the state from levying taxes on the little guys which Heller claims to be.
If they don’t want something on the ballot — like, say, the TASC initiative — the people’s right to ballot access won’t get much recognition from Heller.
Heller, bowing to the state’s union goons, instead of certifying a ballot question which has almost twice the number of signatures necessary to place it on the ballot has sent it off for a legal opinion..
The argument is over a typographical error but the real argument is over the fact that the union goons and what passes for leadership in this state know damn well that if the Tax and Spending Control amendment gets on the ballot, it will pass. In a fair fight, the people win.
So Heller is going to do everything in his power to make sure the fight is not fair.
Just like he did with the 2004 Axe The Tax petitions.
Heller apparently decides such issues by checking with his campaign contributors instead of the Nevada Revised Statutes. It is outrageous that we have a Chief Election Officer who has to be sued into submission on ballot access issues.
And that sort of grease stain on the democratic process is a very dangerous precedent, indeed. Much worse in the long term than whatever Osama could cook up. But there is a silver lining.
Heller would like to be a Congressman when he grows up.
And he’s running to replace Jim Gibbons. We don’t have to send Special Forces to Northern Nevada’s caves to hunt Heller down. We merely have make sure the Republican Party puts Sharon Angle on the ballot on August 15.
When the Las Vegas Sun writes a complementary story on Heller on its front page, that can only mean one thing. He’s not really a Republican.
Because Pravda doesn’t endorse people like Sharon Angle who can count.
Handing Heller his head in the upcoming primary would be a wonderful way to tell him how much we little people think of his pro-tax big spending inclinations.
Maybe he’ll then try and do the right thing and move to Massachusetts.
Fred Weinberg, Guest Columnist, Publisher Penny Press
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