A Vegas voter posted this on Bob Beers’ blog yesterday:
Disgusted with Dems Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I went to one of the early voting locations today and when I refused the Copening propaganda her supporters thrust at me in the parking lot, I was called a “b*tch” as I walked away. How dare they treat voters with such disrespect.
In this next case, emailed in by my one of my readers, a partisan person was sanctioned:
I voted this morning at the Lake Meade/Tenaya location. Probably the most excitement was a guy from the Obama campaign that had on a yellow T-shirt that said “voting questions – ask me” or something like that. He was sitting along the line of people waiting to vote.
I didn’t think anything of it, until I noticed that all the poll workers had on blue/white/red shirts. About that time, the guy was escorted out of the area. He took off the shirt and then was milling around with the ‘poll observers’. I was ready to grab my cell phone for a picture if anything exciting happened, but nothing did.
I waited about an hour to vote. My hubby was on Channel 3 – they were interviewing people about the early voting process – was it easy, what did we think, etc.
There is not supposed to be any partisan canvassing at the polls. Also, in re: to situation 1 above, here is what item 3 of the Nevada Voters’ Bill of Rights, as outlined in NRS 293.2546, says about voting:
3. Each voter has the right to vote without being intimidated, threatened or coerced.
That first voter should have complained to the poll workers so they could have asked those Copening people to take their handouts and nasty remarks elsewhere.
Tags: Beers, campaigning, canvassing, Copening, early voting, Las Vegas, McCain, Nevada, Obama, partisan, polls, rules, where can I vote in Las Vegas
If you are a District 6 voter, or just interested in looking in on one of Nevada’s hotly contested state senate races, be sure to see this E!! exclusive “mock debate” featuring a Q & A with incumbent Senator Bob Beers and Democrat candidate Allison Copening.
Copening has been widely criticized for refusing to debate Senator Beers after an initial appearance on Face to Face early in the political season. Producer Dana Gentry made no bones about her views on the matter, snarking about ”political candidates who are woefully unprepared for the office to which they aspire” and “even worse…who put their name on the ballot and then disappear, refusing to address the very citizens they hope to represent.
E!! is therefore delighted to be able to present a “mock debate” in which Senator Beers and Ms. Copening will be answering a series of questions pertaining to public policy in Nevada. Both candidates were given identical sets of questions, and both returned their answers to me without seeing their opponent’s responses.
Enjoy ~ and please feel free to contact me with questions or leave your comments below.
Tags: Beers, Copening, debate, Nevada, positions, Senate, state
Well, I don’t relish raining on conservatives’ celebratory parade after Tuesday’s primary victories here in Nevada, but a commitment to fair analysis requires that I do just that.
Though from one point of view conservatives “won” with the ousting of three tax-raising Republican assembly reps, that result has given Democrats hope that they can gain between one and three seats in the Nevada Assembly in November. If that happens, their 27-15 margin will grow, they’ll have a majority, and they’ll end up with the more than 28 seats needed for a supermajority, i.e. the number needed to override a veto by Republican governor Jim Gibbons.
Which in light of the tax-hiking tendencies of Assembly Democrats would be very bad news for Nevadans.
Republican strategists I’ve spoken to seem to think the GOP can hold onto those seats, and I hope they’re right. The man who defeated Marvel, Don Gustavson (District 32), is pretty well known so there’s a fair degree of confidence he can hold down his corner of the fort. People don’t seem quite as sure that Francis Allen’s nemesis, Richard McCarthur (District 4), and the guy who beat Bob “Lite” Beers, Jon Ozark (District 21), can do the same in a year that is shaping up to be very competitive.
With 10 of 21 state Senate seats and all 42 Assembly seats up for grabs here in the Battle Born State, it’s going to be an interesting election night in more ways than one.
Tags: Allen, analysis, assembly, Beers, Blogs of Nevada, conservatives, Gibbons, GOP, Gustavson, majority, Marvel, McCarthur, Ozark, primaries, primary, Republican, results, seats, Senates, strategists, supermajority, tax, tax hikes, Taxation, taxed, Taxes, taxing
A reader emailed and asked why I didn’t say anything about today being Primary Day in Nevada. The short answer is I didn’t think readers outside NV would care and residents here already knew about it. Anyhoo, I just got home a little while ago and am checking the preliminary results online.
Here are a few Fun Clark County Facts while you wait for me to do that. Clark County is NV’s largest county by population (because it contains Las Vegas). County was created in 1908. Total county population was 1.9 million in 2006. We have approximately 327,000 registered Dems, 235,000 registered GOPers, and 136,000 “miscellaneous” (Independents etc.) for a total of about 697,000 registered voters.
OK, enough of that. With 82% of the precincts and all the mail-outs in, we had about 102,000 people vote. See all the results here. No big surprises in the Congressional races. I’m too tired to go through the rest of them one by one, but I will say this:
Glad to see Chad Christensen won in his Assembly race. Glad to see Francis “the Knife” Allen did poorly in hers. Didn’t much care whether Assemblyman Bob Beers won or lost, but know people who are glad.
And am appalled and disgusted that Family Court Judge Del Vecchio got 20,000+ votes. I’ve been sitting on some details I’m privy to re: Del Vecchio thinking it was all best revealed in October, but if That many people are not yet aware of the many, MANY reasons this guy should not only Not be on the bench but should be in prison…I’ll re-think the delay.
Tags: Allen, assembly, august 12, Beers, Blogs of Nevada, Christensen, congressional, Del Vecchio, lost, primaries, primary, results, won
