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Ten days ago, lieutenant governor hopeful Sue Lowden received a $20,000 infusion for her campaign from the most important Republican donor in Nevada.
Sheldon Adelson and his family gave the money to Lowden a week before the disclosure deadline, partly compensating for her own failure to infuse the campaign with a lot of personal money.
One Lowden corporation put in $5,000, Paul Lowden put in $2,000 and a few other Lowden entities and the candidate gave about $5,000. Hardly significant.
That’s...
Good morning, everyone. Happy Memorial Day, and welcome to this special edition of Morning Flash. Why is it special? Because it’s a holiday, I’m up early, and I say it is. On this day meant for solemnity and remembrance, I look forward to receiving less-than-heartfelt missives from every politician running about how special this day is for them (and their campaigns.). As for the too-short weekend, I have only one question and I refuse to link to the last-minute hit piece: Bedbugs? Really? If...
Slate cards, where parties or groups put out a list of candidates, are nothing new.
But the one below, which hit GOP homes last week and was funded by a Harry Reid pal, is obviously intended to give lieutenant governor candidate Sue Lowden a last-minute boost. Look at that description of her decades of contributing to GOP candidates. I wonder why that is in there.
I wonder if Michael McDonald has been to Waterloo. Or....how many times.
Good morning, everyone. I am not sure what day it is, dear Flashees, as I have been crying and drowning my sorrows in Glenlivet for nearly 24 hours, since I first learned that Reince Priebus had destroyed by dream of GOP 2016. Please excuse any incoherence below – may be more than usual. I still think Nevada could have overcome image problems if the money had been there – you couldn’t spare $100 mil, Sheldon? – although fixing the venue problem might have killed us even if we had the money. The...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: The state role in med pot.
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS FOR PRIMARY ELECTION: 2
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 19
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 166
Good morning, everyone. In which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls an obviously brawny Dana Milbank of The Washington Post a “scrawny” man. Not sure which one was having more fun.
Speaking of Reid, who knew that renaming the Redskins was a...
Good morning, everyone. Check this out from The Washington Post: “After years of intraparty turmoil that cost Republicans key races, voters this year are coalescing around the GOP’s strongest candidates ahead of November’s general election, when control of the Senate during President Obama’s final two years in office will be up for grabs.” The full story is here.
That’s about the Senate primaries across the country Tuesday. But I wonder if we will be writing the same thing on June 10, when GOP...
Good morning, everyone. We had two of the three top sheriff’s contenders on “Ralston Reports” last night – all in all, Joe Lombardo said he would rather be in Laughlin. Ted Moody remains the most comfortable on television, and Larry Burns seemed off his game last night. (Ex-Sheriff and Burns shadow Jerry Keller apparently told my producer later I must have been paid off by the Lombardo campaign for mentioning him so many times (that he wasn’t there!) and playing his ad (and mocking it!). It’s...