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Lowden answers Hutchison ad with small buy using Obamacare attack

After Mark Hutchison went up on the air with a relatively small buy and a gauzy, positive ad, Sue Lowden is putting an ad on the air reiterating her attack on the state senator for voting to enable Obamacare. The ad is a distilled version of a one-minute ad Lowden ran earlier before a non-televised Elko debate in that rural county. It's a FOX buy. I hear inveterate Republican voters watch that station. Here's the ad:  

Hutchison: Talk to the ad!

New PAC watch: Dark money becomes lighter, an IE placeholder and Helen Reddy's voice

A dark money outfit forced to settle with the secretary of state, a vehicle for an independent expenditure war to come and an echo chamber so we can hear them roar: Those are the new PACs registered last week in Nevada. They are: ►Alliance for America's Future, which had to register, because of that settlement with the SOS.

And so it begins: Hutchison goes up on TV

State Sen. Mark Hutchison: Beloved by the most popular elected official in Nevada, fighter against Obamacare, "committed conservative." So says the lieutenant governor hopeful's first ad, now running on cable stations. This was to be expected. Hutchison is unknown, so the simple strategy is: Boost his name ID, define him (really, he is a conservative!), maybe bait Sue Lowden into spending money, then go after her. By the way, I had a forensic lip reader look at the spot, and he tells me this is what is being said between Sandoval and Hutchison:

MY COLUMN: Las Vegas Perspective lacks...perspective

News item: Las Vegas’ unemployment rate is 8.6 percent. The national rate is 6.7 percent. If irrational exuberance has a smell, the Four Seasons Ballroom reeked of it Wednesday morning.

Lowden backs returning to legislative appointment of U.S. senators; Hutchison defends extending expiring taxes

In lengthy interviews with the Douglas County Republican Party, lieutenant governor candidates Sue Lowden and Mark Hutchison answered some amazing questions, including what they would do if the president signed an executive order to "require that all guns should be turned in." I kid you not.

Margin tax foes kick off campaign with scare tactics, unsupported doomsday scenarios

The campaign for the most important item on the Nevada ballot has begun with a mailer to voters from the folks trying to kill what they call the “Margin Tax Initiative.” The piece, which is below, is quite something in what it says and what it doesn’t say. For instance: ►There is no such thing as the “Margin Tax Initiative.” It’s called “The Education Initiative.” I wonder why the foes don’t call it that.

Harry Reid owes his granddaughter an apology

Reid the Elder dismisses gifts controversy at presser; and Reid the Younger defends daughter/Dad

UPDATE, 7PM: Now there is $5,000 more from 2012. Total now $31,000.   And now Reid is playing the aggrieved grandfather. Chutzpah:

John Lee, NLV break social contract with the voters

This is the Sun op-ed I refer to below.