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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Sep. 11, 2010 | 3:29 p.m.
U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle has won the Tea Party Express lottery and will get the national group's endorsement on Tax Day in Washington.
Bryan Shroyer, the political director of Tea Party Express, told the Review-Journal late Wednesday that the group will make the announcement today.
"We've been following this race closely over the last year. And at the end of the day, Sharron Angle is by far the most authentic conservative candidate in the race," he said.
Details about what the endorsement will mean in terms of financial and other support will be announced at the news conference.
Word leaked Wednesday night that the former Reno assemblywoman was flying to the nation's capital to pick up "an important endorsement," according to the Sparks Republican Women's group, which said that was why Angle had to cancel her appearance before the group.
Angle was supposed to appear jointly with the GOP front-runner, Sue Lowden, who showed up at the meeting.
Angle has long been considered the Tea Party darling for her strong conservative anti-tax record in the Legislature. And she has hopped on the Tea Party Express bus every time it has come to Nevada.
Angle, like most of the dozen other Republicans in the race, also attended the Tea Party Express event in Sen. Harry Reid's hometown, Searchlight, on March 27, which attracted up to 10,000 people calling for the Democratic Senate majority leader's defeat.
Angle's campaign didn't return phone calls seeking confirmation of the endorsement.
The endorsement could give Angle's flagging campaign a much-needed boost. She has been falling behind Lowden and GOP opponent Danny Tarkanian in pre-primary polls although those same surveys also show her beating Reid if she makes it to the general election.
Local Tea Party movement leaders weren't consulted about the national endorsement, which could cause hurt feelings in Nevada.
The only other Senate candidate the Tea Party Express members seem to have vetted closely is John Chachas, an investment banker from Ely who returned to Nevada to run for the Senate.
Contact reporter Laura Myers at lmyers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2919.
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Floyd R. Turbo, the prototypical teabagger:
Floyd R. Turbo was a recurring comedic character on The Tonight Show, portrayed by host Johnny Carson from 1977 until his departure from the program in 1992.
Floyd R. Turbo was a middle-aged "everyman," a politically conservative type who taped editorial messages for television. In the days before public access cable, ordinary citizens were alloted time on local television to air their views, usually in opposition to another's previously stated views, and at late or odd hours. Billed as "Mr. Silent Majority" (from a phrase used by President Richard Nixon) and based on characters Carson encountered in his northeast Nebraska childhood), Turbo dressed in a plaid hunting jacket and hat, and stood nervously in front of a TV camera as he delivered his opinions on gun control, war, women's liberation, and hunting.
Carson once told Rolling Stone reporter Timothy White, "He's (Turbo) the epitome of the redneck ignoramus. I find the things (characteristics) each week when I go out to do...his gestures at the wrong time, his not knowing where he's supposed to be, his feeble attempts at humor, his talks about things he doesn't quite understand."
Example commentary
Nuclear energy
"And what's all this fuss about plutonium: how can something named after a Disney character be dangerous? So what if an atomic plant blows up? The people who say that, they are afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die because all my life I have lived by the Good Book, the American Legion magazine. They say atomic radiation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick, but we don't stop building them. Remember being an American means being powerful, proud and pushy, and in conclusion, let me finish by ending...Thank you."
Anyone know how many jobs the darling of the far right has ever "created" (and no fair counting the jobs she has held with the government for the last 20 years either)
Anyone know how much in taxes the 'conservative" hero has "eaten" since she has been employed by the big bad gov'ment?
Ok, ok, I know that's unfair, I mean, you can't exactly expect that a person who has been sucking at the taxpayers teat for the last 20 years (along with her husband) can be blamed for sucking at the taxpayer teat for the last 20 years, I mean, "principles" that's for all those other "non-conservatives" in the world right?
All hail sen. hair, and the tea party.
Doesn't anybody here in the valley find it troubling that this administration will give a terrorist a forum (trial) to rail on this country as long as they want but, banking CEO'S and Corporate CEO's can't because they might embarrass the administration about how much this health care scam is going to cost their companies or how the stimulus is a boon toggle. Just look at Waxman. He was going throttle the CEO's from UPS, Catepiller, and others until he found out that he was going down a dangerous road.
This has convinced me to vote for Angle. I have a bad feeling that if Sue Lowden was Senator in 2008 she would voted for TARP and all the bailouts. I also dont care for the fact that Lowden has contributed to Reid in the past. I want a Senator who strongly disagress with liberalism/socialism and everything the Democrat party stands for.
That being said I will vote for any Republican including Sue Lowden against Harry Reid in the general election. But for now I'm behind Sue Angle...the real conservative.
Ask Ashjian who paid for him to get out of his recent trouble with check writing? Ask him if that person is known as Mr. Cleanface.
It's funny how the Left keeps portraying the tea party as a bunch of nuts. This is the same Left that spent the last year blaming Bush for everything. You people are the loons, you can never properly assess the political landscape.
Your hero, Barack Hussein Obama is a one term wonder who couldn't manage a Popeye's let alone the country. The world sees this now and soon enough, the White House will understand that his policies are out of step with most of America. Not just the fringe right or left.
But you people keep going on and on about the tea party while you suffer defeat after defeat.