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Updated: Sep. 9, 2010 | 11:15 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Sharron Angle will return to Washington next week, where Republican senators and lobbyists will try to give her Senate campaign a financial shot in the arm.
Angle's last visit to the nation's capital, days after winning the Nevada Republican nomination in June to challenge Sen. Harry Reid, garnered her mixed reviews and little immediate support from political action committees and lobbyists.
But as the race has remained close past Labor Day, Angle is positioning for a more profitable reception on a swing that her campaign said will include events in Philadelphia and New York.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the No. 2 GOP leader, Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, are among the senators expected to be at a Wednesday fundraising reception at the National Republican Senatorial Committee .
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., "will be attending the fundraiser, and he's available to do whatever Angle would like for him to do" while she is in Washington, Ensign spokeswoman Jennifer Cooper said.
While Republican senators such as McConnell, Kyl and NRSC Chairman John Cornyn of Texas already have contributed the maximum $5,000 allowed to Angle, this would be the first visible show of support from the lobbying community, which so far has lined up squarely behind the incumbent.
As of a month ago, Angle had collected just $500 from one lobbyist, while Reid was raking in well over $500,000 and had lobbyists bundling additional contributions from their friends and clients.
But some analysts surmised over the summer that the Republican community along the K Street lobbying corridor probably would open its wallets for Angle after Labor Day if the Nevada race were close. Polls indicate it is close, with Reid holding a slight lead.
Last month, Angle criticized Reid as the "godfather" of lobbyists . Now she is courting the same community.
Despite Angle's outreach to lobbyists, Brian Walsh, NRSC communications director, charged that Nevadans will have little problem identifying which candidate is identified with interest groups.
"In the 20-plus years Harry Reid has been in Washington, he's taken more than $6 million in lobbyist money, and his name has become synonymous with special interests and back-room deals such as the Cornhusker Kickback," Walsh said. "We'll let the voters of Nevada decide which candidate in this race is on their side."
Jon Summers, a Reid spokesman, challenged Angle's consistency. He pointed out that Angle said in an interview this week with ABC News that lawmakers who supported "bailout" policies were "not friends to the free market system."
"Given that line of thinking, it seems odd that she would allow people she classifies as domestic enemies to hold a fundraiser for her in Washington," Summers said.
Summers was referring to the Oct. 1, 2008, bank bailout vote, which passed 74-25 in the Senate with support from both Democrats and Republicans, including McConnell, Kyl and Cornyn.
According to a copy of the invitation obtained Wednesday by Politico and confirmed by Republican sources, the host list for Sept. 16 includes former Rep. Bill Paxon of New York; Tim Powers, a former Republican National Committee and Bush-Cheney 2000 staffer; David Norcross, a former RNC general counsel; former Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina; Kirsten Chadwick, a former White House aide under President George W. Bush; Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and a major GOP fundraiser; and Jade West, a former Senate Republican aide. All are lobbyists and/or Republican fundraisers.
Angle's campaign has not disclosed details of her itinerary but said it was encouraged by its prospects.
"Sharron Angle is earning the cooperation and support from national figures within the Republican Party, and it is an excellent sign that our campaign is hitting its stride in both fundraising and messaging," spokesman Jerry Stacy said.
Angle went to Washington June 15-16, a week after winning the Nevada Republican primary to take on Reid. She had lunch with Republican senators in the U.S. Capitol and met individually with Cornyn and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
She left Washington to mixed reviews. She avoided encounters with the media, leading Cornyn to declare that her campaign would need "a few weeks" to get prepared for a major race.
After she departed, Democrats said they were more confident that Reid could be re-elected in November .
Contact Stephens Washington Bureau Chief Steve Tetreault at stetreault@stephensmedia.com or 202-783-1760.
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President Obama said to get out of this mess would not be easy. And it isn't. I do not believe we will make it out with Angle's "no" in the Congress. She will collect a salary and produce nothing like Ensign is now. Tea partiers want instint gradafacation. And it is not going to happen. Democrats understand this. If Angle wins, do not expect any federal money to come to Nevada. We will be on our own and left to swing in the wind.
Fed Report Finds Signs That Growth Is Slowing
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: September 8, 2010
The United States economy showed “widespread signs” of slowing, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, though modest growth continued from mid-July through the end of August.
The latest regional survey by the 12 district Federal banks, known as the beige book, described an economy in which many sectors, from consumer spending to manufacturing, continued to expand. But there were also “widespread signs of a deceleration,” the report said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/business/economy/09econ.html?scp=9&sq=&st=nyt
They have no answers--but they don't want to lose the power. They flail about mocking and distracting--but it is always about peoples economic well being. And this administrations fixation of being a "transformitive" bridge to the brave new world of utopian bliss, has doomed it--even as it used soul-less self serving pols like Reid as a tool, they miscaluclated badly. Reid had no vision like Obama--but he is accountable. Reid's entire attempt to grasp what he was involved in was to comment on Obama's lack of an inner city dialect (unless he wanted one). He is a bag man and nothing more. But despite his desperate claims that-- "Harry Reid: ‘I Had Nothing to Do’ with Economic Slump"--he was the instrument. And he will be help accountable.
It's over Harry. You're done. We'll clean house not just with you--but with the whole lot of you. And start over.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/reid-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-economic-slump-angle-has-long-list-of-negative-hits.html
We start cleaning the mess up in 54 days. It won't be easy.
No other way to read it: Democrats are in trouble
"Viewing the upcoming November midterm election as anything but a referendum on the president’s agenda would be ridiculous. Looking at the big picture (and overlooking the possibility that it’s all George W. Bush’s fault), the party in power has muscled through auto company bailouts, about $800 billion in stimulus funds, gotten the cap-and-trade bill through the House, and forced through the unpopular health care legislation...."
The excerpts of Obama's interview were released on the same day as the Federal reserve warned that the US economic recovery was showing "widespread" signs of slowing, amid 9.6 percent unemployment and a struggling real estate sector.
Obama: Democrats in trouble if election based on economy
(AFP) – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday if US voters in the upcoming midterm elections make their choices based on their opinion of the economy, his Democratic Party could be in big trouble.
"If the election is a referendum on are people satisfied about the economy as it currently is, then we're not going to do well," Obama told ABC News in an interview to be aired in full Thursday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i1meHVE467YzLsxIbyhrW6jlZfSQ
Nevada? Is it about the economy? or--"Black Shirts" and taunts?
Reid is history--and the Tsunami coming will sweep wide and far..Not going to be pretty to be a dem..but in fairness..they have it coming.
Mar 8, 2010 ... When the White House announced last week it would be losing the services of Lewis A. Sachs, one of the president's top economic advisers...
November 25, 2008
Washington — President-elect Barack Obama turned to a leading authority on the Great Depression for his economic team Monday, tapping UC Berkeley economist Christina Romer to head his Council of Economic Advisers as part of his battle plan to address what he described as "an economic crisis of historic proportions."
August 6th, 2010
According to reports, Christina Romer, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economics Advisers (CEA) is calling it quits. Why does this matter? Another ignored economist leaves Washington with a slightly tattered professional reputation to be received joyously back in the arms of her colleagues in academe having served in a glorious cause—pass the brie and chablis....
They can smell what's coming too...
Not going to be pretty for the dems in November..
Going Against Former Boss, Obama’s Former Budget Director Says Bush Tax Cuts Should Be Extended
The former OMB director writes that “Higher taxes now would crimp consumer spending, further depressing the already inadequate demand for what firms are capable of producing at full tilt."
Democratic Sens. v. Obama on Bush Tax Cuts
Democratic Senator, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, has officially come out in favor of a blanket extension of the Bush-era tax cuts. That makes four sitting Democratic Senators and two Democratic candidates in opposition to the White House...
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel hasn't yet decided whether he'll leave the administration and run for mayor of Chicago. But with aides saying that they'd be surprised if he didn't, speculation has begun over who his potential replacement might be and what staffing shake-ups might follow.
Their ship is listing..and the rats are fleeing..
We will vote them out in just 54 Days.
¡Sí, Se Puede!
Washington (CNN) - Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle is making a final push in the last two months before the Election Day to attract more Hispanic voters to the polls.
Angle has yet to release a Spanish language campaign ad, but a campaign spokesperson tells CNN the first commercial is on its way.
elizab46-hey don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!