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STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Updated: Jun. 25, 2010 | 2:20 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Republican Sharron Angle unveiled the first advertisement of her post-primary U.S. Senate campaign Monday , an Internet production that accuses Sen. Harry Reid of mudslinging while national problems fester.
The minute-and-a-half spot charges the Senate majority leader with attacking his challenger rather than “offering solutions to our problems” that include a skyrocketing national debt and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is Angle’s first move of the general election, after being blasted for almost two weeks by advertising sponsored by Reid’s campaign and the Patriot Majority PAC, a Reid-linked political action committee. Democrats are focusing so far on Angle’s position on privatizing Social Security, declaring it a dangerous and extreme proposition.
The Angle spot seeks to turn the tables.
“Within hours of Sharron Angle becoming the nominee to face Reid in November, Reid launched a brutal advertising assault that is a slap in the face to all Americans,” the Angle ad contends.
“Not only is Reid not offering solutions to our problems, he’s using special interest money to throw mud and try to tear down his opponent,” it adds.
Reid spokesman Jon Summers said the incumbent’s commercials against Angle are legitimate, and she is the one who has explaining to do. Angle’s solutions, such as killing the Department of Energy during an oil crisis, would make things worse, he contended.
“We are asking her to talk about why she wants to kill Social Security,” Summers said. “If she wants to call that an attack that’s interesting, but the reality is she is hiding from reporters and hiding from the people of Nevada.”
The Angle ad appeals for viewers to donate at her website.
Angle has raised $911,405 through her website as of Monday morning. She has made fundraising a priority of her early campaigning after a competitive GOP primary during which she raised more than $1.2 million and as Reid is on pace to raise more than $20 million to defend his seat in the Senate.
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Dear Harry-your points are pointless. 1.There will never be a president more incompetent than GW.
2.Lets say your numbers are correct-1/4 of 1% of a trillion dollars is quite a bit of money for a small state. 3.Mexican presidential support? Wasn't that your guy GW holding hands with Vinny Fox? Oh sorry that was a middle eastern guy,you know the ones that we have to go to war for, and have our kids killed so they won't turn off the oil.He just hugged Fox a lot. 4.Republican base? which one is that? the ones with brains who laugh at Palin and Angle? Or you teabag types? I think your "base" needs a book under one of it's legs to stop the wobbling.5. We did want health care reform or did you forget the election? 6. If you think for a second this country wants to go back to the 14 years of GOP governance you are delusional. Katrina,torture,wiretaps,corporate control of everything,no regulations,911,Iraq. No!- make no mistake we learned our lessons well with your guys running things. Americas memory is short(there is some hope for you) but is not that short. Your party just about ruined America, but we saved it in 2008,and we ain't going back. Why do you want to?
renostarman ... Thank you for giving us the most incompetent President in history. Thank you for giving us Harry Reid, who received for Nevada less than a quarter of one percent of the stimulus package. Thank you for giving us a Democratic controlled Congress with a 22% approval rating. Thank you for giving us a President who supports that mexican president dude, yet at the same time critizes one of his own states. Thank you for energizing the Republican base, which will decimate the Democrats in November, and finally, thank you for unwanted health care, bailouts and skyrocketing unemployment. You have a lot to be proud of. When you vacation in South Carolina-don't come back.
You useful idiots vote for Reid if you want the next four years to be just like the last two.
Reid and the dems don't have a clue about how to restart the economy. Green jobs, yeah right, good luck with that.
Smelly can't handle the truth, Sharon Angle's ties to Scientology were brought out by fellow Republican Sue Lowden, Angle and her handlers have tried to whitewash her website of any mention of her high profile Scientology friends. Sounds like Sharon Angle is a closet Sceintologist. Sharon Angle can't be trusted.
Palin, Angle, Michele Bachmann? How would you describe them Mari? Intellectuals? You think the left is afraid of them and that is why they are attacked? No ones afraid of them-WHAT we are afraid of is that people who consider them qualified are actually allowed to vote in this country! That is terrifying.
Christie Whitman, the senators the Maine,- there are plenty of GOP women who are exceptional. But here in Nevada we get "chickens for checkups" and "personalizing" Social security,
"second amendment solutions" types of women; who when ads of themselves on videotape are shown believe they are being attacked.
Why are all women politicians attacked automatically as stupid bimbos? Can't you come up with something else any more?
Thank You GOP for giving us a senator who had an affair and had his parents pay off the husband. Thank you GOP for giving us a governor who will be or should be indicted for perjury, corruption,spousal abuse,jury tampering, ect ect. Thank You GOP for funding our schools so well that we rank last in high school graduation rates and 48th overall.
And a VERY big THANK YOU for making Nevada the envy of every good ole boy in South Carolina by giving us a senatorial candidate whose beliefs were such an embarrassment that the GOP pulled her website down after her election to hide them. Black helicopters, fluoride communist conspiracy's, second amendment solutions, hiding from the press like Palin, (they can't answer simple questions anyway, so no harm there) she has it all!
Thank You GOP for making me so proud of being a Nevadan, that I'm taking a vacation in South Carolina-just to show off !
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say there should be a Bureau of Land Management. But Angle is living off of her husband's retirement from his 37 years with BLM.
MORMONS FOR REID! LA RAZA FOR REID! VOTE REID IN NOVEMBER!
You are hilarious, nckl444: Ooooh, Angle wants to give massages to prisoners! Stop the presses, even though this totally distorted non-story was many years ago. I'd much rather give massages to anyone instead of being massaged into poverty by a dishonest, corrupt
bully like Harry Reid. He and his fellow Marxists get free massages, haircuts and anything else they want every day right there in the Senate and you cough up for it, and a million more expensive things. Reid and his puppetmaster Obama--or is the other way around--have stolen the U.S. economy, never mind a massage!