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Rory Reid kicks off gubernatorial bid

Candidate kicks off gubernatorial bid with focus on jobs




Pay no attention to Rory Reid's poll position or his famous father.

He isn't.


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  • Reid, a Clark County commissioner running for governor of Nevada, says voters want to hear more about new jobs than election predictions and his family tree.

    That is why Reid, 47, says the formal launch of his campaign this evening will lay out a plan to lower unemployment and revive the Nevada economy without raising taxes.

    "Everybody advised me not to do what I'm doing. Politics 101 is that you say nothing. Because if you say nothing, it is hard to argue with it," Reid said of kicking off his campaign with policy proposals. "I think we have daunting problems in our state, and I am going to fire the starting gun on the debate about how we are going to turn it around."

    Whoever takes office in Carson City next year will face serious problems.

    Nevada's unemployment rate of 13.2 percent is second only to Michigan's. Lawmakers say that by the 2011 legislative session, the state's expenses could be $2.4 billion higher than projected revenue. Income from gambling, the state's core industry, has declined for 20 consecutive months.

    The state also leads the nation in home foreclosure rates, lags in education and, said economic analyst Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis, "has no economic policy of which it is aware."

    Reid said identifying solutions to the state's big problems weighs heavier on voters' minds than the fact his father, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is running for office too.

    "Nobody has asked me who my father is. I think people want to go back to work. They want to know they have a secure future here in our state," said Reid, who has been campaigning informally and raising money for months.

    But if he is going to get a crack at tackling Nevada's problems, he will have to solve some political problems first.

    Despite his status as the leading announced Democrat in a state with about 111,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, Reid is behind in polls.

    A Mason-Dixon Polling & Research survey last week showed 50 percent of respondents behind leading Republican Brian Sandoval, a former federal judge, compared with 33 percent for Reid.

    If Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman were to run as an independent, the same poll showed Sandoval and Goodman tied at 33 percent and Reid at 25 percent.

    Only Republican incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose favorable rating is 14 percent, and former North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon, whom 4 percent of Republicans identified as their favorite candidate, have lower polling numbers than Reid.

    "You can paint some scenarios that get him (Reid) there," said Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker. "Easiest path is Gibbons is nominated by the Republicans."

    Although there are no numbers to back it up, Coker said the fact that 50 percent of Nevadans have an unfavorable view of Sen. Reid and just 38 percent have a favorable view is likely to hurt Rory Reid's chances.

    "I think it is going to be hard for him (Rory Reid) to get half the vote if voters in the state are rejecting his father at the same time," Coker said. "It just strikes me as not being normal human political behavior."

    Contact reporter Benjamin Spillman at bspillman@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861.

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    adan wrote on December 01, 2009 06:04 PM: Rory Reid will be better than Gibbons and Sandoval. He cares about Nevadans. He is proposing policies that will revive our state economy and help our education system. If Republicans and Democrats dont want our state economy in ruins then they need to vote for this guy.


    ewest wrote on November 24, 2009 07:47 AM: His father is a complete lunatic. Let's hope it doesn't run in the family.


    NVObserver wrote on October 15, 2009 08:25 AM: No Rory. No Harry.

    Nevadan's have been Reided to death!


    Tim wrote on October 14, 2009 09:55 PM: I am a Republican and I am voting for Harry Reid.

    A vote for Reid is a vote for Nevada!


    Vet wrote on October 14, 2009 08:50 PM: Iraq and Afghanistan is our new V. Nam in this Century.

    Just loss of Americans lives and money. While others on the less fortunate receiving end side suffer more.

    The whole world is laughing at poor American Citizens. While the politicians get wealthy off the death of others.

    Keep the mind on the war and not our own Country is the idea. While the politicians and lawyers destroy and steal from Americans and our way of life.


    douglas wrote on October 14, 2009 06:42 PM: does anyone think that the reid whelp would contradict harry osama reid's agendas which are crippling the u.s. and the state of nevada ?

    - enabling the illegal infiltrator attack on our economy [harry osama's "pre-citizens"]. look at our rising unemployment, our jammed class rooms/prisons/"free" services/gang membership/uninsured drivers. don't we have enough homegrown criminals/homeless/habitually unemployed/unemployable/illiterate/leaf blower operators that we need to wink at the continuing infestation ? when your home is invaded by mice, should you feed them, give them names and call them family ? or do you send them back from whence they came ?

    - deliberately stalling the exploration and harvesting of this nation's and nevada's energy reserves. that ultimately forces american consumer dollars into islamic terrorist cells via sympathetic, financially supporting opec members. only good thing about that is the [hopefully] american manufactured prosthetic device industry gains with each improvised road side explosive attack on our deployed military. deployed in the "war is lost" iraq, and now, the "change" oaf's afghanistan. the coming, huge increase in consumer energy costs [and the cost of all consumer goods that have to be transported] will stab the taxpayers' wallets... all of them, not just those of the "> $250k a year" earners".


    No R wrote on October 14, 2009 04:53 PM: ah, if only a qualified democrat would run against reid!

    thanks xee!


    Paul wrote on October 14, 2009 04:50 PM: Like Father like son. Save Nevada and America from the Reid's.


    keith wrote on October 14, 2009 04:39 PM: When the Reid family as a group of lawyers on the hunt against Americans for profit. Stay in the political arena it is a destruction the Nevada peoples.

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    SamT wrote on October 14, 2009 03:22 PM: @wow: Tell everyone why you're a Reid fan.


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