Reid vs. Sandoval Debate: Snore.

This was simply the least informative, least surprising debate of this woefully endless campaign season. The debate between former judge, Brian Sandoval and Rory Reid, a Clark County Commissioner and heir apparent to Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, left me struggling to stay awake and engaged.

Let’s bottomline it here: Not a game changer.

As a former university level debater/debate judge, Sandoval won on style points. He’s pretty. He’s improved his public persona and speaking ability. Woulda that Reid coulda.

But let’s look at substance.

Both continue to ignore the 900 lb gorilla in the room of a massive revenue shortfall in this state. We’ve got such a broken electoral system that no candidate can dare mention the OBVIOUS:

We need to raise taxes.

Sandoval lost to Reid on the subject of education and it’s critical importance is turning this state around - ever. Rory is right, if you take the current funding crisis out on education in Nevada, it won’t matter how low the taxes are. Business will not come to Nevada.

We already have insanely low, insupportably low taxes. Gee, why then haven’t businesses been flocking here? Why are we in such a hole? Because Nevada is always at the bottom on education - that’s the one constant that Sandoval refuses to recognize.

So, we sat there and watched these two candidates dance around, restating their talking points, the guy with a flawed plan vs the guy with no plan but pretty teeth.

What have we really got here?

Sigh.

-maven

Friday Fish Wrap: June 25, 2010

Scanning the news in preparation for writing this post, one subject kept coming to the surface - rather like an oily slick down in the Gulf. The BP oil blowout isn’t anywhere near contained. Not only does BP not really know for sure all that might be wrong with the well, but they haven’t a clue how to fix it. They are in uncharted territory.

Last night, I wrote a post about hydraulic ‘fracking’ - a nasty technique used by BP and other oil and gas producers. My post was about the use of ‘fracking’ in the pursuit of natural gas and the truly nasty toxic effects resulting from that technique. One of my regular readers commented that she’d heard something to the effect that ‘fracking’ might have been used in the Gulf Deepwater Horizon well, and that methane gas and oil might be leaking from uncounted fissures in the seabed around the well.

This said, an idiot judge - Martin L. C. Feldman of the United States District Court in New Orleans -  has decided that a moratorium on more new drilling is a bad idea. You might think this is hard to believe, but the judge has personal financial interests in the oil industry.

Do you remember back in the day of the Challenger explosion?

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Dan Hart's 'Don't bet on Sandoval' just another cheesy front group

Don’t let anybody say that I only walk the talk on a single side of the street. In this case, a former Reid operative is pissing me off with this campaign against Brian Sandoval - the guy who would be Governor Jim ‘Crazy Pants’ Gibbons replacement.

Out of sheer cussedness I think I’d vote for Sandoval, were the election tomorrow. If I could re-register as a Republican temporarily to vote for Sandoval in the Republican primary, I would do it in a heart beat.

Is the Rory Reid campaign listening?

They ought to be.

I don’t like chicken shit front groups. They’re inherently dishonest. They usually represent dishonest people/causes that I don’t like. These front groups - finely tuned by the wingnut ‘right’ - occasionally find their way into good campaigns- like that of Rory Reid.

That’s too bad.

Have you seen the ads against Brian Sandoval?

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