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Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2008 10:52 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 September 2008 09:21
Republican’s Bob Beers and Joe Heck are the targets of these shameless smear tactics. These two committed public servants have served the people of their districts, the state of Nevada, and the United States with credibility and honor, and now national Democrats in a last ditch effort pull out all of the stops and into full blown smear mode. Why are Nevada Democrats resorting to these tactics? Because their candidates are horribly unqualified.
From the Review Journal:
National Democrats are helping to fund the campaigns under the auspices of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, he said, while national consultants are helping to craft them.
Both state Senate districts were once reliably Republican but now have slightly more Democrats than Republicans registered, following a statewide trend toward more Democratic registration over the past year.
Beers, a former gubernatorial candidate who lost the 2006 Republican primary to Gov. Jim Gibbons, said the attacks are getting in the way of debates on real issues the campaign should be addressing: what to do about the state’s future.
“It’s a strategy by the Democrats to hide their candidate away and attempt to convince people that I’m something that I’m very clearly not,” Beers said. “Radioactive? Biased against people who work at casinos? Hanging out with pornographers? Those are all things that are simply false.”
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