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Voice Of Nevada RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Inside: Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7 The stories of lawlessness are over- Pelosi So Full of Crap blown. DOUG FRENCH PAGE 9

Her Botox is Brown —Eric Garcetti, Mayor, MERRILL MATTHEWS PAGE 10 Los Angeles ROBERT ROMANO PAGE 11 See Editorial Page 6 CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 4 Do Those Who Savaged Barr Want People to Live In Fear of Living? Continued from page 3 Nobel Prize for this discovery. Health Organization (WHO) recommendations seems extreme. Recall Given that other prior coronaviruses, MERS (2012) and SARS (2003) that WHO also did not recommend wearing masks, the new Holy Grail still pop up, it is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID- of COVID-19 prevention. And are we to believe the same crowd who 19 will be with us for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, physicians excoriated President Trump as racist for blocking travel from China at the want safe, affordable (less than $30 per full treatment), readily available end of January while they were encouraging people to frolic in crowded COVID-19 treatments for their patients. Hydroxychloroquine—not a big Chinatown in late February? Pharma moneymaker—is effective for many patients, and physicians with Let’s look at a couple of examples of accepted medical tenets that experience simply want to educate others about another weapon in the were initially dismissed. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, fight against an ugly virus. famously was ridiculed for advocating handwashing after performing The vitriol and disregard for fact-finding on the part of congresspersons autopsies before touching living patients. In less than 6 months after and the dissembling on the part of the social media giants leaves one handwashing was instituted, post-partum (childbirth) fever mortality rates wondering: Do the people who savaged Attorney General Barr and gave dropped 90 percent, from 18.3 percent to less than 2 percent. Despite the big tech a pass want people to live in fear of living life? Do they want evidence, he was vilified and eventually was admitted against his will to people to be unemployed and dependent of the government for survival? an insane asylum where he died 2 weeks after being severely beaten. Now, Do they want children to stay home from school and regress from normal failure to wash hands is unthinkable. childhood development? Do they want the country’s economic boom to More recently, in the mid-1980s Dr. Barry Marshall was convinced remain in the rear view mirror? Would they allow people to needlessly die that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria, rather than the stress, acid, in order to gain political power? and spicy foods theory. Resistance was fierce: “Everyone was against me. But I knew I was right.” Finally, he drank a Petri dish with some thousand Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist. She is Immediate million bacteria, including cultured Helicobacter pylori and shortly Past President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons developed documented stomach ulcers. Dr. Marshall received the 2005 (AAPS). THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht and James Smack Third, the essential faults perhaps more than100 million take a short cut to the end state via Communism and failures of communism also people: 65 million in China, 30 especially harsh means. characterize all government to million in Russia, and 10 million The problem for communism is and Millennials, some degree, especially democratic elsewhere. Further abuses included similar in kind to that of lesser forms socialism, progressivism and statist massive deportations, forced of coercive collectivism, even if liberalism. emigration, forced labor camps, much worse in degree. Simply put, Progressives The starry-eyed ignorance of police-state terror, and systematic each system promises ultimately to communism’s supporters then and brutal denials of human rights, deliver good results, but in order to and Liberals and now stemmed from the false liberty and justice as part of their get there it must first break a few belief that capitalism (private social engineering. eggs. This is the essential nature This originally appeared in 2017 property and free-market systems) Ultimately, it collapsed from of all government: It promises to are based upon and promote these monstrous facts and because deliver net benefits to society, but In the 100th anniversary of predatory behavior. So, they must it couldn’t provide economic in order to develop the means to communism last month, three be responsible for poverty, misery, growth and human wellbeing deliver benefits, it must first do points stood out. exploitation and war. Communism comparable at all to what private some human damage to real people. First, polls say half of America’s and other coercive collectivism, property and market systems do. Thus, public spending will millennials would rather live under in their view, are structured for Indeed, communism produced great help the needy and deserving poor socialism or communism than equality, fairness, prosperity, peace equality only by making nearly and will provide the benefits of capitalism. and tranquility. everyone poor relative to living education, transportation systems, Second, the reality of That was the premise and the standards enjoyed under capitalism. etc. But to do so, it must first tax communism was, horrifically, promise. The reality? Even though hundreds of people. Similarly, regulations will exactly the opposite of the naïve Via famines and starvation millions suffered or perished, many protect some people by diminishing view held by today’s young and by caused by forced collectivization, American young people embrace rights of others. many people around the world in plus executions, mass murder this nonsense due to their ignorance The damage from taking the last century. and war, state communism killed of history and the stupid, evil money and rights from people dogma they’ve been taught in our is always unavoidable, but the education systems. benefits from subsidies, public The falseness of communism’s goods and protection for others promises are seen in its reality as are uncertain and contingent. So, Tips Of Our it unfolded in 1917’s Bolshevik leftists, politicians and bureaucrats revolution and others. Karl Marx dwell on the promised benefits in and Friedrich Engels promised order to obscure the uncertainty Cap and “from each according to his ability that purported benefits will actually to each according to his need.” materialize and exceed the costs and But Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said damage necessitated by their plans. Bronx Cheers the ends justify the means – any Limited-government libertarian means. Then Joseph Stalin in conservatives are the adults who Russia, Mao Zedong in China, Pol are focused on acknowledging the The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: Pot in Cambodia, the Kim dynasty cost and damage and restraining in North Korea, plus Fidel Castro government over-reach to assure Joe Biden, who picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. This will place the complete and total and other tyrants in Latin America, that the actual benefits are greater hypocrisy of the Democrat party on full display for America’s voters and despite the cynicism of Africa and Asia took Lenin’s than the costs. the Washington establishment, we’re simply not that stupid. This also gives us a chance at voting viciousness and ran amok with it. Progressives and statist liberals and throwing up at the same time. Like Joe, she’s an empty suit. The reason communism fails chafe when one points out what President Trump whose campaign sued Nevada as promised to stop its totally unregulated mail lies in the logic of Marx, Engels they have in common with socialists voting plan. Under the Nevada plan, ballots will be indiscriminately mailed to all registered vot- and Lenin that is essential to its and communists. But the further ers and their last known address without an absentee ballot request. actual practice. Marx and Engels we go down their road, the more sketched a long unrealistic plan of millennials will learn the truth of development that would require a limiting government instead of dictatorship of the proletariat among being its booster. The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer other things before the nirvana of And A Bouquet of Weeds To: sweet, tranquil communism arrived. The practitioners had no patience RON KNECHT and for all that and believed they could JAMES SMACK The Big 10 and Pac-12 conferences for taking the pussy way out and canceling the 2020 football season. If NASCAR can run with fans and others can play without, this shows that University Presidents have no cojones whatsoever. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 6 OPINION From The Publisher... Pelosi So Full of Crap Her Botox is Brown Watching Nancy Pelosi on Fox News Sunday, I have come When you tell us that President Trump didn’t handle to the conclusion that she is so full of crap that her Botox COVID19 well, you’re clearly rewriting history. Back in the is brown. early days, when Trump stopped travel from China, you were dancing around Chinatown and calling Trump a racist. She told Chris Wallace, “I just recall a prayer that says: Have you forgotten that? Pray for those who are hungry, pray harder for those who will not feed them. Pray for those who are homeless, pray You, madam, are a hypocrite and a moron. harder for those who will not give them shelter. Pray for those who are sick and lonely, pray harder for those who And then, there’s her great white hope in the 2020 election, will not give them comfort.” Joe Biden.

By those standards, pastors such as Joel Osteen, should He responded to the written threat from what can only be send a tsunami of prayers towards Pelosi’s San Francisco described as the Democrat Black Intelligentsia by naming home because she, in essence, said we should pray for her. Kamala Harris as his running mate.

She, cynically, pushed a $3,000,000,000,000 (YES, THAT’S Joe thinks that selecting Harris will bring him the black TRILLION) bill through the House two months ago which vote. The same black vote whose kids are being shot to had absolutely zero chance of even being taken up in the death in Chicago. Really? Let’s do something unusual. Senate and then refused to “negotiate” for two months. Let’s go to Pilsen and Canaryville in Chicago and actually ASK black mothers. What she did, was bet that the Republicans would be forced into a corner when the $600 per week addition to Hell, let’s ask Joe. “If you have a problem figuring unemployment insurance ran out. out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Apparently she hasn’t spent much time in a sports book. That’s what this senile old man said. And when a black CBS reporter asked him if he had taken a cognitive test, he And the President simply took Pelosi’s bet off the board by said, “No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take taking executive action very similar to the actions Pelosi’s a test? Come on, man. That’s like saying to you, before patron saint, Barack Obama (“I have a pen and a phone”) you got on this program if you had taken a test were you used to take. taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?” She really thinks the average American is as dumb as did Hillary Clinton. During that interview she said that Well, here’s what Joe doesn’t know. All of us on Medicare they (her Democrats) would come down a Trillion if the do so once a year. And I can guarantee you Joe’s on Republicans would come up a Trillion. Medicare.

As Jerry Lewis used to say, “HEY LADY!” Watching this campaign is like watching an episode of Family Feud. We DO understand how much a Trillion dollars is. We also understand that when you piss it all away on your One can only hope that Kamala is up to it. pet projects, the only people who get something are your campaign contributors. FRED WEINBERG

There’s another factor. THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 7 Commentary: Robert Ringer remember every sound bite they hear, which is why repetition is so important. Trump’s Presumption-of- As just one example, Trump should be pounding away daily at the potpourri of Biden’s racist comments and actions over the years, e.g., “They’re gonna put ya’ll back in chains” … calling Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream Knowledge Challenge African-American who is articulate and bright and clean” … his warm and fuzzy eulogy of segregationist Strom Thurmond … his shoddy treatment of Anita Presumption of knowledge is an unconscious habit of the mind. In his book Hill … his reference to African-American felons as “predators” who are too Confessions of an Advertising Man, legendary advertising giant David Ogilvy sociopathic to rehabilitate … his praise of one-time KKK member Robert Byrd cautioned, “Never underestimate the reader’s lack of understanding of words you … and, most recently, his classic admonishment, “If you have a problem figuring may not think to be difficult.” I would expand on Ogilvy’s thought by saying it’s out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” a mistake to presume people know things just because you do. Above all, there are pointed questions that should be repeatedly directed at Presumption of knowledge is especially dangerous in politics, where Biden, both through campaign ads and by Trump personally. A handful that come potential voters are inundated with lies and misinformation 24 hours a day. One quickly to mind include: of the biggest reasons Democrats have been able to control the political agenda 1. Why are you against poor inner-city parents having the opportunity to in the United States for decades is because they are master messengers. They send their children to schools of their choice? don’t presume that the listener knows something that may seem obvious to them, 2. Why did you sponsor the 1994 Crime Bill that led to the mass so they break everything down into simple terms and — following the advice of incarceration of minorities? infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels — repeat their lies over and over 3. Why do you, a professed Catholic, support unrestricted abortions? again until people eventually believe them. 4. Why have you not spoken out about the Black Lives Matter and Antifa By contrast, Republicans have neither the skills nor the courage to violence in New York City, Portland, Seattle, and other U.S. cities? communicate even the most obvious truths. They seem to believe that 5. Do you agree with Black Lives Matter’s stated intention to dismantle the the information put out every day by conservative media giants like Rush nuclear family? Limbaugh, Mark Levine, and Sean Hannity are well known to the general public. 6. Why have you plagiarized so many other people’s words so many times Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, what these and throughout your career? other conservative commentators actually do is preach to the choir, because the 7. Are you willing to release a list of your potential Supreme Court overwhelming majority of people tuning into their shows already agree with their nominees so people can evaluate your judicial philosophy? beliefs. 8. Why was your son Hunter being paid $83,000 a month to sit on the board I became convinced of this some years ago when I was having a friendly of a Ukrainian energy company even though he had no experience in little debate with a liberal business acquaintance of mine (“Dan”). He and his either energy or the Ukraine? wife were highly educated, highly paid healthcare-industry consultants, which 9. Why did China invest $1.5 billion in a private equity firm in which your afforded them an upscale lifestyle. In the midst of one of our debates, frustrated son Hunter was a partner? by his automaton-like repetition of Democrat talking points, I asked Dan if he And, arguably, the two most important questions of all: ever watched Fox News (which at the time was much more conservative than it • why are you afraid to take a cognitive-function test administered by a is now), to which he replied, “Not if I can help it.” non-partisan professional? That may sound like an innocuous remark, but it wasn’t, because it reminded • Are you willing to assure the public that you will debate me, in person, at me again that a majority of the population voluntarily cuts itself off from a lot least three times — or do you intend to use the coronavirus as an excuse of important information that could impact their lives. They do so not only by to stay hidden away in your basement? getting their “news” from propaganda outfits like CNN, MSNBC, and the New The last question is critical, because Biden’s puppet masters are prepared York Times, but by refusing to tune in to conservative media outlets to hear facts to do almost anything to avoid even one face-to-face debate with Trump. They that are ignored by the mainstream media. know full well that Biden would hit the canvass in the first ten minutes of the first The classic example of this was the lack of scrutiny given to Barack Obama, debate and it would be the end of his placeholder campaign. even though he had a well-documented public record of being a Radical Left, In fact, it would be so bad that the Dem elites might even try to slip in a anti-American agitator. He was able to win the presidency not only because substitute candidate for Biden before the election. Could Hillary’s fantasy about Republicans ran pathetic John McCain against him, but because they mistakenly the Dirty Dems becoming so desperate that they would beg her to step in at the presumed that most of the public knew about his Marxist past. Ditto when the last minute become a reality? GOP ran Mitt Romney, another wimpy apologist, against Obama the second time The word is that the Trump team is coming out with new Biden attack ads around. this week, perhaps starting today. I hope so, because the president cannot afford Which brings me to today and Joe Biden. Plain and simple, Biden is the to continue making the mistake of presuming voters know all about Basement most flawed presidential candidate in my lifetime. (I use the term presidential Joe’s flaws. In clear, easy-to-understand terms, Trump and his campaign ads candidate loosely, because everyone — on both the right and the left — realizes should pound away at those flaws relentlessly between now and November 3. that he is not the real Democratic candidate, but merely a placeholder for his I’m not saying Trump should not continue to talk about the coronavirus, running mate and the Democrat elites who would be calling the shots if he were the ongoing China threat, and his significant number of accomplishments, but I to become president.) always believe in taking the most certain path to a positive outcome. And in this That said, so long as Basement Joe is technically the Dirty Dem candidate, case the most certain path to victory is not only to make the election a referendum voters need to be reminded of the old adage: Be careful what you wish for, or on Joe Biden, but to do so by presuming no knowledge on the part of voters — you may get it. In other words, it’s critical to make certain that independents which means stating every fact simply, clearly, and repeatedly. who are planning to vote for Biden clearly understand what they will be getting Done correctly, it could result in a Trump landslide — and, best of all, mass should he become president. apoplexy for Democrats. Unfortunately, thus far Donald Trump and his campaign team have shown ROBERT RINGER little interest in exposing Biden’s atrocious record. Oh, sure, the president Robert Ringer (© 2020)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has drops a snide comment here or there about Biden’s racist remarks, his decades appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The of corruption, or his support for abortion-on-demand, but it’s almost gratuitous. Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, ABC The fact is that an occasional jab won’t do it. Making the presumption Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox Business. To that most voters know about Biden’s checkered past and his newfound love for sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily insights, visit www. Radical Left ideas is a big mistake. They don’t. You can’t expect people to robertringer.com. THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 8 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 9 Commentary: Doug French the story is familiar. A developer needs zoning and favors are provided Under Water to those on the council who provide the required affirmative votes from city hall. VegasInc.com shouted this headline yesterday “Amid pandemic Banks agree to lend when a certain number of units are pre-sold. gloom, Las Vegas housing market ‘on fire.’” The median price for an Friends and family are rounded up to put money down, never thinking existing home set a new record at $330,000, a long ways from the 2012 they would ever have to close and take possession. Someone would buy median of $118,000. their unit for a tidy profit long before the C of O is obtained. Unit prices “The Las Vegas housing market is not just a bright spot in the economy, would double or more as towers reached skyward. “It wasn’t unusual it’s on fire,” said Tom Blanchard, a local agent and the president of the for Caribe units to change hands four or five timeless as the towers were LVR group. “Local home prices are at record levels, with historically going up,” Dezember writes. “It’s like when the NASDAQ was going low interest rates, strong demand and a tight housing supply driving the crazy and you couldn’t lose,” a condo investor told the author. market.” Some lenders would actually provide letters of credit for a one percent With Las Vegas in a bad way with tourists, conventioneers, and fee to some buyers. For good bank customers the fee was waived, granting gamblers in short supply, unemployment is high and mortgage delinquency buyers a risk-free, no money down option on a yet-to-be-built unit. was “18.18 percent in the second quarter, down from 18.61 percent in the America’s love affair with homeownership was fueled by the previous quarter and from 18.89 percent in fourth quarter 2009,” reports government during the Depression. In 1931, Herbert Hoover said, “To the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “the second-highest mortgage delinquency possess one’s own home is the hope and ambition of almost every rate in the nation, trailing only Miami.” individual in our country, whether he lives in a hotel, apartment, or It seems incongruous. tenement.” Hoover quipped, “they never sing songs about a pile of rent For decades, buying a house was the American thing to do. Houses receipts.” FDR said a nation of homeowners “is unconquerable.” always go up in value, it was claimed. Every month’s payment meant America may be more vulnerable to attack these days, post housing some money was going into a sort of savings. Buy as much house as you crash. Dezember spends a good share of the book chronicling the rise can afford was the advice, the bigger the house the bigger the gain. of the institutional landlord. The Blackstones, the Blackrocks, and the That wisdom has become situational, at best. Whether one wins or Sternlights sucked up foreclosed homes by the thousands, clearing the loses at the housing game has turned into a matter of timing. Gone are the market of people’s dream homes that became nightmares post 2006, when days when you finished school, got a job at the plant in town, got married, the housing market peaked. Mom and pop couldn’t compete with Wall bought a house, and stayed there until old age. Street functionaries with satchels full of cashier’s checks who kept biding, Jobs don’t last forever and neither do marriages. Having a house isn’t “Dollar over. Dollar over. Dollar over. Dollar over. He’d say it until other the problem, but the mortgage that goes with it serves as a ball and chain, bidders gave up.” hindering job and other opportunities that arise in other places. “About 55 percent of owner-occupied U.S. homes are owned by Ryan Dezember was offered a job reporting on the real estate market people fifty or older,” writes Dezember, who wonders who will step up to in Mobile, Alabama and the rest of the Redneck Riviera during the buy from these baby-boomers when they look to sell. early 2000s boom. He wrote his story “My 10-Year Odyssey Through Who will indeed. America’s Housing Crisis,” in the January 26, 2018 edition of the Wall DOUG FRENCH Street Journal. That piece and others he wrote for the Mobile Register and WSJ have been cobbled together to form his book, “Under Water: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare.” Dezember bought his home near the Gulf Coast at the wrong time, given that a divorce, job offers in other cities, hurricanes, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and a housing crash would be forthcoming. He was a homeowner at 28 and happily a renter at age 38. “We are the Foreclosure Generation,” he writes. Only 52 percent of 38 year olds are homeowners these days. For those born in the 1950’s 61 percent of 38 year olds owned, while those born in the 1960’s, 63 percent were owners. The author’s struggle provides just one of the various storylines which run through the book, written in clean, journalistic style. He doesn’t walk away, but in considering it, he weighs the pros and cons that many in 2009 and beyond considered with mortgages totaling greater amounts than their home values. In Alabama, unlike California, lenders can pursue a borrower for the deficiency between what a home sells for at auction and the note amount. Dezember admits that his ex-wife might have been right when she wanted them to walk away and dare the bank to chase them. The moral question of strategic defaults is the subject of my book “Walk Away.” Most interesting is Dezember’s chronicling of the boom, bust, and chicanary of the high rise condo development and sales business, which is just a couple murders, and some courtroom drama, short of reading like a John Grisham novel. Having been a lender to real estate developers, THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 10 Commentary: Merrill Matthews taxes. The Real Looting Has Shifted to We are disappointed, however, that nixing the negotiations for now means there is no pandemic-related liability reform, which was one of the Washington most helpful proposals. As the recent jobs report documented, companies are hiring again. No wonder prominent Democrats have been unwilling to criticize the And companies might be hiring even more if they were convinced that looting that has plagued so many large U.S. cities. They were planning to trial lawyers didn’t see their efforts to open safely as cash cow to be do some looting themselves—of taxpayers. milked. We’re glad that President Trump and his coronavirus relief package Whether Trump should have jumped into executive-order overdrive is negotiators, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief another question. of Staff Mark Meadows, were willing and able to walk away from the If his four executive orders were essentially an effort to force hold up. Democrats, concerned they might not get any credit for helping struggling As Trump said after his failed discussions with North Korea last year, Americans right before an election, back to the table, then it might be a “Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.” reasonable tactic. This latest round of coronavirus relief negotiations was another one But IPI strongly opposed President “Pen and a Phone” Obama’s foray of those times. into pushing out questionable, if not unconstitutional, executive orders Democrats thought they were holding all of the cards and could when he couldn’t get a Republican Congress to do his bidding. We warned extract a $3 trillion raid on the taxpayer. Republicans thought a $1 trillion at the time that it would open the door for future presidents to double raid was enough. down. And here we are. To be clear: The reason Democrats are so willing to spend an extra $3 For our part, if the Democrats are not willing to cut their demands trillion, on top of the roughly $3 trillion Congress has already authorized dramatically, then no deal is better than an outrageously expensive one. in four separate bills, is they believe they will have a stronger case for Another $3 trillion in spending is bad; $4 trillion in new taxes is worse. raising taxes under President Joe Biden, who has laid out a plan for nearly MERRILL MATTHEWS $4 trillion in new taxes. Merrill Matthews is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy In short: A vote for higher coronavirus spending is a vote for higher Innovation in Dallas, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @MerrillMatthews. THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 11 Commentary: Robert Romano Is Joe Biden Trying to Lose the But the truth is, Democrats take blacks for granted every single election. It’s clear as day, and certainly reflected in Black Vote Or What? Biden’s analysis that African-Americans don’t have “different attitudes about different things.” And in Biden’s sense of Is former Vice President Joe Biden trying to lose the African- entitlement that by virtue of being a Democrat he is owed black American vote in November, or what? votes or else “you ain’t black.” In an interview with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Aug. 6, Biden was once the protégé of the late Sen. Robert Byrd Biden said the African-American community was not diverse (D-W.Va.), who served as Senate Majority Leader from 1977- with “different attitudes about different things.” 1981 and again from 1987-1989 with Biden’s support. Byrd who “What you all know but most people don’t know, unlike once chaired a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, was the epitome the African-American community with notable exceptions the of the Democrats’ long history of embracing racial segregation. Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with Biden, true to form, under Byrd’s tutelage, famously opposed incredibly different attitudes about different things,” Biden busing of black students to schools in white neighborhoods by said, drawing criticism for suggesting black Americans think supporting a measure prohibiting the use of federal funds by uniformly. Byrd, which passed into law in 1976. President Donald Trump immediately took to Twitter to blast That is a history that President Trump may be able to take his opponent, writing, “After yesterday’s statement, Sleepy Joe advantage of. In 2016, Trump only garnered 8 percent of the Biden is no longer worthy of the Black Vote!” black vote in the CNN exit poll, but now he’s making a bid to Biden’s gaffe was just the latest in what is becoming a increase that number substantially in 2020. pattern of very derogatory statements towards black Americans In June, according to YouGov, Trump’s approval among on the campaign trail. African-Americans increased from 12 percent to 18 percent On May 22, Biden declared that black Americans couldn’t amid his law and order response to the riots that were triggered vote for President Trump, saying, “if you have a problem by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t And in early August, Trump’s support among blacks jumped black.” from 10 percent to 12 percent, according to the Market Research During a meeting with black mayors in Georgia last year, Foundation. Biden said the problem in the black community was parents Plus, Trump has a story to tell, with action on criminal were illiterate, saying, “parents can’t read or write themselves,” justice reform including signing the First Step Act in 2018 according to the New York Times. and implementing Opportunity Zones to engage in urban On Aug. 5, Biden even told CBS News reporter Erol Barnett, revitalization. a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, that And, prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, black unemployment being asked if he would take a mental cognitive test would be had reached a record low of 5.4 percent in Aug. 2019, according “like saying to you before you got on this program, would you to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, making the Trump economy take a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not? What you do the most equitable ever. you think, huh? Are you a junkie?” In 2016, Trump’s message to African-Americans was “what Suffice to say, if any Republican running for public office do you have to lose?” in supporting his candidacy. Now the had made a single statement like this, the uproar would be question is what they have to lose in opposing it, and in 2020, deafening, with accusations of racism and calls for the party to the answer may be a lot. withdraw its nomination. ROBERT ROMANO But, Biden largely gets a free pass. One might chalk that up Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at to media bias and surely that’s part of it. Americans for Limited Government. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 12 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 13 THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 14 Commentary: Chuck Muth And if all five win – in addition to the ouster of tax-hiking Assemblyman Chris Nevada Conservatives Can’t Fix “The Weasel” Edwards by conservative Pledge-signer Annie Black in District 19 – conservatives should have the votes to oust RINOs Roberts, Tolles and Leavitt from their leadership positions and replace them with conservatives. the Democrat Problem until They They should also have the votes to fire the entire incompetent, wishy-washy, heads-up-their-butts political and legislative caucus staff/consultants and replace Fix the RINO Problem them with conservatives who understand both the philosophical AND political aspects of running a minority caucus. “Jessica” of the sent out another of the GOP’s Oh, and there’s one other race that can help boost the number of conservatives incessant fundraising emails this morning, this time clanging her tin cup for dough in the Legislature… to support 5 unidentified Republican candidates running for the state Assembly. While Roberts and Tolles don’t have a general election opponent, Leavitt (AD- The pitch opens with the following… 23) does. And for a variety of reasons, he’s the “worst of the worst.” A RINO “The Nevada Republican Assembly is the super minority right now, and if cancer on the caucus who thinks he’s Karl Rove but is more like Foster Brooks we would’ve had the majority, AB4 would have never been rammed through by (ask your grandma). Democrats the way it was. We HAVE to take back the State Legislature and we Now, in addition to a Democrat in his general election race, there’s also a true need to start with the .” conservative option: Bill Hoge, who is running under the Independent American She continued… Party (IAP) banner. “Putting it bluntly, if we don’t fill the Assembly with more conservative And Hoge’s not just a name on the ballot. He’s the real deal. A rock-solid Republicans, we’re going to keep losing in a big way.” conservative who years ago served in the California State Assembly (don’t worry; OK, lots to unwrap here… he’s a refugee, not a missionary) who has actually managed campaigns for other First, AB4 – which Jessica failed to explain, as though the average Nevadan conservative candidates in the years since. knows what AB4 means the way they know what CIA, FBI and IRS means – was He’s got skills. the vote-by-mail/ballot harvesting bill passed this week. So now you know. He has also, unlike Leavitt, signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Secondly, the Nevada Assembly is in the super-minority right now, just 13 out Now consider Leavitt… of 42 seats, for two reasons… The FIRST thing Leavitt did after winning the seat in 2018 was storm into the 1.) When the GOP controlled the governor’s office and both houses of the caucus and demand that Assembly Republicans stop trying to repeal the Commerce Legislature in 2015, they used their majority, not to shrink government Tax. And it’s been all downhill from there. and cut taxes, but to pass the largest tax hike in state history. Taxpayers His American Conservative Union (ACU) rating for the 2019 session was a responded accordingly at the polls. pitiful 63%. 2.) The political brains of the Republican Assembly Caucus are incompetent, Then there’s Leavitt’s “Endorsement” page on his campaign website. It’s a at best, and over the past two election cycles have lost numerous races they “Who’s Who” of tax-hiking RINOs, including… should have won. • Former Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, who supported the largest tax hike in Thirdly, it’s true that “if we don’t fill the Assembly with more conservative Nevada history Republicans, we’re going to keep losing in a big way.” But that’s also the problem. • State Sen. Joe Hardy (who enjoys the distinction of being the only Of the 13 super-minority GOP members of the Assembly caucus, only three, incumbent legislator to have voted for both the 2003 then-largest tax hike maybe four, can be characterized as dependably conservative. The others, almost in Nevada history, as well as the 2015 largest tax hike in Nevada history) as often as not, consistently vote with the Democrats on important bills, giving • Former Senate Majority Leader “Tax Hike Mike” Roberson, who shoved them “bi-partisan” political cover. the largest tax hike in Nevada history through the State Senate in 2015 Republicans who vote like Democrats are worse than Democrats who vote like • Former Assembly Speaker John Hambrick and former Assembly Majority Democrats because it ruins the GOP brand and confuses voters. Leader Paul Anderson, who shoved the largest tax hike in Nevada history Worse, the three Assembly members leading the caucus’ political operation through the State Assembly in 2015 – Tom Roberts, and – are all card-carrying RINOs • State Sen. Scott Hammond, who voted for largest tax hike in Nevada (Republicans in Name Only). And the caucus’ executive director, Eric Roberts, history probably should be sued for political malpractice. • Soon-to-be-former Assemblyman Chris “The Weasel” Edwards, who Case in point: In the first special session last month, Democrats put forward a voted for the Commerce Tax in 2015 before voting against it “resolution” calling for a federal taxpayer bailout of the $1.2 billion (and counting) • Former Assembly-critters James Oscarson and Melissa Woodbury, both of budget hole created by the #SisolakShutdown. whom voted for the largest tax hike in Nevada history And EVERY Assembly Republican voted for it! • State Sen. Keith Pickard, the only Republican who, in the July special Which political Ensteins in the caucus thought this was a brilliant “strategery”? session, opposed the mining tax before supporting it before opposing it No wonder voters are confused as to what exactly Republicans supposedly again (yeah, he’s reliable) stand for. How can you blame Democrats for bad bills when Republicans vote • Democrat Henderson Mayor Debra March and former Democrat Clark right along with them? County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow Now, there IS a silver lining in all of this… In addition, he’s been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and the Southern Nevada There are, indeed, five Assembly races that are competitive and up for grabs Building Trades unions. in November. Birds of a feather. And all five of the GOP nominees who won their primaries are conservative Look, conservatives can’t fix the Democrat problem in the Assembly until they candidates who have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising taxpayers fix the RINO problem in the Assembly GOP caucus. they will “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.” They As such, the objective in November isn’t to get a Republican majority in the are… Assembly – a virtual impossibility this election – but to get a conservative majority • Assembly District 02 (Clark): in the Republican Assembly Caucus. • Assembly District 04 (Clark): Richard McArthur So Bill Hoge for Assembly District 23 is my first personal endorsement for the • Assembly District 29 (Clark): Steven DeLisle 2020 general election. • Assembly District 31 (Washoe): So let it be written; so let it be done. • Assembly District 37 (Clark): Andy Matthews CHUCK MUTH THE PENNY PRESS,AUGUST 13, 2020 PAGE 15

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