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Pointedlymad John Getter Pat Choate licensed from: 702-418-0433 eFax: 201-304-0355 Rich Gast Tom Mitchell Penny Press NEVADA USA 16 PAGES VOLUME 9 NUMBER 18 JANUARY 19, 2012 Nevada On Front Line Of Property Rights Battle By THOMAS MITCHELL The latest skirmish comes in liberty, or property, without due versus some vague concept of Contributing Editor the form of a case before the U.S. process of law; nor shall private communal benefit — protecting Supreme Court in which the EPA property be taken for public use, “wetlands” — as arbitrarily defined There’s a struggle in the land. has blocked an Idaho couple from without just compensation.” by the bureaucrats. As the briefs It is a fight for superiority between building a home on a half-acre, But The New York Times, in the case show, the definition of the property rights of individuals $23,000 lot in a subdivision near bastion of collectivists editorialized, “wetlands” includes completely dry and “public interest.” Priest Lake. There are already “Allowing challenges to E.P.A. land anywhere near a puddle. several homes between the lot and orders before they are enforced This case is reminiscent of the the lake. would give landowners the ability Kelo v. New London decision six Commentary When Mike and Chantell to delay in correcting the harm years ago. Sackett obtained a building permit they caused. Compliance orders The New York newspaper’s and began to fill the lot to prepare are useful because they allow the editorialists praised the 5-4 court Nevadans have been on the for construction, the EPA stepped agency to press landowners to decision to allow the “power of frontline, voting overwhelmingly in, wielding the cudgel of the Clean negotiate about mitigating harms.” eminent domain to spur development in 2008 for the Peoples’ Initiative Water Act, ordering the couple to Negotiate? Negotiations take was a welcome vindication of cities’ to Stop Taking Our Land (PISTOL) return the lot to its original state place between parties who can ability to act in the public interest. — a constitutional amendment immediately and demanding a fine afford to say, “No.” The EPA has the It also is a setback to the ‘property blocking use of eminent domain of up to $37,500 for each day they power to dither, delay, demand, fine rights’ movement …” to acquire private property for a failed to comply. and litigate until any private party The “public interest” was more private business — and rejecting in The EPA action was clearly a is bankrupt. That is not negotiation. tax money for the bureaucrats of 2010 a ballot initiative that would violation of the Fifth Amendment’s This is a clear contest between New London, Conn. The city seized have poured water down the barrel Takings Clause, which says no the right of individuals to use their the homes of several individuals of PISTOL. person shall “be deprived of life, private property as they see fit and turned it over to Pfizer for a Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Nevada ERIC BING PAGE 5 Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: MATT BARBER PAGE 7 No man's life, liberty or AL THOMAS PAGE 10 Ross Miller Courting property are safe while the legislature is in session. ROBERT BRADLEY PAGE 11 Failure As A Legacy —Judge Gideon J. Tucker CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 PETS OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 4 Your Rights Belong To You—Not The Feds Continued from page 3 research center and associated restaurants and retail stores, because that Murray Rothbard, a former UNLV economics professor, once argued, would generate more tax dollars. (As testament to their hubris, today the “Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of ‘rights’ for such land is a vacant lot.) ‘human’ rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to private On one Sunday, a Review-Journal editorial, along with property. And yet, on the contrary the concept of ‘rights’ only makes columns by myself and Vin Suprynowicz, excoriated the Kelo decision. sense as property rights. For not only are there no human rights which are The editorial called it an “un-American expansion of government power not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and at the expense of individual liberty.” clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used I said it was a “nullification of the Fifth Amendment’s provision as the standard.” barring taking of public property except for public use … just because the Rights accrue to the individual, not to some amorphous collective city thought it might gin up more tax revenue.” of seething humanity. But far too many people are willing to make the Suprynowicz said the court “gutted our property rights like a flopping individual subservient to the collective — along with their rights, liberty fish,” and suggested the town of Weare, N.H., condemn Justice David and property. Souter’s family home and give it to a hotel builder. A disregard for private Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevadan. You may share your views with property undercuts all the other liberties and rights on which this nation him by emailing [email protected]. Read additional musings on his was founded and embodied in the Bill of Rights. blog at http://4thst8.wordpress.com.

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It may vary in colour, shape, size, cost and appearance. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 5 Commentary: Eric Bing news -- fully 70% of anti-retroviral retroviral drugs. countries, yet fewer than 5% of The Next Step HIV/AIDS drugs available in poor After the global HIV/AIDS women in these parts of the world countries are provided by the fund. rate of new infections exploded in will ever have a pelvic exam. in Fighting It’s up to the rest of the the 1980s and 1990s, experts were Meanwhile, every year there international community to pick predicting the disease would kill are some 1.4 million new breast up the slack. Given the uncertain off entire generations of people cancer cases worldwide. More Disease in the economic climate, it’s all the more in poorer countries. PEPFAR was than 450,000 women die from the important that we are focusing our a cornerstone in the international disease annually. Developing energies and dollars on programs effort to check the spread of the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon is a that will work, sharing resources epidemic. Program officials, $75 million joint effort between World and maximizing the synergies across making a concerted effort not to the George W. Bush Institute, disease-specific infrastructures. trample local medical operations, PEPFAR, Susan G. Komen for the One of the world’s largest Fortunately, a large-scale model of worked in conjunction with state Cure, UNAIDS, and several major foreign aid organizations just an effective program already exists and municipal authorities to build companies. announced it will be forced to -- and it was started right here in the up medical infrastructure and It follows the PEPFAR playbook: make substantial program cuts this United States. address the health care challenges contribute vital medical equipment year. For hundreds of thousands of The President’s Emergency specific to local communities. to enable local primary care doctors people, the consequences could be Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) PEPFAR also worked closely with to improve diagnosis and treatment; lethal. was created by the George W. the Global Fund to jointly fund expand the availability of screening The Global Fund to Fight Bush administration and extended targeted anti-retroviral distribution and treatment services, and create AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by President Obama. PEPFAR campaigns in areas worst hit by this grass-roots education programs to announced in late November that has proven highly successful in disease. inform people of the nature and it had failed to raise the minimum addressing the global AIDS In large part because of PEPFAR, causes of these diseases. $13 billion needed to support epidemic by expanding the use the total number of people living This program specifically current operations. This is terrible and availability of topflight anti- with AIDS has essentially held focuses on improving integration steady over the past decade, rather between screening and treatment of than escalating out of control as HIV with that for cervical and breast credible estimates predicted. Today, cancer. Cervical cancer and HIV 33 million people have the disease. are tightly linked; HIV weakens Tips Of Our Cap Meanwhile, the rate of new HIV patients’ immune system and infections has dropped by nearly makes the body more susceptible and 20% and an estimated 7 million to infections that can contribute to people with HIV infections are cervical cancer, which is four to currently alive because they now five times more common in women Bronx Cheers have access to anti-retroviral drugs. living with HIV than in those who The positive effects of are HIV-negative. Cancer of the PEPFAR aren’t confined to health women’s reproductive organs can The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: care. Unfortunately, AIDS often be highly stigmatized in many debilitates people in their most cultures. The Nevada National Guard's 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion productive years. Effectively The headline goal of Pink which returned from a year long deployment in Afghanistan where they combatting HIV/AIDS has enabled Ribbon Red Ribbon is to reduce built, installed and maintained the largest communication network in the millions of workers to support their total cervical cancer deaths among war zone. The battalion's overseas commander, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Hansen, families and fuel economic growth. women it treats by 25%. said looking over the room at the soldiers' families and friends "gives me Rather than cutting back on its An age of austerity need not goose bumps. Today is a great day. We're back on American soil. To say investments in preventing disease be an era in which we abandon the I'm proud of them would be grossly understated." We could not have said around the world, the international fight against disease and premature it better ourselves. community should build on death in the developing world. By PEPFAR’s successes. learning from proven aid campaigns, The new Pink Ribbon Red the international community can The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer Ribbon initiative does precisely ensure that efforts to address the And A Bouquet of Weeds To: that. It purposefully operates within world’s worst scourges continue the PEPFAR structure to more undiminished. Nevada Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, who has re-opened the funding effectively address the rising rates of ERIC G. BING dispute between a real University, UNR and a high school with ash trays, two other diseases devastating sub- Eric G. Bing is Senior Fellow and UNLV. UNR has real academic pursuits which require real funding. UNLV Saharan Africa and Latin America Director of Global Health at the has a school of hotel management which is not a college curriculum. The state -- cervical and breast cancer. George W. Bush Institute. doesn't need more funding to give out degrees in "beverage management". More than 85% of total cervical cancer cases occur in developing THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 6

From The Publisher...OPINION NV Secretary Of State Failing At His Job Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller seems intent on office no longer takes money from your checking account. using his constitutional office, which is largely ministerial in The DMV does, but not the Secretary of State. nature, to feather his political nest and future. Now for $50, the office will let you buy a “certificate of good This is not an unusual state of affairs since we have, in standing” online, but not the copy of the original form. the past, tweaked now Senator for doing the same thing when he held the office, but in Miller’s case, it This may not seem like a big deal, but the fact is that seems to come at the expense of doing business in a down most of the people who use the Secretary’s services are economy. small businesses and here’s a shocker: these are the same people who create 92% of the state’s jobs. The single largest job the Secretary of State has in Nevada is serving as the registrar of corporations and other business Why would you even change a single thing that makes entities which the state charters and keeps track of. these folks lives slightly easier?

Some years ago, our legislature, in a rare move of genius, Ross Miller is a legacy. decided to make the state so business friendly that we would challenge Delaware for the place to be incorporated. His father was a former Governor and his name is And it actually worked, mostly as intended. whispered in hushed tones as having a potential political future. Maybe, even as a replacement for Barack Obama. When the economy tanked, the legislature was actually (Although, without trying to insult chimps, that’s not a tall able to raise some additional money to throw away by order.) raising the fees for those services slightly. People like that are often the least connected with reality. So far so good. They hold press conferences and they sue people they don’t like (Chuck Muth) trying to use the state’s might and Heller had hired some fairly good information technology checkbook to do their own bidding. A classic example is people and it was amazing what you could get done at the unbelievably bad job that Miller’s friend, Cathy Masto the Secretary of State’s office in a quick session on the has done as Attorney General. She, too, is a legacy. internet. No angry state employees to bark at you. And you didn’t even have to think about how much money you It appears that Miller is going down the same legacy path. were going to have to pay our pension system to keep those employees in a better standard of living than you will Its almost like pledging a bad fraternity. have in retirement. Miller should be ashamed of himself, but shame is something The other day, I needed to get the articles of incorporation in especially short supply in Carson City. from one of my companies. I used to be able to do that on the internet for a few bucks which the state took out of our When folks in his office read this they will undoubtedly company checking account. shake their heads and say, “big deal.”

I looked and looked and finally, I called. The nice lady Well, clowns, (who happen to be on our payroll) it IS a big (whose pension is bigger than mine and underfunded) told deal. me I could fill out a form which I could download from the internet and they would mail it to me. And it makes me wonder what else they aren’t doing.

Also, for some inexplicable reason, the Secretary of State’s FRED WEINBERG THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 7 Commentary: Matt Barber audience for the last 15 minutes of the game was 31.6 percent. This only Hating Tim Tebow added to the mystique. So big was the story, in fact, that major news outlets like CNN ran the I grew up in Denver and am admittedly biased. I’m a Denver Broncos text of John 3:16 in its entirety: “For God so loved the world that he gave fanatic. In the Mile High City, the Broncos are more than just a football his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but team; they’re an institution. have eternal life.” Everybody loves a comeback. Former Broncos quarterback John The attention that Tebow’s bold Christian faith has drawn to the Gospel Elway — one of the greatest QBs in NFL history — had comebacks in message has secular “progressives” and other God-deniers tied in knots. his DNA. Since he retired in 1999 after back-to-back Super Bowl wins, American Atheists, a New Jersey-based group that promotes religious Denver fans have been jonesing for that regular shot of adrenaline Elway cleansing from the public sphere, says that Tebow is “full of cr*p.” provided week in, week out. “Tebow takes religion and injects it into the mix and divides the fan Enter Tim Tebow. In the category of, “Holy cow, can he actually do base,” complained David Silverman, the group’s president. it?” no Broncos QB since Elway has delivered like Tebow has. He feels “[Religion] injects the divisive force into football,” he continued familiar. This is what Broncos fans expect. We don’t do steady. We prefer (because, absent religion, football is just a touchy-feely snuggle fest). up and down, high and low until that improbable rocket launch to victory “Why in the world are we talking about religion when we are talking about in the final seconds of the game. football?” he demanded. Will Tebow end up an NFL great like John Elway? That remains to be Of course, Tim Tebow is merely doing what Jesus asks of his followers: seen. Opinions are all over the place. But what is certain is that Tim Tebow “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him is more than just a sports phenomenon. He’s a cultural phenomenon. before my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32) For starters, Tebow’s very existence is somehow controversial. He’s a The problem is that secular “progressives” don’t want Christ walking pro-life testimonial. He’s been pulling off comebacks since before acknowledged before anyone, period; and they endeavor to shut down or he was born. Pam Tebow, Tim’s mother, courageously chose to carry baby mock anybody who tries. Tim to term despite doctors’ recommendations that she abort him. During the Broncos’ regular season loss to the Buffalo Bills, for You may recall that before Tim went pro, the Christian group, Focus instance, “progressive” troglodyte and pseudo-intellectual funnyman Bill on the Family, commissioned an innocuous TV ad that ran during the 2010 Maher tweeted about the game, encapsulating the left’s visceral hatred Saints-Colts Super Bowl game. It briefly told the story of the Tebows’ pre- for Tim Tebow in 140 characters or less: “Wow, Jesus just [expletive natal struggle. The word “abortion” was never even uttered, but a positive deleted] #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is portrayal of childbearing was all it took. tebowing, saying to Hitler ‘Hey, Buffalo’s killing them.’” And so began the left’s hate affair with Tim Tebow. Radical feminist Jesus addressed the Bill Mahers of the world — past, present and groups, media-types and liberal pundits alike lost their collective noodle future — on more than one occasion. In John 15:18-20, for instance, He even before the ad ran. reminds His followers: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Erin Mattson, vice president of The National Organization for Women me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it (NOW), told ABC News that Tim’s story of survival was “really quite is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. offensive. … This ad is hate masquerading as love!” she barked. Tim That is why the world hates you.” wasn’t dismembered alive and scraped in pieces from his mother’s womb, Those who belong to the world do indeed hate Tim Tebow. He you see. stands for much of what our postmodern popular culture despises: sexual The New York-based Women’s Media Center launched a failed purity within the bonds of natural marriage, the sanctity of human life, censorship petition drive to pull the ad, framing it as an “attack on choice.” selflessness, personal charity, humility and much, much more. Get it? Pam Tebow chose alright; she just happened to make the wrong I mean, Tim Tebow has never even been arrested for drug possession “choice,” and dared to share about it publicly. or sexual assault, for crying out loud. We simply can’t allow children this But as a Denver Bronco, Tim Tebow’s profile has grown exponentially. kind of role model. So too has the left’s hatred for him. So, does God care about who wins NFL football games? Probably This is due in large part to his very open Christian faith. After each not. Does he care about those who play, watch and love football? game, Tim begins by thanking God: “First and foremost, I’d like to thank Unquestionably. my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Win or lose, no matter what happens with the rest of the Denver And who hasn’t heard of “Tebowing,” wherein one drops to a knee in Broncos football season, one thing is for sure: people will keep talking prayer? about Tim Tebow. And when people are talking about Tim Tebow, they Then there’s Tim’s favorite Bible verse, John 3:16, which he’s known can’t help but talk about the profound faith that drives him both on and to wear painted in black swaths under each eye. After the Broncos’ recent off the field. electrifying playoff win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime, John In the meantime: Go Broncos! 3:16 was reportedly the most popular search term on the Internet. MATT BARBER Remarkably, during the game Tebow passed for precisely 316 yards Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in and averaged 31.6 yards per completed pass. The television viewing constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 8 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 9 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 10 Commentary: Albert Thomas As gold was discovered in the Western areas of the America it drew Should You Own Gold? populations from the East. When the shiny metal was found in Sutter’s Mill in 1848 that gold rush brought thousands to the Pacific shore. Gold Some say you should. Others say you should not. was responsible for California to be part of the U.S. Then another gold Let’s see what a few thousand years of history has shown and then rush went to the Yukon in Alaska.. you be the judge. Gold was looked upon as an art treasure more than as money, but its It is not known when gold was first discovered on this planet. It is possession was a sign of wealth. Phoenician merchants struck a gold/silver spread geologically all over the world. The first recorded mention was coin, but it was not until Roman times that coinage came into popular use. 3100 B.C. by the founder of the first Egyptian dynasty. Gold plated Rome struck a 90% gold coin and as times became hard they debased the caverns and tunnels have been found in Central America and believed to coin with more and more lead until the people refused to accept them. be more than 5,000 years old. This is mentioned in Jon Grey’s book Dead The countries of the world traded with each other based on the value Men’s Secrets. of gold. They slowly retreated from this until in 1971 President Nixon When the Spanish arrived in Central America they found goldsmiths took the U.S. off the gold standard. Paper “dollars” were declared as had mastered the most advanced artisan techniques such as granulation, “good as gold” and made the stand for world trade. All countries started pressing, hammering, inlay and lost wax methods. printing their own currency and set a fictitious gold price. Gold is an easy metal to work as it melts at a relative low temperature. In 1980 gold rose to $850 per ounce. I was on the exchange when gold It was many years before copper and iron ores were smelted into usable was first allowed to be traded and in the pit on the opening day. It later fell tools and weapons. to $$252 and has since rallied to almost $2,000/oz. Gold has been considered god like and powerful. It is associated with Gold is true wealth to be accumulated as a defense against paper immortality and wealth. money. No one knows what the price of gold will be tomorrow, next week Man seems to have a genetic association with gold. From earliest or next year. Today it is insurance against inflation. times it was instantly recognized as “special”. It is mentioned in the Bible Remember the old saying, “He who has the gold rules”. in Genesis 2:10-12 as “the land of Havilah, where there is gold: and the AL THOMAS gold of that land is good”. Al has a new ebook (32 pages) available on Amazon for 99 cents that What is the “value” of gold. That is the question that has never been explains the Golden Cross and the Death Cross. These are well known answered. Man has sought it and held it many times at the cost of his life. methods of determining long term trends in the market. If you only learned It is accepted all over the world even among the most primitive tribes as one method of technical analysis this would have kept you out of the 2000 something to be possessed. and 2008 crashes and will keep you out of the next one that is coming soon. The title is Never Lose Money In The Stock Market Again. THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 11 Commentary: Robert L. Bradley New York -- with the tacit support of the White House -- has instituted White House on Energy Hot Seat a fracking moratorium and effectively prohibited exploration of the parts of the Marcellus that run under the state. As part of the newly-signed payroll tax cut bill, the White House has Again, the cost of currying favor with environmentalists? Jobs. 60 days to decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. According to the Department of Environmental Conservation, Marcellus This project has become a hot-topic political football as of late. Back development in New York could generate up to 80,000 new local positions. in November, the President’s team announced it would delay its decision Energy companies should have to comply with commonsense until after next year’s election. Officials claimed they needed more time to regulations to prevent environmental damage. And of course policymakers evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the $7 billion, 2,100-mile need to consider non-economic costs when deciding to approve major project to transport crude oil from Alberta, Canada to major American energy projects. refineries in the Gulf Coast. But politicking has now gotten in the way of good thinking. This Not content to wait until 2013, Republicans inserted a Keystone administration and its allies are holding up vital new energy projects -- and approval provision into the payroll tax extension. After some legislative it’s costing Americans new jobs. wrangling, the provision morphed into the 60-day window the White And if the oil is exported by tanker to destinations such as China, House is now staring down. Obama will have left the environment and the economy worse off. Lose- Whatever the eventual outcome, President Obama’s desire to delay lose rather than win-win -- now that would be monumental. this pipeline is just the latest example of his pernicious proclivity for ROBERT L. BRADLEY putting politics over sound policy when it comes to energy regulations. Robert L. Bradley Jr. is the CEO & Founder of the Institute for Energy The President simply doesn’t want to bare the political costs of Research and author of Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political deciding either way on Keystone until after his reelection bid. He’s wants Strategies (Scrivener Publishing and John Wiley & Sons). to remain non-committal. But organized labor, another one of Obama’s prized constituencies, is as disappointed as extremist environmentalists are elated. Canada’s oil will go somewhere. The market demands it. If not to the U.S. Gulf Coast -- as currently planned -- the oil could easily flow west, where China will pick it in tanker at a port in British Columbia. The Canadian government has already instituted rigorous protections to ensure the area surrounding oil extraction points aren’t damaged. And WE’VE GOT the State Department recently concluded a wide-ranging study of Keystone and determined that there were no potential environmental effects from the pipeline requiring further investigation. Shambling on Keystone might be smart politics -- but there’s no good YOUR BACK. policy reason to delay approval. And there is a huge cost of delay, which can be captured in just four letters: J-O-B-S. Keystone XL requires miles of pipe to be welded and installed, and at least 30 new pumping facilities to be constructed. American workers JOIN OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY AT would staff many of those operations. Indeed, if Keystone XL were allowed to proceed as planned, oil sands development and related operations would directly create thousands of new jobs. Tens of thousands additional positions would be created indirectly at businesses along the pipeline’s pathway. Text VETS to 69866 to get started. That same political strategizing driving the Keystone delay also undergirds the White House’s stance on hydraulic fracturing. Colloquially know as “fracking,” this technique has proven invaluable in extracting natural gas buried under the earth’s surface. It involves pumping a high-pressure mixture of water and sand into the rock surrounding deposits to free up gas for collection. In the Marcellus shale -- a massive reserve running from Ohio and

Pennsylvania into New York -- fracking is the only way for developers to DATA AND MESSAGE RATES MAY APPLY. get access to gas located deep underground. Unfortunately, policymakers high and low have succumbed to environmentalist alarmism on fracking. THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 12 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 13 THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 14 Commentary: Chuck Muth More to Tarkanian’s Win-Loss Record than Meets the Eye

Quite a nasty GOP primary battle is shaping up for Nevada’s new 4th congressional district between State Sen. and , which also features at least three other announced Republican candidates. In a pre-emptive shot at Tark recently, Cegavske tweeted, “I have won 6-straight elections. Danny has an 0-3 record. Enough said. I am in it to win it.” Sorry, but there is, indeed, more to say on this subject. Cegavske has won six straight elections; that’s true enough. But those races were for comparatively small state legislative seats (state assembly and senate) in Republican-friendly districts and with the advantage of incumbency. Danny’s first race and loss was in 2004 against Democrat incumbent state Sen. Mike Schneider in a largely Democrat district and in a race in which Schneider ultimately had to pay Tarkanian $150,000 to settle a defamation of character lawsuit. It was that ugly; it was that dirty. Still, Tarkanian only lost by less than 2,000 votes. Danny’s second race and loss was a statewide race for Secretary of State in 2006. But before he got to the general election, Danny first had to defeat a very credible candidate, who was a former Republican Party chairman, in the primary. And to be fair, if Cegavske is going to count Danny’s 2010 loss in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, then she should count this primary victory as a win, as well. That would make his actual record 1-3, not 0-3. But I digress. Yes, Tarkanian lost to Democrat Ross Miller, son of a former Nevada governor, in the general election. But in addition to running against Miller, the very conservative and highly respected Janine Hansen was also on the ballot as the IAP candidate, taking votes that otherwise probably would have gone to Danny. Which brings us back to that 2010 statewide GOP primary race for U.S. Senate. Yes, Danny lost. But he lost in a race with not one, not two, not three…but four credible, viable, well-funded Republican opponents (as well as some others). It was an extremely tough race in which Danny came in a close third to Sharron Angle and Sue Lowden. And in case anyone reading this thinks I’m just a big Tarkanian fan who’s shilling for Danny, you obviously aren’t aware of our relationship during that 2010 Senate race (I was a Lowden supporter). Let’s just say relations between the two of us back then would have to warm up just to be considered frozen. It was that bad. But the notion that you can just look at Tarkanian and Cegavske’s win-loss records without context and declare that the candidate with the better record is the stronger candidate in the CD4 race is simply not true. Enough said. CHUCK MUTH Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and publisher of the Muth’s Truths blog. He may be reached at [email protected] THE PENNY PRESS,JANUARY 19, 2012 PAGE 15 Pet Of The Week Adopt This Pet ! Every week in Nevada, someone is trying to BUDDY screw us. Call Most of the time, we 702-672-7204 elected that someone.

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