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To: SiouxPal who wrote (75254)	8/3/2006 5:55:09 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362284

Have you ever seen someone get caught red handed doing something very wrong and used the old tired excuse "I was just kidding." It's kind of expected for low level bush cultists like the dummies here but when it comes from the republican party it is a different thing. Despicable is a good way to describe it. _____________________**********_______________________ State GOP resorts to tricks, Democrats say By MOLLY BALL REVIEW-JOURNAL Click image for enlargement. A campaign mailer sent to Democrats over the weekend said it was from a political action committee called Searchlight. But it didn't have anything to do with Sen. Harry Reid, who heads the Washington, D.C.-based Searchlight Leadership Fund. Quite the opposite: The mailer listing judicial candidates came from officials with the Clark County Republican Party. Advertisement Click here for W Las Vegas! Democrats on Monday called the flier an attempt to deceive Democratic voters. But the Republicans behind it said it was just a bit of harmless fun and did not violate any rules. The heading on the flier said, "We know that the judicial candidates listed below share our desire to protect the rights of minorities and the individual from the majority. We support their election to office and ask that you cast your vote for them as well." It then lists exclusively Republican candidates for the offices of Nevada Supreme Court, Clark County District Court and justice of the peace. The mailer is identified as coming from Searchlight Group PAC. Reid was born in the Nevada mining town of Searchlight and is the author of a 1998 history of the town titled "Searchlight: The Camp That Didn't Fail." County Republican Party chairman John Hambrick said he and party Executive Director Tim Robison put the mailer together. The PAC, he said, was "formed to do things like this." "The purpose was to hopefully put people we believe to be more conservative in their viewpoints before a part of the voting public that might not otherwise consider them," Hambrick said. The mailer was sent to Democrats considered likely to vote in the primary based on their voting records, Hambrick said. He said the flier was not an attempt to deceive or confuse. "We wanted to have some fun," he said. "It was tongue in cheek. Why not?" Before sending the mailer, lawyers confirmed that it did not violate any laws or regulations, Hambrick said. Las Vegas attorney Joe W. Brown, the state's Republican national committeeman, is listed as the Searchlight Group PAC's resident agent. Brown said Monday he had nothing to do with the mailer but did not see anything wrong with it. "I don't see any deception here," he said. "I don't think Democrats are that dumb." Kirsten Searer, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said the flier probably was not illegal, but it was unethical. The party sent an e-mail alert to its members Monday about the mailer. "Most Nevadans associate Searchlight with Sen. Reid," she said. "By calling it Searchlight and putting in language about protecting the rights of minorities, they were clearly trying to make it look like it came from Sen. Reid." Democrats who received the flier might be duped into voting for the listed candidates in the mistaken belief that they were favored by Reid, she said. "This is further proof that Nevada Republicans will do anything to get elected," she said. "We believe our candidates are strong enough to stand on their own. They don't have to try to fool people to get elected," she said. One Democrat who was confused by the flier on Saturday was Sandy Hogan, wife of Democratic Assemblyman Joe Hogan. "When I first saw it, I thought it was from Harry Reid," Sandy Hogan said. Had she not already voted, she might have taken the mailer's suggestions, although her husband probably would have set her straight, she said. "I think it's despicable," she said. "Republicans should be embarrassed." reviewjournal.com