Nevada secretary of state to run for Congress

[Freddie Stubbs]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller said Wednesday he'll run for the U.S. House seat that fellow Republican Jim Gibbons is expected to vacate to run for governor.

Heller's announcement follows comments last week by outgoing Assemblywoman Dawn Gibbons, Jim Gibbons' wife, that she will run for the congressional seat if he seeks the governor's office.

Gibbons has announced a steering committee to evaluate a bid for governor in 2006 to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn, who can't seek a third four-year term.

Heller praised Gibbons' service in Congress and said he "fully supports" the congressman's likely gubernatorial race. Gibbons was just elected in November to his fifth House term, representing Nevada's sprawling Congressional District 2.

more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/jan/12/011210064.html

[davidinalameda]

1. explain something to me

if Gibbons wins--he'll be in Carson City and if his wife wins, she'll be in Washington

is this another example of Republican family values

having the spouses live 3000 miles away from each other?

[s-cubed]

2. Heller keeps lying: he keeps saying NV's voting machines all had

paper trails, but when I asked him point blank, he admitted Las Vegas did not. Also, he claimed to have prevented exit polls in NV. Get rid of this one!

[top_mosker]

3. stop him!

And then there is heller's love affair with marijuana. He's managed to block the petition twice now, on technicalities. I've also heard the man speak when G.W. came to town. Combine all this with the bio on his site: http://sos.state.nv.us/geninfo/bio.htm

and the only word that pops into my head is "assclown."

If he is running, we need to do everything possible to stop him. No more megolomaniacs in our government, please. He is just one more politician running as a well-liked-family-values-go-out-drinking-with-the-boys-and-watch-football kind of guy when in reality he is one more tool of the fascist agenda of the ultra right.

[Emit]

4. But here's the latest on that initiative...

<<snip>>
In a major victory, Federal District Court Judge James Mahan issued an injunction that ordered Secretary of State Dean Heller to immediately send the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana's (CRCM's) initiative petition to the legislature when it opens on February 7. The legislature will have 40 days to pass the initiative into law or to let it go before Nevada voters in November 2006.

The lawsuit stemmed from a ruling by Attorney General Brian Sandoval.
Last September, CRCM began collecting signatures for its 2006
initiative and filed more than 69,000 valid signatures on November 9.
As late as November 19, Heller said that an initiative would need only 51,337 valid signatures -- a number based on the voter turnout for the 2002 general election -- to qualify for the ballot. Yet on
December 20, Sandoval issued an opinion indicating that CRCM was
required to meet a massively higher signature target based on the
November 2004 general election turnout -- meaning that the initiative
failed to qualify.

In his ruling, Judge Mahan said that Heller's processes and procedures are flawed, and that the 2002 general election figures should have applied, not those of the 2004 election. He further noted that Heller and Sandoval's decisions violated CRCM's due process and First Amendment rights.

To read more about the court case, visit:

http://regulatemarijuana.org/home/

The first leg of the battle is over. Now we need to gear up for what
will be a tough and high-profile campaign....
<<snip>>

Take that Dean Heller, you weasely little
F#$%....

[Emit]

5. scubed, what does this mean

"he claimed to have prevented exit polls in NV"

What did he do? I'm aware of the misinformation he professes with the e-voting machine and paper trails, etc. But, what are you referring to here? Just curious. I might be meeting with him myself soon, as a witness to obtain some info, and I'd like to know more about Heller and his involvement with this election.

[NVMojo]

6. Hi Emit! It was nice to meet you in person!!!

here's a story on what Heller did in Nevada ...

this one is about when he started his campaign against election exit polls:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/1996/oct/31/505240265.html?Heller%20exit%20polls

and here is an article just prior to the Nov. 6th election about Heller and his anti-exit poll strategy...


http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Oct-20-Wed-2004/news/25041510.html

[NVMojo]

7. just a reminder of how great Dean Heller is to work with!!!

snip ...


Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller faxed the candidates a letter on
Wednesday with the cost estimate and advising them the money would have
to be paid by 5 p.m. Thursday.

Heller also told the candidates to identify specific precincts where a
recount would be conducted, and identify specific voting machines that
would be audited.

The secretary of state also said the candidates requested copies of the
election-result abstracts for all 17 Nevada counties, but they'd have to
get them from the clerks or make other arrangements for Heller's office
to ship the "voluminous" documents.

"The secretary of state, again, was not cooperative, was obstructionist
in our view, quoted an initial price of $500,000 as a deposit that would
be required to even begin a recount," Finley said.

"Secondly, they were very uncooperative about providing the basic data
that would be necessary to select machines for a sampling process that
their state law provides for."

He said part of the price was the cost of flying in Sequoia voting
machine experts from outside Nevada "to come in and essentially conduct
the recount."

Heller spokesman Steve George denied that the secretary of state had
been uncooperative, adding, "There are procedures that must be followed.
... If that's uncooperative, that's the law of Nevada."

Bush won Nevada with nearly 50.5 percent of the popular vote statewide.
Democrat John Kerry drew 48 percent, according to results certified by
the state Supreme Court. Badnarik got 3,176 votes, or 0.38 percent. Cobb
got 853 votes in Nevada, or 0.10 percent.

Badnarik said he requested the recount in Nevada after hearing reports
of registration fraud and voting machines not providing verifiable paper
receipts.

An audit by the secretary of state's office found no problems in the
state's new voter-verifiable receipt electronic machines. Nevada is the
first state in the nation with widespread use of the machines.

The new machines were used in 16 northern and rural counties, and during
a 10-day early voting period in the state's most populous county, Clark
County including Las Vegas.

Older electronic voting machines without printed receipts also were used
in Clark County.

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