Reid Gains Republican Support in Nevada
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is one of the country’s most unpopular Democrats. He is also widely disliked in his home state of Nevada. But as he revs up his expansive, a href="http://buyviagraonlinefree.net/" style="text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c">search< and expensive, political machinery to try and win re-election against a powerful anti-incumbent wave, Reid is leveraging his leadership power to win support from unlikely quarters – the Republican Party.
Rusty Tybo, Republican mayor of tiny Wells, Nev., near Lake Tahoe, tells Washington Wire he is backing Reid because the senator helped his town secure $680,000 in grants to rebuild from an earthquake two years ago that left the downtown in ruins.
Frank Fahrenkopf, a Reagan-era Republican National Committee chairman, said that his current post as head of the American Gaming Association, whose biggest members are Las Vegas casinos, makes it a “no-brainer” to back Reid.
“My job is to protect the interest of my industry and the state of Nevada ,” he said. “Do I want to do that with the majority leader or a freshman Republican?”
Another senior Nevada-based Republican, Sig Rogich, who advised the Reagan and Bush I teams on media strategy, is working for Reid’s campaign – spearheading efforts to court more of his GOP cohorts.
Reid himself reached into the GOP ranks soon after tea party favorite Sharron Angle won that party’s bitter nomination fight in June, systematically calling down the list of donors who had backed Republican establishment favorite Sue Lowden. Lowden tells Washington Wire she began hearing from supporters the morning after the primary who had received calls from Reid, and a number of them were deciding to back him. (Lowden herself still opposes Reid, and recently sent an email to her donor list raising money for an anti-Reid political action committee.)
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