PELOSI LOOK-ALIKE SHELLEY BERKLEY(could she be worse?) GETS REID SUPPORT IN NEVADA - WAKE UP NEVADA!!!
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2012/06/10 10:29:17
Reid puts his Nevada campaign machine to work for Senate hopeful Shelley Berkley;
LAS VEGAS — Just two years after fending off one of the nation’s toughest Republican challenges to win reelection to a fifth term, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid could find his political fate determined once again by voters in his own Nevada back yard.
Reid won’t be on the ballot in November. But as the Democratic leader fights to retain his majority in the Senate, with control likely coming down to just a handful of key contests, the Silver State offers a rare opportunity for a Democratic pickup in a year when the party is mostly playing defense.
So the soft-spoken, hard-knuckled Reid is now activating the vaunted Nevada Democratic machine he has helped build on behalf Rep. Shelley Berkley. The seven-term Las Vegas congresswoman is challenging Reid’s junior partner, Republican Sen. Dean Heller, for his job.
Heller and Berkley are both expected to breeze through Tuesday primaries. Then the general election will begin in earnest, pitting Heller against Berkley — and, only slightly less publicly, against Reid himself.
“He’s kind of like the godfather here,” said Chuck Muth, a Nevada political operative who works with conservative candidates. “If Harry Reid says ‘Shelley Berkley is important to me,’ then everyone knows that Shelley Berkley better be important to them.”
LAS VEGAS — Just two years after fending off one of the nation’s toughest Republican challenges to win reelection to a fifth term, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid could find his political fate determined once again by voters in his own Nevada back yard.
Reid won’t be on the ballot in November. But as the Democratic leader fights to retain his majority in the Senate, with control likely coming down to just a handful of key contests, the Silver State offers a rare opportunity for a Democratic pickup in a year when the party is mostly playing defense.
So the soft-spoken, hard-knuckled Reid is now activating the vaunted Nevada Democratic machine he has helped build on behalf Rep. Shelley Berkley. The seven-term Las Vegas congresswoman is challenging Reid’s junior partner, Republican Sen. Dean Heller, for his job.
Heller and Berkley are both expected to breeze through Tuesday primaries. Then the general election will begin in earnest, pitting Heller against Berkley — and, only slightly less publicly, against Reid himself.
“He’s kind of like the godfather here,” said Chuck Muth, a Nevada political operative who works with conservative candidates. “If Harry Reid says ‘Shelley Berkley is important to me,’ then everyone knows that Shelley Berkley better be important to them.”
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