J. Patrick Coolican, formerly a reporter for The Seattle Times, has covered police, politics, higher education, and suburban cities. Most recently at The Times, he worked as content director/blogger for the newspaper's election web site. He also worked as a roving enterprise reporter and covered such issues as the impact of endorsements on elections; gay divorce; new treatments for soldiers returning from war, and a school district's practice of handcuffing students. Coolican also has worked for the Manchester (Connecticut) Journal Inquirer and the Keene (New Hampshire) Sentinel. He graduated cum laude from an honors program at the University of Notre Dame structured around the Great Books canon of Western philosophy, science and literature.
Bob Beers. The finest Republican in the state of Nevada.
Obama digging in, planting grass roots in Nevada
By J. Patrick Coolican
Published in the Sun on June 1, 2007
CARSON CITY — When the crowds stop cheering, and all the books have been sold and signed, and the squeals of young women go silent, Barack Obama will have to get down in the mud of electoral politics.
To win Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus, the Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois must gather caucus-goers and get them to schools, community centers and other caucus sites to declare their support, often in the face of opposition.
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Clinton makes the Vegas rounds
By J. Patrick Coolican
Published in the Sun on August 10, 2007
Sen. Hillary Clinton showed many sides of her well-developed political profile during a long day of campaigning Thursday in Nevada, weaving together big themes with policy details, occasional humor and Clintonesque empathy.
Never did she look more at home, though, more effortlessly herself, than when counterpunching on health care.
"more effortlessly herself"
eech, I'm gonna throw up.
Pressed in a live in studio interview with John Ziegler on KFI, Ann Coulter said she'll vote for Rep Hunter but believed the nominee will be only Rudy or Mitt. She criticized Rudy a lot, believing Hillary will defeat him easily.
In nothing short of bizarre, she dismissed Sen Thompson as not being as conservative as Rudy or Mitt because they had bigger challenges of being "conservative" in liberal states. She clearly has something against Fred but neither I nor the host could really get her to come clean.
Bob Beers is a good guy, I saw him recently at Bill Laub’s memorial service.
South Carolina and Neveda hold their primaries on January 19th. They’ve got a combined toatal of 81 delegates. I think 1230 is needed for the nomination. So this is a good endorsement.
I’ve met Bob Beers, I believe he’s a good man, also one of the most libertarian NV senators, sorry to hear he’s not going to endorse Ron Paul. This is from an interview with him:
Many of the stances you take have a distinct libertarian flavor. What differentiates you from the libertarians?
The one thing I’ve learned is that labels really are meaningless. We have pro-business Republicans and anti-business Republicans. I’ve been a Republican for a long time and certainly disagree with some of the stances that Republicans take, particularly at the national level. Certainly here at the state level, the 2003 tax-and-spend hike would be a big one. I don’t know about libertarian and Republican. I think I’m a Nevadan and individual liberty is why we have established government. The protection of individual liberty is what the mission of government should be and everything should derive off of that role. I’ve been in business so I have that experience as well.
Bob Beers has endorsed Fred Thompson. A worthy endorsement, IMHO.
Thompson is being “Jammed” by the Huckabee MSM push.
It is all about protecting Giuliani.