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Posted on 10/05/2010 9:42:26 AM PDT by FTJM
While Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have been going toe to toe (they are tied in the polls) there is a “Tea Party of Nevada” candidate, Scott Ashjian, who wants his 15 minutes of fame. The problem for Angle is that Ashjian’s 15 minutes of fame could cost her the race.
There was no “Tea Party of Nevada” until Ashjian created it and the media relished the novelty. He has never been to a Tea Party event and has not been endorsed by any Tea Party out there so the left loves that he could help give Reid six more years in the U.S. Senate by people mistakenly voting for the “Tea Party” candidate. Speculation has it that Reid is behind Ashjian’s candidacy, but that has not been proven. All Ashjian can do in this race is save Harry Reid. Certainly nobody with any real Tea Party affiliation would ever want that to happen.
Now there are the audio tapes.
The Chairman of the “Tea Party of Nevada,” Syd James (it is basically a party of two), arranged a meeting with the Angle camp under the premise that Ashjian would drop out and endorse Angle (Ashjian’s name would still be on the ballot). Ashjian has claimed that it was Angle who arranged the meeting, but James assures me that it he arranged it and he’s sorry he did.
Ashjian wore a wire into the meeting and covertly taped the conversation with Angle. James said he had no idea that the meeting was taped and would’ve never done it had he known Ashjian was going to tape it. If you listen to the tapes, understand their surreptitious nature and understand the context was that Angle thought Ashjian had come bearing gifts of an endorsement. If Angle made a mistake it was trusting Ashjian, but since James arranged the meeting, the Angle camp was trusting James, who is a highly respected doctor in Las Vegas.
As a result, James feels used by Ashjian and has told me he will resign from his position with the “Tea Party of Nevada” and endorse Angle. When’s the last time you heard of the head of one political party (if you want to call the “Tea Party of Nevada” a party) resigning to endorse another party’s candidate less than a month before the election?
If anything, these covert tapes show off Angle’s conservative “chops” and that everything she has said on the campaign trail is exactly what she believes behind closed doors. You don’t find that often in politics. She believes the Republican establishment has lost its way on fiscal and Constitutional issues and that a new breed of politicians will set things straight in D.C. Thank you, Scott Ashjian, for wearing that wire and confirming that we can trust Sharron Angle.
This we also know, somewhere Harry Reid is smiling because he knows that every second that we are discussing personal issues in this race, he does not have to talk about his failures in Nevada. We have the worst unemployment in the nation and Reid says that it is a Senator’s job to help create jobs. Isn’t that reason enough for Reid to lose his job?
Also, back on the audio tapes, imagine some of the private things Reid said in meetings when he was trying to get Obamacare passed. Wouldn’t you love to hear the conversations that led to the “Louisiana Purchase” and the “Cornhusker Kickback?” The stuff we know publicly is bad enough.
as for me, this dirty trick just got me to donate to angle, again!!!
New poll Angle +3(Fox)
Thank you Doctor James.
I think Angle would have won, but since the "head of the Nevada TEA Party" resigns and backs Angle, that should be another 1-2% of the vote to help fend off the fraud that you know dirty harry and the acorns or pecans or walnuts will be sure to use.
bump
http://www.scottashjianforsenate.com/
He also tried to play the game of suing Angle to stop her from using the term “Tea Party” in any of her ads, instead claiming he and his made up political party had some sort of right to that term.
He also has attacked the Tea Party Express.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Jon Scott Ashjian is Harry Reid Mole in Tea Party Disguise? Scott Ashjian Tea Party Pretender?
http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/03/jon-scott-ashjian-is-harry-reid-mole-in.html
Have you heard about this? Jon Scott Ashjian is running against Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) on the Tea Party of Nevada ticket, but appears to have no backing from the movement. Tea Partiers say they’ve never heard of him, never seen him at a Tea Party meeting...the message to Ashjian: “Get Lost.”
Ashjian has an IRS lien on his property due to an unpaid tax bill for $200,000+, and one of his numerous small businesses, A&A Asphalt Paving Company is defending a lawsuit claiming the company passed a bad check in October 2009 for $981. Ashjian closed the company a month later. He will be in court later this month defending his contracting license. This from the Las Vegas Sun:
In Sun interviews, Ashjian said the IRS lien and the Contractors Board were news to him, which he said is not surprising fiven his sprawling business enterprise, which he said includes 27 properties.
There are reports referring to Ashjian as a “wealthy” businessman - and apparently one who refuses to pay his tax bills.
Sue Lowden, considered to be the Republican with the best chance of unseating Reid, says it is “a little strange. I don’t know who this person is. He’s never been involved with anything that I’m aware of in this state.”
Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams says Ashjian is in the race to split the ticket and hand the race to Harry Reid. Source: The Daily Caller.
This quote is attributed to Williams, which seems to suggest that Ashjian has made some very controversial remarks, not welcome or acceptable to Tea Partiers:
“Case in point, those people who call themselves Tea Partiers while engaging in racist or homophobic behavior, Williams wrote. “Same goes for those who misrepresent themselves for the purposes of personal gain or in some misguided effort to confuse the general public.”
http://www.nvsos.gov/SOSCandidateServices/AnonymousAccess/ReportSearch/ReportSearch.aspx
..or with the FEC.
He is either not spending anything or he is holding off reporting until the latest possible moment. (to hide something?)
He's a tool in any case....
Ping #8
This guy is real fishy.
Something else fishy, a Jon Ashjian is also running as a “tea party” candidate in a state senate race. Is that a popular name there or is this strange?
http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=33&recordid=452
VIDEO: Scott Ashjian Tries To Explain Himself On Jon Ralston’s Face To Face
http://www.reid-b-gone.com/?p=2935
Wall Street Journal Gives Scott Ashjian A Verbal Tongue Bath
http://www.reid-b-gone.com/?p=2900
Quote:
He wears a platinum Rolex and slicks his hair back, Mad Men-style. He got his start in car washes, went into asphalt and now has a company that floods the Internet with flattering information about people worried they look bad in Google searches. He keeps a Playboy-themed pinball machine in his office, drives a $160,000 black Mercedes with a night-vision system, and carries a pistol under his suit jacket.
He flat out admits he is counting on Nevada voters to be uninformed:
Yet his is an odd campaign. He doesn’t give speeches or hold rallies. He doesn’t knock on doors or buy TV time. Mr. Ashjian says he has raised about $5,000 from donors and paid for the rest himself.
He is, he admits, counting on angry Nevadans to check the box next to the man identified as the Tea Party candidate. Mr. Reid and Ms. Angle “are spending tens of millions of dollars going after each other, and we’re just sitting back and going up in the polls,” Mr. Ashjian says.
Nevadans already have a senator who is a jerk and won’t talk to them, so I don’t see what we need with Scott Ashjian.
Everyone knows Ashjian was put up to this because Reid thought he was going to face another Armenian, Danny Tarkanian.
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