Need a piece of cheese for that whine NV? Same religion that brought us Harry Reid - from a very low population area eh?
Same mormon 'network' that in the last primary went 90+% to RINO romney?
“Nice piece of cheese?”
You seem to have a thin grasp of the facts. I state a fact and you’re putting some spin on it. You can say everything you say about Mormons about Jews, for example, and I’ll bet you’re too much a coward to do it. How much of the Jewish population votes for Jews in many elections? Could be anywhere from 40 to 90%. So where are you on calling out that network, hmm?
Now, as to Reid, whom I’ve met in person and taken pains to embarrass in person at political appearances, unlike most of you who just like to take potshots from behind the safety of your keyboards:
Where Reid was brought up was Searchlight, a two-bit mining town outside of Vegas. Before the late 70’s, people should remember that Vegas was a much smaller town than it is today. It took until 1990 for Vegas to exceed 250K in population. The growth of Vegas since 1990 has been nothing short of explosive. Reid was already climbing the political ladders since well before ‘90.
Before Howard Hughes bought up most of Vegas and moved there in a crazy seclusion, it was a town run by Jewish gangsters from back east. Guys like Oscar Goodman’s buddies, as well as the Jewish political establishment that runs about half of Vegas. Today, you see the remains of that back-east establishment, with the likes of Steve Wynn, Shelly Berkeley (congresswoman from Vegas), Sheldon Adelson (owns the Sands), the Greenspuns (own the LV Sun newspaper, a media group, several smaller publications/magazines, etc).
Into this, Reid comes of age politically after Hughes started his campaign to “buy up” Vegas. What most people don’t realize is that when Hughes did this, he had as his emissaries a bunch of Mormons to actually handle the actual physical details of implementing his orders, and Hughes’ inner circle and their associates became known in Nevada as “the Mormon Mafia.”
As much as I’d like to be able to tie Reid to Hughes’ Mormon Mafia, I can’t seem to find the evidence to do it. What I can say is that Reid has used his connections with the Democratic establishment of old and his large family and circle of associates to put his kin into all manner of helpful positions to him throughout Vegas, Clark County and Nevada state government by rubbing shoulders with the old Jewish network that ran/runs Vegas. I’d say offhand now that Reid is better at playing the Democratic network than any Mormon network, because inside Nevada’s observant Mormon community, he’s widely known as a Jack Mormon, and observant Mormons don’t often vote for Jacks. The people who keep re-installing Reid into office are hispanic, black and jewish liberals and welfare grifters out of Vegas and Clark and Washoe County.
About Romney and the Mormon network, I’ll say this:
Romney had the Olympics in SLC in ‘02 as the feather in his cap last time. That was a big economic boost for SLC and Utah, and the games ended up actually turning a profit, unlike many other places that have hosted the Olympics in the past who end up in the hole. Romney’s face was plastered EVERYWHERE on the Olympic PR material, and he made a BFD about how much he and his wife donated to the effort/cause.
Basically, any gentile looking in on the ‘02 SLC games came away with the feeling that it was a huge made-for-Romney media event. The Mormon community took it as a huge boosterism for the LDS church, who was able to get their licks into the economic pie as well.
Coming off that, Romney had huge name recognition in Utah politics and national politics in the area around Utah. I would have been very surprised if Romney didn’t get the sort of LDS support he got in ‘08 considering the huge “Love Me!” campaign he ran as part of the ‘02 games.