Sharrron Angle plays "Catch me if you can" with local media
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Las Vegas Sun: Sharron Angle addresses media for 3 minutes on taxes then bolts
By Anjeanette Damon (contact)
Thursday, July 22, 2010 | 2 a.m.
SPARKS - After more than a month dodging the press, Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle on Wednesday invited reporters to an event intended to amplify her campaign message that lower taxes and less regulation are the only ways to spur economic recovery.
It was the first time since her primary victory that she had agreed to mingle with the media. Political observers speculated it might signal a shift in Angle’s post-primary strategy of using the media solely as fundraising mechanisms.
Alas, Angle’s more media-friendly moment was over almost as soon as it began.
In the warehouse of a family-owned clean diesel manufacturer in Sparks, Angle delivered a three-minute speech on her desire to permanently repeal the estate tax. When invited by the final speaker to stay and answer a few questions, she turned on her heel and rushed out a back door with a small cadre of staff members.
Reporters, including one who is six months pregnant, chased after her, calling out questions on unemployment benefits and other topics she has largely refused to address.
Brief though it may have been, the event was one of her first efforts to illustrate her philosophy that government’s role in the economy is largely to stay out of the way of the private sector.
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During the event, Angle stated that the tax would cost 13,000 jobs in Nevada. “That is a true mistake to not go forward with something that can save at least 13,000 jobs here in Nevada when we are suffering under an unemployment rate of 14.2 percent,” she said.
Patten said the Holtz-Eakin study puts the Nevada jobs loss at 9,995 jobs. And Angle offered nothing to support her 13,000 figure.
She didn’t stick around long enough to field any follow-up questions about it.
“We’re running behind, I’m sorry,” her spokesman, Jerry Stacy, muttered as Angle stared at the ground, ignoring questions.
Then she was gone.
Much more, including an analysis verging on a debunking of her estate tax and jobs claims balanced by an interview with the owner of the clean diesel plant who supports her stance.
IMHO, She’s ticking off the local press, or she wouldn’t be getting coverage like this. Ducking questions has now become the story-and it’s only going to become worse between now and November.
Hat/Tip to nonnie9999 at Hysterical Raisins for the manip and story.