'Harry Reid Votes': New Anti-Harry Reid Group Launched By GOP Primary Loser Danny Tarkanian

(AP) -- A vanquished Republican candidate is making a comeback in Nevada's U.S. Senate race, but not on the November ballot.

Businessman Danny Tarkanian, who finished behind fellow Republican Sharron Angle in the state's June primary, has formed a political committee to launch a website and run radio and TV ads dissecting Sen. Harry Reid's voting record.

It won't be flattering. The Las Vegas-based group -- Harry Reid Votes -- will remind residents of the "poor decisions" Reid has made for Nevada, Tarkanian said Monday.

"The votes that he has been making haven't been a big focus of the race," Tarkanian said. "We feel the majority of Nevadans will feel they were not good votes."

The group formed last week joins an array of independent political organizations pouring millions of dollars into the Nevada race, which polls show is a dead heat.

A spokeswoman for Tarkanian's group, Audrey Mullen, said the website will have interactive features that will allow visitors to take quizzes on Reid's voting record and answer the question, "How much is Harry Reid like you?"

The organization was formed under a section of the federal tax code that allows it to raise unlimited amounts of money from individuals, unions or corporations.

Tarkanian is the son of legendary University of Nevada, Las Vegas, basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian. The new group will also give Tarkanian a visible public platform, which could benefit him politically if he decides to make another run at public office.

Meanwhile, Reid's campaign began running a new TV ad criticizing Angle's education agenda, including a proposal to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. "She's just too extreme," a narrator says, reprising a central theme of Reid's campaign.

Angle, a former teacher, has said decisions about education should be made at the state and local level, not in Washington.

Comments

[dax49]

10:23 AM on 08/26/2010

typical republican, always striving for the low road!

[montn2]

10:04 AM on 08/26/2010

hey buster -- you lost -- go back to your rock until next season.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

01:03 AM on 08/26/2010

Does Danny slobber as much as his father that he has to chew towels too?

[UpNorthGuyWI]

11:39 PM on 08/25/2010

The leader of the Senate and the leader of the Democrats is going down. It reflects on how unpopular liberalism has become once America saw it in action again. Reid did do they right thing by coming out against the fake "community" center in NYC.

[thebuzzmanisone]

12:14 AM on 08/26/2010

still regurgitating what rush pumps down your throat huh upnorthguy how come u tea baggers have short memories

[dax49]

10:24 AM on 08/26/2010

maybe he will get as low as the republican party has gotten!

[scipio2009]

08:43 PM on 08/25/2010

The funniest thing about this entire race, in my opinion, is that even Republicans are refusing to come out for Sharron Angle, let alone acknowledge that Harry Reid is actually running against another candidate.

I'm honestly waiting for the day that someone comes forward with a pro-Sharron Angle pitch and does so without laughing.

[JJ889]

09:59 PM on 08/25/2010

And yet, Harry finds himself in a dead heat.

Quite a quandry for you to come to grips with.

[OGSal]

10:29 PM on 08/25/2010

Guess you'd be surprised who's "for" Harry Reid in NV!!
Notice... NO major business people have come out for Angle!

[dax49]

10:28 AM on 08/26/2010

Not as much of a quandry as the republican leadership has gotten themselves into, with a drunk like boehner and closet cases like graham

[interlude]

10:51 PM on 08/25/2010

Yep, that is curious. They're not for Angle but they're against Reid. Maybe they're going to sponsor a write-in candidate next.

[Tiggy]

11:36 PM on 08/25/2010

It's all about being an American Indapenant. www.lifeshapnin.com . For real change to occur, real change must happen!

[MiHi]

08:42 PM on 08/25/2010

Sharron Angle wants to get rid of Social Security.

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[vgirl1]

08:42 PM on 08/25/2010

Why is it okay for someone to refer to H. Reid as sleazy and get posted, yet I get moderated for saying Angle acts sleazely?

[JJ889]

10:00 PM on 08/25/2010

Poor spelling? No wait, poor grammar?

[ladyxx]

08:01 AM on 08/26/2010

Oh my, an English language educator.

[henrypapillon]

01:18 AM on 08/26/2010

Somebody doesn't want the conservatives to have hurt feelings. With all the funny business going on here do you get the feeling that there is some manipulation so that certain people are being promoted to community moderator status?

[vgirl1]

08:36 PM on 08/25/2010

Huffington Post when will you report on the K*O*C*H brothers - who they are, what they do, what companies make up their conglomerate and their danger to our democracy.

Time spent on investigating and reporting on this threat to our democracy and encouraging the democratic base to amass at the polls in opposition to these brothers and their would be take over of the American politic would be more beneficial than the usual rants we see against the incumbant Democrats from so many of the topical posts and interviews with other media.

[rak6748]

04:47 AM on 08/26/2010

Huffington Post, when will you report on GEORGE SOROS - who he is, what he does, what companies make up his conglomerate and their danger to our democracy.

Time spent on investigating and reporting on this threat to our democracy and encouraging the democratic base to amass at the polls in opposition to him and his would be take over of the American politic would be more beneficial than the usual rants we see against the incumbant Democrats from so many of the topical posts and interviews with other media.

vgirl1: Thanks for the template.

[mrman]

08:13 PM on 08/25/2010

I can't wait to vote for Harry Reid and send that nutbag Sharon Angle back under her rock.

[max08]

07:46 PM on 08/25/2010

i'd like to know where Sharron Angle was educated. Because whoever did that job is what NV has to stay away from.

[Duppy]

07:39 PM on 08/25/2010

Now it is time for MoveOn to jump in.

[nativemama]

08:22 PM on 08/25/2010

Donate!!

[LeeCalif]

06:46 PM on 08/25/2010

Sure ......... It was launched by Tarky ............ But it's funded by .................?

[BannedNBoston]

06:26 PM on 08/25/2010

Harry Reid is one of the sleaziest Him and Fienstein and Carl Levin and a few of the warmongers need to go!!

[Hollyse]

08:26 PM on 08/25/2010

I'll help!

[vgirl1]

08:40 PM on 08/25/2010

Angle is one of the most dishonest candidates, saying what is expedient based on the particular audience and having no real clue about anything.

She runs from the press and thinks the press should be her pawn and pimp for donations.

If such people of NV don't think that is sleaze then their ignorance is obvious.

[Tiggy]

11:40 PM on 08/25/2010

Wow, is she running with or against Harry? They seem so similar based on the descriptions rendered here.
Neither are fit to serve. For real change to occur, real change must happen. www.lifeshapnin.com to see real change.

[the964kid]

05:58 PM on 08/25/2010

Danny Tarkanian is such a chump even Sharon Angle beat him, what else do you need to know? GOP voters thought he was worse than Sharon Angle... think about that.

[nativemama]

08:25 PM on 08/25/2010

Sadly it appears during the general elections, the GOP voters would vote for a true elephant just so as to not let a Democrat win. They care less for the country and more for......

[larmarch5]

05:47 PM on 08/25/2010

Where is the $$$$$ coming from?

[Tiggy]

11:41 PM on 08/25/2010

Wall Street? Banks? The poor and middle class have nothing to donate so that leaves the rich and corporations. Unless of course they have started printing money just for these elections.