Smelly putz Jon Porter reverts to form

It's the eve of the seventh anniversary of Nein Won Won, and all of America is asked to step back from partisan politics for a moment and reflect on the marvelous spirit of unity that the nation felt in the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks.

Jon Porter has chosen to commemorate in true Jon Porter fashion -- by launching the very first televised attack ad (via Sun) against Dina Titus in the hotly contested CD3 race.

So that's one thing that probably should be pointed out here and now and for the record lest there be any confusion on the subject later on: When it came to unwarranted bullshit attacks, Porter the lazy backbenching War Party incumbent started it.

It's the usual Porter fare -- lies and bullshit and twisted all the hell out of context. For instance, the ad says "with Nevada families struggling, she voted to triple her government-funded pension."

A couple points. In a statement responding to the ad, Titus contends that she was ineligible for pension increase in question, and in fact voted to repeal it.

Still, Nevada's wingnut brigades absolutely positively hate pension programs for public employees (the forces of Republican greed have very nearly eradicated pension plans from the private sector, so the wingnuts think it's only fair that retirement security be stripped from public sector employees too). So this whole battle over increasing, let alone "tripling" anybody's "government funded pension" must have been one hell of a donnybrook up in Carson City, no? Surprised it wasn't in the news more.

Oh wait. It was. In 1989!?!

Yes, the Gleaner's biased and all. But holy crap, Titus has been in office since like, forever, and Porter has to dredge back nineteen years to find something to hit her with? WTF? When erstwhile Porter trainer Little Mikey Slanker slithered off to D.C. with Hairdo McWedgeshot to be a darling of the beltway consultant set full-time, did he take every oppo researcher in the Southwest with him, and Porter is left with one filing cabinet that Mikey forgot to load up in his Escalade on his way out of Hooterville?

Perhaps in his next ad Porter can slam Titus for not speaking out strongly enough against the stimulus package put forth by President Clinton. In 1993.

Porter's new ad does make one foray into the current century. He hammers Titus for voting for the same 2003 tax increase package that more than two-thirds of the Legislature, including several Republicans, also voted for, and that a Republican governor signed into law. (If anybody knows anybody who knows former Gov. Kenny Guinn, ask them to ask him if he isn't getting a little sick and tired of his Republican "friends" kicking him around all the time, and if maybe it isn't time that he stands up for his legacy before his assclown Republican "friends" completely dismantle it. Heading up "Republicans for Titus" would be a good start.)

But Porter's ad finishes up by again settling into the way-back machine, slamming Titus for voting for a bidness payroll tax in ... 1991.

Titus counters that in 2003 she tried to exempt small bidnesses from a hike in payroll taxes, but Republicans wouldn't hear of it. Titus should add, but probably won't, that it if wasn't for the negligible payroll tax, big bidness in this state would hardly be paying any taxes at all -- and bidness certainly pays nowhere near as much on a percentage basis as working families who have to pay sales tax on everything -- so damned right she voted to tax their sorry asses back in the day and why do assclown right-wing kooks like Porter keep insisting that the only people who should have to pay taxes are poor people when they're buying their kids back-to-school clothes?

Oh well, this race is off to about as glorious a start as anyone might have expected from the Porter campaign, and of course there will be many, many more examples of complete and total nonsense coming from the putz about town over the next several weeks.

The Gleaner is not a high-paid political consultant and so of course any free advice from this quarter should be taken with a hearty "you get what you pay for" caveat. Having said that, Dear Sen. Titus: Bust out the band footage, now, so voters have no doubt whatsoever what Porter has been doing while America has committed colossal blunders abroad and the economy has collapsed at home.

Oh -- the lipstick is just in honor of the McCain campaign's politics of distraction. Come to think of it though, Obama's right. You can't put lipstick on a pig. Well you can. But it's still a pig.

Comments

[rRdoD too]

Is it true that Porter has accepted money from at least one government contractor even though that is illegal under federal law?

Is Porter a violator of federal law?!

[rdoDtoo]

Porter not only ACCEPTED campaign money from a federal contractor, he did so in very close proximity to the date he sent the letter to the House Chairman asking for the earmark that would benefit said company, the company principals and their wives who donated! Reid didn't take/get a dime and either did Berkley for the same request...Jon Porter DID receive checks and he cashed the checks and he spent the money!

Earmark request sent in/donations received! Porter performs as expected!

Porta Jon, like the rest of the hard-right cabal, is so desperate to hold onto power will literally say anything and literally do anything to keep his hold on power.

Except be honest and govern.

[Gleaner]

Dear rdoDto and/or rRdoDtoo,

Having so obviously been laying in wait for an opportunity to drop your startling expose, well thanks and all, but really, it's okay to send some links, or provide some dates, or even the name of the contractor in question, etc. There's really no need to be so mysterious and coy. It's just a congressional campaign. Jeesh.

[kickboxermomma]

Porter-A pig by any other name is still a pig.Too bad it's illegal to vote on elections in Nevada. I wonder what the point spread for Porter to lose would be on the Big Board.

[Michael Green]

1989? Which marriage was Porta Jon the family values Republican on in 1989?

[LatinLady]

Well it's obvious that Little Jon is scared and that's why he has to go negative off the bat, because Dina is a formidable opponent who can beat him and he knows it!!!

can't open the ad linc

[d'Oh!]

federal contractor? is that illegal? which one? huh?

d'oh! all info was put in comments section this morning and immediately it was put into Gleaner's "spam folder" for review.

[David]

As long as we're dredging through ancient votes in the Lege, how about when little Porta Jon, true to slimy form, was carrying water for a bill that would have revoked the damages verdict against the Las Vegas Hilton for its role in the Tailhook scandal? Maybe his campaign motto should be: "Ass-kisser Today, Ass-kisser Tomorrow, Ass-kisser Forever!"