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EDITORIAL: For state Senate
Michael Roberson a strong candidate
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Democrats took control of the Nevada Senate in 2008, picking up two seats to gain a 12-9 majority. But with the electoral landscape tilting toward the GOP this year and the implementation of term limits, Republicans have hopes of reclaiming the upper house.
District 5 is perhaps the most closely watched race. Incumbent Democrat Joyce Woodhouse is fighting to keep her seat against Republican Michael Roberson.
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District 5 challenger wants incumbent to return campaign contribution
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CARSON CITY -- The Republican challenging incumbent state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse for the District 5 seat in Clark County wants her to return $7,500 given to her campaign by an organization led by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford.
Senate candidate Michael Roberson said Wednesday that Woodhouse, D-Henderson, needs to demonstrate that she and her office "are not for sale to special interests and lobbyists" by returning the money given her in May by the Nevada Senate Democrats' Political Action Committee.
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| GLENN COOK: Preparing for Democratic smear campaign |
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State Sen. Barbara Cegavske has been called a lot of things by Democrats. By Nov. 2, the fiscal conservative probably will have been called everything.
Use your imagination. Tax cheat? Why not. Puppy stomper? It's catchy. Baby dumper? Hey, if it sticks.
Fellow Republican Michael Roberson, a candidate in state Senate District 5, has never held elected office. He's challenging a vulnerable incumbent, Democrat Joyce Woodhouse, in an anti-incumbent cycle.
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| GLENN COOK: 'The unions truly still don't get it' |
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State Senate candidate Michael Roberson sat down this month to fill out a public employee union endorsement questionnaire. The Republican had an idea that his politics weren't in line with those of organized labor. Then he read the questions, and he was immediately reminded of what's at stake in the 2011 Legislature."My answers were no, no, no, no, no," said Roberson, who faces Nate Schlumpf in June's primary for District 5 and the right to take on incumbent Democrat Joyce Woodhouse in November. "Then I realized I had no reason to answer the survey because they'll just use my responses in a negative mail piece against me."It's unbelievable. The unions truly still don't get it. ... They just keep pushing, and they don't get it."
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| Roberson Inks Tax Pledge on Tax Day at Tea Party Rally |
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(Michael Roberson) – Yesterday, on Tax Day, I pledged to the taxpayers of Senate District 5, and to all Nevadans, that if elected, I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase your taxes. For too long in this state, politicians have told us one thing – and then done another. They have made us promises – and then broken our trust. The result of which is that we don’t believe any of them.
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| Sen. Woodhouse, Why Do You Love Tax Hikes So Much? |
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(Roberson for state Senate campaign) – On Saturday, incumbent Nevada State Senator Joyce Woodhouse hosted two town hall meetings as part of a “listening tour” to kick off her re-election bid. Michael Roberson, leading candidate running to unseat the incumbent, posed some questions for Senator Woodhouse, now that it appears she seems willing to hear what voters have to say about her voting record.
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| Sen. Woodhouse feels heat from GOP |
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It’s been happening for months — indeed since the 2009 session ended. Democrats have known that state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse would be the GOP’s No. 1 target — perhaps the only seat in the upper house that Republicans have a chance to take. So Woodhouse has been — with a little help from her friends — doing more events and trying to keep in contact with her constituents. Now she has announced she will do four — count ’em — town halls in April. That just does not happen — unless someone is worried about his or her re-election.
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| Care about Nevada’s budget mess, education policy? Legislative races are the ones to watch |
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CARSON CITY — While a high-profile U.S. Senate race captures the public’s attention, the candidates most likely to shape Nevada’s future are running largely unnoticed in a few competitive Assembly and state Senate contests. The stakes are huge: Address a multibillion-dollar deficit (Raise taxes? Cut spending even more?). Pursue education reform. Redraw Nevada’s political boundaries for the next decade.
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| NEVADA POLITICS: GOP targets state Senate Republicans see chances, pursue recruiting drive |
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The Nevada Republican Party is undertaking a major drive to retake control of the state Senate and pick up more than half a dozen Assembly seats, helped by 17 term-limit retirements in both houses and a recession-sparked feeling of voter disappointment with the Democratic Party in power.
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| Sen Joyce Woodhouse Files: |
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I’ve finally met her GOP challenger for Senate District 5, barrister Michael Roberson, and I liked him, but I’m confident he thinks I’m a weirdo. Her seat is the easiest seat for the GOP to pick up because she has no political instincts and is a lousy campaigner and NVDEMS will have to spend hundreds of thousands just trying to get out the vote in this district.
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