Statement on False Angle/NRSC Attacks on Obama’s Cleveland Remarks
LAS VEGAS – In response to the false and misleading attacks by Sharron Angle and her allies at the NRSC regarding President Obama’s remarks today in Cleveland, Reid spokesman Jon Summers issued the following statement:
“By selectively using the President's remarks, Sharron Angle is confirming beyond all doubt that she will do nothing to help create jobs in Nevada. If voters want a Senator who will work to help the private sector diversify Nevada's economy and create jobs, they have only one choice. Sen. Reid fought to protect 22,000 private sector jobs at CityCenter, cut taxes for businesses who hire unemployed Nevadans, and is bringing good-paying clean energy jobs to our state. Sharron Angle has confirmed she would do none of those things. Angle believes workers thrown out of their jobs by this recession are ‘spoiled.’ Sen. Reid thinks they need jobs.”
In fact, just this afternoon, Sen. John Ensign, one of Angle's top supporters, said he absolutely believes it’s his duty as a US Senator to do everything possible to create jobs and bring industry to the state of Nevada:
Ensign: “…should a U.S. Senator use our office to try to help attract jobs to the state? [And] I actually, I use my office that way, I kind of like using my office almost as a chamber of commerce, in other words to talk to people like Microsoft, to talk to big companies and whatever and if say you’re taking a look at the state of Nevada.”
Sharron Angle strongly disagrees with Sen. Ensign, and has made crystal clear on numerous occasions her extreme view that it’s simply not the job of a US Senator to fight for the jobs of Nevadans or work to bring industry to our state.
Simply watching President Obama’s remarks from his most recent visit to Las Vegas makes clear that he and Sen. Reid agree on the role of a US Senator in creating jobs for their state:
Obama: “Now, my attitude, and Harry's attitude, is that if an American company wants to create jobs and grow, we should be there to help them do it. So that's why I'm urging Congress to invest $5 billion more in these kinds of clean energy manufacturing tax credits, more than doubling the amount that we made available last year. (Applause.) And this investment would generate nearly 40,000 jobs and $12 billion or more in private sector investment, which could trigger an additional 90,000 jobs.”
Statement on False Angle/NRSC Attacks on Obama’s Cleveland Remarks
LAS VEGAS – In response to the false and misleading attacks by Sharron Angle and her allies at the NRSC regarding President Obama’s remarks today in Cleveland, Reid spokesman Jon Summers issued the following statement:
“By selectively using the President's remarks, Sharron Angle is confirming beyond all doubt that she will do nothing to help create jobs in Nevada. If voters want a Senator who will work to help the private sector diversify Nevada's economy and create jobs, they have only one choice. Sen. Reid fought to protect 22,000 private sector jobs at CityCenter, cut taxes for businesses who hire unemployed Nevadans, and is bringing good-paying clean energy jobs to our state. Sharron Angle has confirmed she would do none of those things. Angle believes workers thrown out of their jobs by this recession are ‘spoiled.’ Sen. Reid thinks they need jobs.”
In fact, just this afternoon, Sen. John Ensign, one of Angle's top supporters, said he absolutely believes it’s his duty as a US Senator to do everything possible to create jobs and bring industry to the state of Nevada:
Ensign: “…should a U.S. Senator use our office to try to help attract jobs to the state? [And] I actually, I use my office that way, I kind of like using my office almost as a chamber of commerce, in other words to talk to people like Microsoft, to talk to big companies and whatever and if say you’re taking a look at the state of Nevada.”
Sharron Angle strongly disagrees with Sen. Ensign, and has made crystal clear on numerous occasions her extreme view that it’s simply not the job of a US Senator to fight for the jobs of Nevadans or work to bring industry to our state.
Simply watching President Obama’s remarks from his most recent visit to Las Vegas makes clear that he and Sen. Reid agree on the role of a US Senator in creating jobs for their state:
Obama: “Now, my attitude, and Harry's attitude, is that if an American company wants to create jobs and grow, we should be there to help them do it. So that's why I'm urging Congress to invest $5 billion more in these kinds of clean energy manufacturing tax credits, more than doubling the amount that we made available last year. (Applause.) And this investment would generate nearly 40,000 jobs and $12 billion or more in private sector investment, which could trigger an additional 90,000 jobs.”
