Nevada’s former 1st lady stumps for Reid
My News 4, 9/2/10 - Today a prominent Republican for Reid went before the microphones to hammer her former Republican colleague over education.
These Millennium Scholarship success stories left little doubt:
Brittany Breeler: "Sharron Angle's plan is just too dangerous for Nevada students."
Warren Dang: She's way too extreme and dangerous for Nevada."
Mark Triola: "In Sharron Angle's Nevada there would be no Millennium Scholarship."
And if that didn't drive home the point, then the reason the Reid camp staged the event, did.
Former First Lady Dawn Gibbons, a Republican - made her first public campaign appearance Wednesday in favor of Democrat Harry Reid.
Gibbons: "He loves his state and the citizens he represents; he cares about the Nevada of today and that of the future."
Gibbons and Angle are no strangers. They served together in the Nevada Assembly, and ran against each other four years ago in a Republican primary for Congress.
Gibbons: "That's when I began to get a glimpse of one of Sharron Angle's more damaging ideas: killing the Millennium Scholarship."
The scholarship was funded by Nevada's share of the huge settlement with tobacco companies. It has helped more than 20,000 Nevada students afford a Nevada college education. The brainchild of the late Governor Kenny Guinn, it remains a lifeline of learning for thousands of young Nevadans.
Gibbons: "It matters a lot to students standing with me today - and the 20,000 students who have higher degrees because of this extraordinary program."
Conservative Radio show host Bill Manders asked Angle during the 2006 Republican primary: "Let me ask this question real quick here...yes or no..all three of you....beginning with you Sharron...the Millennium Scholarship - keep it or lose it?"
Angle: "Lose it."
Angle was campaigning against Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Dawn Gibbons for a seat in Congress.
But it's an answer out of context, according to the Angle campaign. It says education is a top priority for Angle, a former teacher.
Angle voted in favor of the Millennium Scholarship in 1999, and supported it again in 2001.
In 2005, she voted no. Why? According to Campaign Spokesperson Jarrod Agen:
"Her concern developed later due to the potential of non-citizens having access to the scholarship funds, and whether taxpayers would have to take up the bill for the program if the revenue from the tobacco lawsuit fell short."
That nuance was missing today on the UNLV campus where Gibbons supported Reid.
Student Alex Gill: "November second I'll be voting for Harry Reid."
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Nevada’s former 1st lady stumps for Reid
My News 4, 9/2/10 - Today a prominent Republican for Reid went before the microphones to hammer her former Republican colleague over education.
These Millennium Scholarship success stories left little doubt:
Brittany Breeler: "Sharron Angle's plan is just too dangerous for Nevada students."
Warren Dang: She's way too extreme and dangerous for Nevada."
Mark Triola: "In Sharron Angle's Nevada there would be no Millennium Scholarship."
And if that didn't drive home the point, then the reason the Reid camp staged the event, did.
Former First Lady Dawn Gibbons, a Republican - made her first public campaign appearance Wednesday in favor of Democrat Harry Reid.
Gibbons: "He loves his state and the citizens he represents; he cares about the Nevada of today and that of the future."
Gibbons and Angle are no strangers. They served together in the Nevada Assembly, and ran against each other four years ago in a Republican primary for Congress.
Gibbons: "That's when I began to get a glimpse of one of Sharron Angle's more damaging ideas: killing the Millennium Scholarship."
The scholarship was funded by Nevada's share of the huge settlement with tobacco companies. It has helped more than 20,000 Nevada students afford a Nevada college education. The brainchild of the late Governor Kenny Guinn, it remains a lifeline of learning for thousands of young Nevadans.
Gibbons: "It matters a lot to students standing with me today - and the 20,000 students who have higher degrees because of this extraordinary program."
Conservative Radio show host Bill Manders asked Angle during the 2006 Republican primary: "Let me ask this question real quick here...yes or no..all three of you....beginning with you Sharron...the Millennium Scholarship - keep it or lose it?"
Angle: "Lose it."
Angle was campaigning against Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Dawn Gibbons for a seat in Congress.
But it's an answer out of context, according to the Angle campaign. It says education is a top priority for Angle, a former teacher.
Angle voted in favor of the Millennium Scholarship in 1999, and supported it again in 2001.
In 2005, she voted no. Why? According to Campaign Spokesperson Jarrod Agen:
"Her concern developed later due to the potential of non-citizens having access to the scholarship funds, and whether taxpayers would have to take up the bill for the program if the revenue from the tobacco lawsuit fell short."
That nuance was missing today on the UNLV campus where Gibbons supported Reid.
Student Alex Gill: "November second I'll be voting for Harry Reid."
Read the whole article
