Harry Reid won't help doomed Democrat's bid for governor

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that he won't waste his time raising money for Democrat Bob Goodman's unlikely bid to unseat Nevada's hugely popular Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval in November.

The Nevada Democrat also said Sandoval's current high level of support is due in large part to an improving economy and wouldn't necessarily carry over to a U.S. Senate race should Sandoval decide to leave midterm and challenge Reid when he seeks re-election to a sixth term in 2016.

Goodman, 75, a relative political unknown who directed Nevada's Department of Tourism and Economic Development in the 1970s, won the nomination in a June primary against seven other candidates. But he did so with only 25 percent of the vote, compared to 30 percent for "none of these candidates."

Reid said he tried but failed to persuade better-known Democrats to enter the race. He told reporters at his office in Reno on Monday that Goodman's campaign telephoned him a few days ago to ask if he would participate in a fundraiser, but, "I said no."

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/aug/18/reid-wont-help-doomed-democrats-bid-governor/

[Delver Rootnose]

1. Another reason....

....to respect Reid as a democrat. /sarcasm.

[agbdf]

2. This is troubling to say the least

That a State's senior Senator won't support our party's nominee for Governor in his own state is distressing from me. I am disappointed in Harry.

[The Stranger]

15. Harry Reid sucks shit.

He didn't have to publicly disavow another Democrat.

He could have kept his fucking mouth shut.

But then he wouldn't be Harry Reid, would he?

[7962]

3. If "none of these candidates" won, then how come Goodman gets the nod?

Shouldnt they have run another group for the office? If not, whats the point of having "none" as an option?

[bluestateguy]

4. Nor should he

Goodman is a Mondale.

[Botany]

5. Just like Reid refused to help in 2004 after w cheated in Ohio to steal the election from Kerry*

* Reid is on record for saying that Kerry did the right thing in not making a stink
about Ohio's 2004 outcome.

Even if the man has no chance to win Reid owes it all the people who voted and worked for
him to support the party's nominee.

[Jake Stern]

6. So it IS okay to bail on your party's nominee after all nt

[bbgrunt]

7. ironic that the leading congressional democrat

can so easily dismiss one of their own and yet expect party loyalty from voters.

[Jake Stern]

11. "Vote for the party's nominee, no matter who they are!"

unless you're a party leader, then it's groovy to give a candidate the finger.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. It's like when the DEMS abandoned TX to the GOP. "Just too hard. Don't want to rock the boat. Don't

want to be seen as "partisan."


G-ddamn Democratic complicity!

[Paladin]

12. +1000. Welcome to present-day, cut-and-run Democratic strategy.

Now maybe some of you are starting to understand why so many Texas Democrats don't give any money to the national party, myself very much included.....

[cstanleytech]

14. The reason the dems lost so many states though is the gop focused on small local elections

for decades thus they eventually were able to gerrymander the districts in their favor.
Only way the dems will really be able to counter that is to start focusing more on the smaller local elections as well and until they do the republicans will largely remain in power.

[Punkingal]

9. This isn't news...it's business as usual for Reid.

I lived in Nevada for 9 years...he doesn't help anyone. He's too afraid someone might rival him for control of everything in Nevada. Remember when he shafted Jimmy Carter's campaign a few years ago?

[No Vested Interest]

10. Reid could at least come out and support the state Dem ticket as a whole.

If the candidate for Governor is not a good candidate, he/she can bring down the whole ticket, and a lot of bad things flow from that, as we're all finding out now in various states.

[cstanleytech]

13. I dont believe its an issue of the candidate not being a good one rather the math

supports the incumbent.

[brooklynite]

16. interesting that Reid is coming to NYC to help Natalie Tennant raise money...

...I'd say that's just as much a long-shot.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

17. Nader's fault!

...

[woo me with science]

18. Here we go again. The careful work of corporate Democrats.