Sharron Angles real webpage
The Atlantic, 7/1/10 - After winning her Republican primary, Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle completely revamped her old website, turning it into a one-page site (plus contribution form) encouraging people to donate. Now that she's reached her $1 million fundraising goal, the new SharrronAngle.com is up and running. It is far spiffier than the last version.
The "issues" page has gotten a drastic makeover as well, and Angle has removed, changed, or re-spun all of her controversial views. The difference is striking.
And, somehow, the old version is no longer available via Google in cached form, as her old homepage still is. (Luckily, The Huffington Post's Sam Stein, has saved a copy of Angle's old site.)
Her old page expressed her support for abolishing the Department of Education, phasing out Social Security, and repealing offshore drilling regulations. The new site contains no reference to the Department of Education; the first sentence of her "Social Security" section reads, "We must keep the promise of Social Security by redeeming the "IOU's" that have been written..."; her "Energy Policy" section begins, "America's policy should be to enforce the rules and regulations currently on the books with respect to off shore drilling" and calls BP's spill an "indictment" of the Minerals Management Service and an indication of BP's "high risk approach."
To be fair, some of these are very obviously consistent with her views. Particularly on Social Security, Angle never (to my limited knowledge) advocated for ending the program right now--she's always suggested paying those IOUs and simply not enrolling younger generations.
But the difference is notable, and it is obviously the product of some more glossy political strategic thinking.
Reid Campaign Re-Launches Sharron Angle’s Campaign Website
LAS VEGAS – Seeking to hide her extreme and dangerous agenda from Nevada voters, Sharron Angle today removed more than 75% of the contents of the “issues” section of her webpage – deleting all references to her true positions on issues like eliminating Social Security and her plan to make Yucca Mountain into a haven for America’s nuclear waste. Angle has also removed controversial endorsements like the 'Birther' PAC Declaration Alliance that she had proudly touted in the past. Apparently Angle and her new handlers think that scrubbing her website will make voters forget about her long-documented, radical positions.
Fortunately for voters seeking a true window into Angle’s real positions, a "new" website will allow them to view her dangerous and radical ideas – the ones she has espoused consistently for decades before her new handlers deemed them too radical. (Original typos included.)
View Angle’s real, pre-scrubbed website here: www.TheRealSharronAngle.com resurrects Angle’s original website featuring her dangerous and extreme agenda, before her handlers scrubbed it
“Sharron Angle thinks she can fool Nevada voters about her extreme and dangerous agenda to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, abolish the Department of Education, shut down the EPA and the DOE in the middle of the worst environmental crisis in our history, and end regulatory oversight of Wall Street and big oil companies like BP,” said Reid campaign communications director Kelly Steele. “Obviously, Sharron Angle’s new handlers are as alarmed by the prospect of promoting Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada as most mainstream voters will be when they learn her true views.”
Fortunately for voters seeking a true window into Angle’s real positions, a "new" website will allow them to view her dangerous and radical ideas – the ones she has espoused consistently for decades before her new handlers deemed them too radical. (Original typos included.)
View Angle’s real, pre-scrubbed website here: www.TheRealSharronAngle.com resurrects Angle’s original website featuring her dangerous and extreme agenda, before her handlers scrubbed it
“Sharron Angle thinks she can fool Nevada voters about her extreme and dangerous agenda to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, abolish the Department of Education, shut down the EPA and the DOE in the middle of the worst environmental crisis in our history, and end regulatory oversight of Wall Street and big oil companies like BP,” said Reid campaign communications director Kelly Steele. “Obviously, Sharron Angle’s new handlers are as alarmed by the prospect of promoting Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada as most mainstream voters will be when they learn her true views.”
Sharron Angle is so far right, it’s just plain wrong
It's this season's hottest new trend: Republicans nominating candidates so far to the right, they're practically falling off the map.You might be familiar with Rand Paul, the Kentucky candidate who went so far as to question the Civil Rights Act.
Well, meet Sharron Angle. She's the newly-minted Republican nominee to run against Senator Reid - and she makes Rand Paul look like a reasoned moderate.
Click here to help us beat back Sharron Angle and her Tea Party pals in California.
Sharron Angle is so far right, it's just plain wrong:
- She wants to repeal health care reform and let insurance companies run wild, kicking hundreds of thousands of Nevadans to the curb and making it possible for insurers to deny care to sick kids.
- She thinks the solution to Wall Street's colossal failure is to give the big banks more freedom to destroy our economy and rip off Nevada families with their risky schemes.
- She wants to cut Social Security benefits to fund more tax cuts for multi-millionaires, devastating Nevada Seniors.
- She doesn't even believe that climate change is caused by humans...yes, really.
Of course, Sharron Angle's record shows that she's not just too radical for Nevada - she's not much of a legislator. She was selected as the worst of 11 freshman assembly members, earning a D+ in a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Even her colleagues call her "wacky" - maybe because she proposes things like giving massages to prisoners.
But that won't stop national Republicans from putting everything they have into a nasty smear campaign to beat Senator Reid and put this arch-conservative in the Senate. Let's show them that Nevada is no place for radicals like Sharron Angle.
Yours truly,
-Brandon
Brandon Hall
Campaign Manager
Friends for Harry Reid
P.S. - Oh, did I mention that, in addition to opposing health care and Wall St. reform and supporting the privatization of Social Security, Sharron Angle supports shipping nuclear waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain? Republicans and their new Tea Party overlords really found a gem this time - let's show them we're standing with Senator Reid. Make a contribution today!
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