Breaking: In Wake of Taping, Ashjians Tea Party of Nevada Chairman to Resign, Endorse Angle
Posted by Ron Futrell Oct 4th 2010 at 7:27 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Tea Parties | Comments (36) While Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have been going toe to toe (they are tied in the polls) there is a Tea Party of Nevada candidate, Scott Ashjian, who wants his 15 minutes of fame. The problem for Angle is that Ashjians 15 minutes of fame could cost her the race.
Scott Ashjian
There was no Tea Party of Nevada until Ashjian created it and the media relished the novelty. He has never been to a Tea Party event and has not been endorsed by any Tea Party out there so the left loves that he could help give Reid six more years in the U.S. Senate by people mistakenly voting for the Tea Party candidate. Speculation has it that Reid is behind Ashjians candidacy, but that has not been proven. All Ashjian can do in this race is save Harry Reid. Certainly nobody with any real Tea Party affiliation would ever want that to happen.
Now there are the audio tapes.
The Chairman of the Tea Party of Nevada, Syd James (it is basically a party of two), arranged a meeting with the Angle camp under the premise that Ashjian would drop out and endorse Angle (Ashjians name would still be on the ballot). Ashjian has claimed that it was Angle who arranged the meeting, but James assures me that it he arranged it and hes sorry he did.
Ashjian wore a wire into the meeting and covertly taped the conversation with Angle. James said he had no idea that the meeting was taped and wouldve never done it had he known Ashjian was going to tape it. If you listen to the tapes, understand their surreptitious nature and understand the context was that Angle thought Ashjian had come bearing gifts of an endorsement. If Angle made a mistake it was trusting Ashjian, but since James arranged the meeting, the Angle camp was trusting James, who is a highly respected doctor in Las Vegas.
As a result, James feels used by Ashjian and has told me he will resign from his position with the Tea Party of Nevada and endorse Angle. Whens the last time you heard of the head of one political party (if you want to call the Tea Party of Nevada a party) resigning to endorse another partys candidate less than a month before the election? (more
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