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Challenging Porter
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Aug 28, 2003 12:10pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 28, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two years ago, the political world in Las Vegas was an entirely different place.
People were already upset at the Legislature, but not over taxes; a special session called to draw new district lines was drawing voter ire.
Nobody was under investigation/indictment/suspicion/a dark cloud because of a federal investigation into corruption in local government. In those heady days, nobody in local office cared about the difference between a "target" and a "subject" of an FBI probe.
And former Clark County Commissioner Dario Herrera was the Democrats' golden boy, a man with a political future that didn't require him to change his name and move out of Nevada to a non-extradition country.
But those days are gone forever, and we should just let them go.
As everyone knows, Herrera's campaign imploded, and former state Sen. Jon Porter handily won the newly drawn 3rd Congressional District, where Republicans and Democrats are almost evenly divided.
And after two innocuous years in Washigton, Porter now finds himself facing every freshman congressman's great challenge, the first re-election. His margin of victory over Herrera was huge -- nearly 19 pecentage points. But that was a special case, and now Porter may find himself facing a much more electable Democrat.
Rumors of who's running in the 3rd Congressional District are almost as entertaining as guessing whether U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons will run against U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. In fact, some Democrats say Gibbons' decision has some import in the 3rd District. If Gibbons runs, the Reid Machine will be hitting on all cylinders, and anyone on the ticket who's a Democrat will benefit; but if Reid faces a lesser challenger, the temptation will be to conserve resources, and thus let wind out of Democratic sails down the ballot.
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