Reid, Angle Trade Barbs in Nevada Senate Race - FOXNews

LAS VEGAS -- In a crackling campaign debate, Republican challenger Sharron Angle attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a career politician Thursday night who lives in a fashionable Washington condominium and has voted to raise taxes 300 times. The four-term veteran called his tea party-backed rival extreme and an ally of special interests.

"My opponent favors big banks, she's against Wall Street reform," Reid said, adding that her views are sympathetic to big health insurance companies.

Angle played the aggressor from the opening moments of the hour-long debate, at one point taunting the Democratic leader to "man up, Harry Reid" as she urged him to concede that Social Security faces financial difficulty.

Across a stage at a local PBS station, there was little or nothing the two agreed on -- not taxes, not health care, immigration, energy policy or federal spending.

Reid took aim at Angle's statement that it's not the job of a senator to create jobs. "What she's talking about is extreme," he said.

"Harry Reid, it's not your job to create jobs," she replied sharply. "It's your job to create policy" that leads to the creation of jobs.

With their debate, Reid and his challenger shared a local stage and a national spotlight, the only joint appearance of a campaign pitting the embodiment of the Democratic establishment against a challenger who was little known outside Nevada before winning the nomination in an upset.

For Angle, a 61-year-old former state lawmaker, the encounter was a chance to counter Reid's months-long attack on her as an extremist who is bent on destroying Social Security and other government programs.

For Reid, 70 and seeking a fifth Senate term, it marked an opportunity to persuade skeptical constituents that he deserves re-election at a time when unemployment in Nevada, at 14.4 percent, is the highest in the country.

The two rivals had a quiet, private word in the moments before the debate began and shook hands and exchanged pleasantries once it had ended. In between, she frequently looked at Reid when it was his turn to speak.

The debate unfolded at a particularly critical moment in their race, with early voting set to begin over the weekend and polls showing an extremely tight contest.

Under the debate ground rules, moderator Mitch Fox posed questions to the candidates by turn, and at one point, asked Angle the same question twice after she sidestepped when asked if health insurance companies should be bound by any coverage mandates.

"The solutions to the health care insurance cost problems are simple and they reside within the free market," she said.

Reid pounced on her reply.

"Insurance companies don't do things out of the goodness of their heart; they do it because of the profit motive," he said. "We need them to be forced into" covering mammograms, colonoscopies and other tests, as well as autism and other conditions.

Angle's reference to Reid's Washington condominium appeared part of a campaign-long effort to make him look like he has lost touch with the state that he has represented in Congress for decades.

She returned to the same theme nearly an hour later, much more pointedly, when she said he had gone into public service with little money and now was among the wealthiest men in the Senate.

"How did you become so wealthy on a government payroll?" she asked accusingly.

As he had at other points, Reid said Angle had her facts wrong. He said he had practiced law before entering politics, had been successful at it and has managed his investments well in the years since.

Both candidates unveiled new television attack ads in the hours leading up to the debate.

Previewing her attack in the debate's opening moments, Angle's commercial Reid, saying he has voted to raise taxes more than 300 times.

Reid's ad called Angle a "wild" legislator who would force pregnant rape victims to give birth and dismantle Social Security.

Former President Bill Clinton campaigned with Reid earlier in the week and urged voters not to take their anger over the economy out on the four-term senator.

But Angle jolted Democrats in the state and in Washington when her campaign announced it had raised $14 million in the three months ending Sept. 30, a staggering sum that reflects her rise to prominence as the Republican challenger to the Senate's top Democrat.

Democrats responded by noting that Angle had not disclosed how much of the money she had remaining in her campaign treasury, suggesting she had already spent most of what she reported raising. But at the same time, Reid rushed out a fundraising appeal that said Angle's surge in donations meant she might be able to swamp him on television in the campaign's final days.

The antagonism between the two sides has also spilled over into the streets.

Police said they had issued summonses to two men after an Angle supporter dressed in a sheep costume taunted one of Reid's backers during Clinton's appearance.

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US Senate leader calls for Nevada foreclosure halt - Reuters

* Reid letter sent to largest mortgage servicers

* Call comes as Obama sends back foreclosure-friendly bill

* Reid in tough race for re-election, Nevada hard-hit (Adds comments from Reid, background on foreclosure problems)

By Corbett B. Daly

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called for the largest mortgage servicers to suspend foreclosures in hard-hit Nevada.

"I write to request that your mortgage-servicing division suspend foreclosures on Nevada homeowners until systems are in place to ensure Nevadans are not being improperly directed into foreclosure proceedings," Reid, a Nevada Democrat, wrote in a letter to the companies, which he did not specifically name.

So far, Ally Financial Inc's GMAC Mortgage, JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N and Bank of America (BAC.N) have announced that they are suspending some of their foreclosures to review whether they have been conducting them properly.

Reid released his letter on Thursday, shortly after President Barack Obama announced his opposition to a bill passed by Congress that could have made it more difficult for homeowners to challenge unjustified foreclosure actions. Obama said he would send the measure back to the House of Representatives in a procedure called a "pocket veto."

The bill, which passed the Senate unanimously, would have required courts to accept all out-of-state notarizations, including those stamped en masse by computers in a practice that critics say has been improperly used to expedite foreclosure orders.

False notarizations figured in disclosures that Ally Financial, JPMorgan and other big mortgage processors filed false affidavits in thousands of cases, part of the the wave of foreclosures that followed the financial crisis.

Reid is in tough race for re-election in Nevada, which holds the nation's record in jobless and foreclosure rates.

Reid noted that some servicers have halted foreclosure in the 23 states that have judicial foreclosure proceedings.

"While Nevada is not among those states, suspending foreclosures on Nevadans is also justified because the reports of shoddy and defective affidavit preparation suggest that servicers might not be reviewing a home owner's loan documents with the requisite care," Reid said in his statement. (Reporting by Corbett Daly; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

Presently Senator Reid is posturing, to suddenly represent the enigma of bank fraud and foreclosures. We must however look to the immediate future and the damage Reid and his cohorts can do to our fragile economy.In the new session of Congress–Lame Duck or not–Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) will focus the Senate to enacting Sen. Robert Menendez,( D-NJ).law; a crippling blow to the 15 million out of work Americans by passing immigration Reform Package. If he has adequate votes this Liberal Senator clothed as a Democrat, will crack his whip and bring to the table another Amnesty by any other name. Stealthily hidden in the bill will not–ONLY–contain the Dream Act, but Agjobs attachment law for more Guest Workers for farms, by giving some structure of mass Amnesty. Since the 1986 Amnesty at least 3-4 million low income workers got their legal immigration papers and then determined that they could bring in immediate family members under Family Unification laws. As legal residents they could sponsor family members as long as the affidavit of financial support was signed. In many cases this became a game of fraud, as soon after this obligation was dropped and family members ended up in the welfare line.

Chain Migration refers to the unceasing and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are permitted to immigrate because the law allows citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their absolute, non-nuclear family members. According to FAIRS quote “In 2001, the United States admitted 1,064,318 immigrants–enough people to create a major city the size of Chicago” In 1986 between 1.34 and 2.66 million illegal immigrants in the country who could qualify for immediate legality. Philip Martin, a professor at the University of California at Davis and one of the leading experts on the IRCA program, described the 1986 bill as “rife with fraud.”5 In total, nearly 1.1 million illegal’s received amnesty under SAW, even though there were only an estimated 400,000 eligible. This implies 700,000 fraudulent legalizations. Somewhere between 4 and 5 million people gained entry under this bill.

If we believe the numbers of foreign nationals domiciled in the US by government mouthpieces–there are 11 million and shrinking? In a previous count the Census Bureau has also developed estimates of its own. There assessment at the time of the 2000 Census suggests that the illegal immigration population was about 8 million. We are now Ten years ahead-so how can the administration estimate only 12 million? Create some kind of estimate yourself and give a conservative figure of family members brought here through family unification? Do we really want to be overpopulated? Our highways cannot handle the traffic now. Water shortages, energy disruption and loss of environment open land. Farmland disappearing. Even now water is in short supply in California and other border states. How will we keep up with supplying food to this sized population?

In Nov. 6, 1986 Because of their low education levels, illegal immigrants have a poverty rate that is roughly twice that of native-born Americans and therefore the majority will become public charges. The Immigration Reform and Control Act were passed by Congress in order to stop illegal immigration from Mexico, seen as a threat to the economy. Many members of Congress felt immigration was “out of control” because legal and illegal immigration had come to account for approximately thirty to fifty percent of U.S. population growth. The 1986 bill criminalizes the act of knowingly hiring an undocumented worker (in an unsuccessful attempt to reduce illegal immigration) as Businesses ignored the law and the government’s failure to enforce the laws so the numbers have grown all out of proportion..

Many foreigners are competing with Citizens and legal residents as cheap labor exploited by farms, businesses, the construction industry, factories, services and entertainment commerce. Millions have now materialized in the blue and white collar jobs that should be in the hands of the jobless Americans. Thousands of contractors have sewed their own demise by using cheap labor, dropping wages and the quality of work. Isn’t it time we decide who will push the overall public agenda for a decent future for our families and grandchildren, and not seek to gain votes in future elections by pandering to the major minority population as the Liberals are? One problem being legal households also gives refuge to an illegal alien family member and there are thousands of fraudulent cases of a legal brother loaning his Social Security number to an uncle or Aunt. Even a child given instant citizenship under the 14th Amendment Social Security number is not sacred, as the card is utilized by another in the family circle.

The Democratic leadership including Sen. Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and Speaker Pelosi do not seem to understand the relative difference in an individual who came to America legally and followed the processing as real immigrants do, if they wish to settle in this great country of ours? The new Tea Party candidates for Congress believe in the “Rule of Law” and understand you cannot cut corners to reside here in the US, and that changing the laws is pandering to millions of illegal aliens who ignored the laws and thought nothing in sliding past the border guards or lying about their true intentions when hoping on a plane. Only the Liberal extremists and the majority of Democrats see this as not a contravention of our laws and are willing to overlook, what to them is a minor civil infraction. Why have Democrats and a few in the GOP gutted the real border fence? Why has ICE director John Holder not arresting every illegal alien to be deported or imprisoned?

Why is California’s Sen. Boxer voted–YES–to supplying funds to Sanctuary Cities or not limiting welfare to illegal aliens? Both politicians are responsible for pressing –ONE-for ENGLISH. Why did Sen. Harry Reid try to table E-Verify, giving fewer accesses of jobs to legitimate US workers and only make the law to extract illegal workers voluntary? Choose who you vote for very cautiously, because returning Sen. Reid, Boxer, Pelosi, Napolitano to Washington. ALL INCUMBENTS MUST GO. ANTICIPATE IN STATES WITH A CLOSE RACE, DEMOCRAT ORIENTED LIBERAL modus operandi:have been known to overlook illegal aliens voting for their Pride and Joy? ABSENTEE BALLOTS SHOULD BE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN. Any new Lib-Dem will certainly bring down another giant amnesty that is like a tree, with very costly hidden roots; that will be digging into your payroll check for extra taxes.Billions of dollars could easily turn into a trillion in public welfare? The Tea Party is extremely conscious that neither party can be trusted in most instances to serve the American people. Democrats are looking for potential future votes and Republicans are looking out for a continuous pipeline of discount labor.

Tea Party activists have their own agenda, to suppress the plans in Washington of both parties. To shrink government and return dignity to the middle class and good paying jobs to all Americans. Tea party candidates are not beholden to Sen. Reid or Minority speaker John Boehner and any associates and will not bend to the will of Washington elites. Both parties must be held accountable and those who ignore the new course for the people will be removed from office as many incumbents will be this November. Give Tea Party candidates a chance to prove their worth and not listen to the same old, tired rhetoric of the usual, entrenched politicians. Even new Tea Party candidates must abide by the rules of the American people, as they are not immune from losing their seat.

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