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Who Is Jon Scott Ashjian?

Posted on | March 11, 2010 | 11 Comments

We know that he owes $200,000 in back taxes. We know that his “Tea Party” candidacy is Harry Reid’s only hope for re-election. There are many questions being asked in Nevada:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is facing Republican accusations that he’s behind the emergence of a third-party Tea Party candidate on the ballot who could divide conservative voters and help him win reelection this fall.
The charge against Jon Scott Ashjian is being led by his would-be GOP opponents, such as Danny Tarkanian, who accuses him of having weak tea party ties. “Nobody in the Tea Party knows who he is. He didn’t know any of the principles of the Tea Party,” Tarkanian told [CNN].
GOP primary field leader Sue Lowden, a former Nevada Republican Party chairman who calls herself a Tea Party voter, also questioned Ashjian’s tea party bona fides. “I don’t know who this person is. He’s never been involved with anything that I’m aware of in this state,” she told CNN.

Gee, it seems like the only person who’s not questioning Ashjian’s credibility is . . . Harry Reid.

However much we know about Ashjian, I don’t think we know enough yet. The Tea Party Express will be in Las Vegas March 27.

IYKWIMAITYD.

Category: Election, Harry Reid, Nevada, Senate, Shoe Leather Fund, Tea Party

Comments

11 Responses to “Who Is Jon Scott Ashjian?”

  1. Joe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:33 pm

    Loser!

  2. Joe
    March 11th, 2010 @ 1:33 pm

    Loser!

  3. Largebill
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:08 pm

    Makes you wonder how much the Tea Party will end up helping the left in November. The Dems have a vested interest in three way races. I support the general ideals of the tea party movement, but am not sure running candidates is such a great idea. Might be better off endorsing one of the major party candidates.

  4. Largebill
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:08 pm

    Makes you wonder how much the Tea Party will end up helping the left in November. The Dems have a vested interest in three way races. I support the general ideals of the tea party movement, but am not sure running candidates is such a great idea. Might be better off endorsing one of the major party candidates.

  5. Free-range Oyster
    March 11th, 2010 @ 7:13 pm

    Largebill- this is what they have generally been doing. This is the only outsider “Tea Party” candidate I have heard of, and he looks quite likely to be an intentional spoiler. The Tea Party has been talking all along about seizing control of the process, not splitting our forces. Thus the surge of Partiers getting in at the local level for precincts and caucuses.

  6. Free-range Oyster
    March 11th, 2010 @ 2:13 pm

    Largebill- this is what they have generally been doing. This is the only outsider “Tea Party” candidate I have heard of, and he looks quite likely to be an intentional spoiler. The Tea Party has been talking all along about seizing control of the process, not splitting our forces. Thus the surge of Partiers getting in at the local level for precincts and caucuses.

  7. McGehee
    March 11th, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

    Makes you wonder how much the Tea Party will end up helping the left in November.

    Not me. I remember the Perot debacle of 1992 and there is nothing Perot-like about the tea party movement.

    Nor could there be — to a great extent the Perot bandwagon’s popularity was media driven and thus embarrassingly ignorant due to the lack of alternative information sources.

    In 2010, not so much.

  8. McGehee
    March 11th, 2010 @ 8:31 pm

    Makes you wonder how much the Tea Party will end up helping the left in November.

    Not me. I remember the Perot debacle of 1992 and there is nothing Perot-like about the tea party movement.

    Nor could there be — to a great extent the Perot bandwagon’s popularity was media driven and thus embarrassingly ignorant due to the lack of alternative information sources.

    In 2010, not so much.

  9. kansas
    March 11th, 2010 @ 11:54 pm

    Any Tea Party candidate in the general will only help Democrats. Tea Party Candidates need to be Tea Party Republicans.

  10. kansas
    March 11th, 2010 @ 6:54 pm

    Any Tea Party candidate in the general will only help Democrats. Tea Party Candidates need to be Tea Party Republicans.

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