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Nevada’s best known political talking head, John Ralston, pokes fun at Nevada Congressman Dean Heller for sending this letter to Speaker Pelosi.

Ralston calls it an

“I really don’t care if you read this but I hope the media picks up on it or someone posts it on a blog” letter

If blog recognition was the primary motivation, “mission accomplished” since both John and I have now made note.

It would be nice to think Dean Heller actually meant what he wrote, but he would do better to form a coalition of outspoken opposition and have them all sign a letter and/or hold a Meeting on the Steps.  (And alert the media and the blogosphere, of course.)

The coalition could start their press conference by stating that Nancy Pelosi refuses to meet with them to discuss the death of the secret ballot and coerced unionization through Card Check.

Or was that the idea?

Congressman Heller?

A reader emailed and asked why I didn’t say anything about today being Primary Day in Nevada.  The short answer is I didn’t think readers outside NV would care and residents here already knew about it.  Anyhoo, I just got home a little while ago and am checking the preliminary results online.

Here are a few Fun Clark County Facts while you wait for me to do that.  Clark County is NV’s largest county by population (because it contains Las Vegas).  County was created in 1908.  Total county population was 1.9 million in 2006.  We have approximately 327,000 registered Dems, 235,000 registered GOPers, and 136,000 “miscellaneous” (Independents etc.) for a total of about 697,000 registered voters.

OK, enough of that.  With 82% of the precincts and all the mail-outs in, we had about 102,000 people vote.  See all the results here.  No big surprises in the Congressional races.  I’m too tired to go through the rest of them one by one, but I will say this:

Glad to see Chad Christensen won in his Assembly race.  Glad to see Francis “the Knife” Allen did poorly in hers.  Didn’t much care whether Assemblyman Bob Beers won or lost, but know people who are glad. 

And am appalled and disgusted that Family Court Judge Del Vecchio got 20,000+ votes.  I’ve been sitting on some details I’m privy to re: Del Vecchio thinking it was all best revealed in October, but if That many people are not yet aware of the many, MANY reasons this guy should not only Not be on the bench but should be in prison…I’ll re-think the delay.

Here’s a little tip for all you aspiring extortionists:  when attempting to shake down your target, don’t paste your signed demands to his door – and don’t have the document notarized at the local UPS Store.

Send your thanks for this sage advice to former Nevada Democratic Party official and campaign consultant Michael Zahara in care of the Clark County Jail in Las Vegas, NV.  Zahara was arrested this week on charges that he tried to extort $5,250 from his former boss, Nevada Assembly candidate Sanje Sedera. 

Zahara taped a notarized letter to Sedera’s door threatening to tell Sedera’s family, business associates and family members that Sedera, a former resident of Sri Lanka, had committed mortgage and IRS fraud and was involved in “terrorist rebel activity.” 

Sedera, who has been a mortgage broker in Las Vegas since 1996 and who dropped out of the campaign to help with relief efforts in Myanmar, contacted police immediately after finding Zahara’s missive taped to his front door.  Sedera says the claims are baseless.

See more details in this Las Vegas Review Journal story.